The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-02-12

THE SHOOTING OF Rev. MIR. MAHoE.-Mr. Ran
dolph, residing in the Gilbert group, sends US the
following statement regarding the shooting Of Rev.
Mr.. Mahoe, a Hawaiian missionary at Apaiang, one
of the islands of the Gilbert group
Among the people who now hold possession of this
island there is no central government. They are
divided into clans, and ruled by chiefs. If a man
should ofend his chief he seeks protection under an
other chief. and by him is shielded from the anger Of
the chief whom he may have offended.
From the time that the Norman Star left Apai-
ang. in 1868, the missionaries were kept in a con-
tinual state of excitement, being insulted more or
less every day by the natives. On the 18th day Of
December, 1868, Mahoe and his wife were assaulted
by a native named Tinkinimea. This man struck
Mahoe, and then turning around did the same to
Mrs. Mahoe, while she stood holding a child in her
arms. He then walked off as if he had done a great
deed. After this the people became more bold and
i%mpudent.
On the 18th of March, 1869, while Mahoe was
husking a cocoanut, being in a STOPPING position, a
man by name Tenaught coming up behind him,
struck his back with a fourteen-inch knife, leaving a
black bruise as long as the blade of the knife, draw
ing blood at the edge and point of the knife. Ten
augat said to Mahoe as he struck him, You
are no good you are stingy.'' Another man then
persuaded Tenaught to let Mahoe alone. A few days
previous to this Tenaught had threatened to kill
Mahoe, because he would not give him something
which he had demanded in an insolent manner.
On the Goth of March, 1863, Maboe was again
assaulted in his own house. His wife s~upposing he
would be killed, fed for help, with her youngest
child, to the house of Mr.. Courie, a distance of some
FIVE hundred yards to the north OF the mission
premises. Mr.. Randolph being asleep in his own
house, was aroused by a man named Solomon. from
the Island of Ratama, sent by Mr.. Courie for that
purpose. He with Mr.. Courie went to the aid of
Mahoe. They found that the mission house had
been shot at one of the balls passing through a
post of the verandah on the northwest corner OF the
house, tore away the wood work by the side of
Mahoe, who was standing on the yerandah. MahOe
Immediately ran into the house and shut the door.
Those without followed him, breaking down the fence
in their progress. Finding the door fast, they broke
the venetian blind sufficiently to admit a large pistol,
which they presented at MahOe, and snapped several
times. Finding, however, it did not go OFT, they
Withdrew.
Messrs. Randolph and Courie remained with Mahoe
about an hour, and then returned to their own
houses, fearing for their own families and property.
On their way they met a man by name Ilngltap,
who had a musket, rifle. and pistol. He asked them
if it was true that some one had fired at Mahoe.
They answered, yes. He said he had heard so, and
was on his way to the house of Mahoe to protect
him. As this man and his father Tinnakala had
slept at the mission on several occasions previously,
to help MahOe, they had no suspicion of treachery,
and said to him. ssWe are glad you are going down.
We will send Solomon to aid you" Leaving the
thhus uNA moving Juoh nv ~ SHN N"'
Courie, where Mrs. MahOe was, they heard a report
of firearms and a cry of distress. They rushed from
the house, and ran for the mission. Here they met
the two little daughters of Mahoe, who were crying
~pitifully, Father is shot-father is shot-he is
dead-he is covered with blood. Tingitap has shot
him." Approaching the house. they found Mahoe
in a pool of blood by the north fence, having tainted.
Ten minutes perhaps after they arrived Mahoe be-
came conscious of their presence and called each by
name /; said Tingitap had shot him asked if he
would probably die begged them to take care of
his children, and again tainted. In the course of
FIVE minutes he again revived, and two men, with
the assistance of three women, lifted him up and
carried him into the house. On examination they
found that a ball had entered the right breast just
below the collar-bone, and came out of his back just
below the shoulder-blade The ball then struck a
panel of the house to which the clock was fastened.
The conclusion stopped the clock at five minutes be-
fore II o'clock. About 8 o'clock on Sunday morn
ing, March Dist, they had him removed to the house
of Mr.. Randolph, where he remained with his family
till the arrival of the Morning Star, on the 9Th OF
August, 1869. The natives Immediately commenced
plundering and breaking up the house. Mr.. Ran
dolph also began to remove the movable property of
most value from the mission premises to his own
house.