Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-04-09

sentence ON polua.
SECOND DAY
The Commtte met again lis 10y appointment ON
SATURDAY, at 10 H. NJ. at the Chambers Of the Chief
Justice.
The examinations aud Inquiries were directed as
ON the former ctsion to obtain all the informn-
ton possible which might tend to influence the
Committee to recommend the condemned man
In addition TO the evidence taken Mr. A. $ Hart
we'll offered to- submit To the Committee u resume
of recent legal authorities bearing on the evil
dcnces or Prescriptions Of insanity of persons at
tempting suicide, which the Committee sgnifed
they would be pleased to receive from him.
Father Raymond de la Landc Read written
statement which he filed with the Committee.
Polua told me. that his wife had frequently pro
yoked him to wrath. That he could not bear with
her any longer. He told me TINT he was intoSi-
Gated. That he had drank three glasses of liquor.
and was hikuku This was at the time when he
went 20 commit the deed. He said she had pro
missed TO have intercourse with no other person.
He said that he had wife living. hut was living
npart from her. | Polua for the first time
early III March, i'll prison. He IL a quiet and
thoughtful man. He is not like the most of his
countrymen, now is penitent. Mi ! have learned
of him il from himself. He Is willing to die.
Rev II. H. Parker Live in Honolulu. Have
seen Polua several times i'll Oahu Prison. Went
as a clergyman. He gave somewhat OF the history
of his life. That he lived in Honolulu about III
wears then went to Hamakun, Hawaii - from
thence went to kau where he made the acquaint-'
anCe of the woman whom he killed; then went to
Puma then returned to knu, then lived again with
her; finally she left him and went to live with
another man Said he killed her because he was
enraged with her he went to the house and met
her and the man at the door and killed her he
then tried to take his life and thought he had
succeeded, but doctor sewed mp his wounds:
when he found that he would live he was relieved;
said that she desecrated his own house; SAID she
inered and insulted HIM He made these state
men,s on my first visit to him some months ago
he did not say he was insane when he committed
the crime. have visited him at least hve times
talked with him at length he showed no signs OF
ms nty; he said he overcome with passion
when he did the deed "UG pnvi az Ia ponh.'
He did not say he was under the influence OF IL
auor at the time he said he WAS responsible for
the crime he very serious. The last time L
saw him WAS the day when he was reprieved; the
time previous he said he deserved the punishment.
| have seen Hawaiians many times do strange
things, which to might seem strange like
this. but his sounduess of mind WIS unclouded
said he made preparations for the murder sad
he cut his fin gers accident lilly, think he said he
did SO while sharpening the knife. he was not
married to the woman he killed she had told him
that she had lived with other men he did not say
he had been drinking he told very clear story
and seemed to have II very clear recollection of
the circumstance.
DR.. X. McKibbin, Physician and Surgeon: Saw
Pulua at Oahu prison day before yesterday at re-
quest of Committee. had long conversation with
hir, mostly in Hawaiian. Am acquainted with
Hawaiian language made inquiries OF the Keepers
of the prison. Malaihi, n Constable and MIL yfe-
they said he was the same when he came
in. They said he had no headache, no fever, ate
we'll and slept well . | then repeated the questions
to him he confirmed those answers: he said he
had been we'll, just the stme as now he said that
he had had some trouble ut Waikapu, had been
brought up for AN assault and been imprisoned for
three years said lately he had lived awhile at
Hamakua, said he was married, that his wife was
living with another man at Hamakua. He said he
had been living year and eight months with the
exception of one month"; with the woman now de-
ceased she followed him to Kau he said that up
to a short time before this unfortunate occur
he and she had lived together on the best of
terms; that lately he suspected her hdellty, she
lived with n teauister and she did not take of
him formerly one day he SAW this man leaving
his (Polua'sl room through an opening he went
with him aud talked very insultingly to him,
(Polu y and made him very angry Shortly after
he saw her walking between two men holding their
hands and passed him, jeering at and haunting
him this made him very angry; when he went To
his work he was brooding over It; when ne came
home from his work she was not at home, but was
at the house of the other man, about a chain OH !;
he became still incensed and went and got a bot.
tie of okoiehdO from which lac drank some SAID
he then had made up his mind to kill her said he
bought knife because he had none III the house
to cut beef with told him had seen u knife
similar to the one he used, and 1t was not such n
one he used for domestic purposes and was told
hu sharpened the back of it. What did you do
that forI didn't you do it to kill the woman? He
said yes. My impression is that he said he bought
it before drinking the liquor and that he had
made up his mind to kill the woman before drink
ing he said he picked up the club in the carpenter
before the window Of his room and put up some
pieces of Grape about the room. He said he hung
up the dress To prevent them from seeing through
the window what he was going to do, then he went
10 the house where the woman WAS; and waited a
minute or two till she came out with a saucepan,
the man with her ON the other side of the pam
he then struck at the woman struck at the back OF
the neck, she fell her side he then tried to cut
her throat with the same knife did not know why
he did not kill himself said his poui, (darkness)
that came into his heat caused him to do this. At
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