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

sentence Polua.
SECOND DAY.
The Committe met again ~ 10y appointment on
Saturday Mt 10 \. ~ At the Chambers Of the Chief
Justice.
The examinations aud inquiries were directed as
ON the former occasion tu obtain all the iufOrmn-
ton possible which might tend to influence the
Committee to recommend the condemned man
to mercy.
we'll offered to submit to the Committee resume
of recent legal authorities bearing ON the cvi-
dences or Prescriptions OF insanity Of persons at
tempting suicide which the Committee signiiied
thew would he pleased to receive from him.
Father Raymond de Ia Landc; Read written
statement which he filed with the Committee.
polua told me, that his wife had frequently pro
voked him to wrath. Tint he could not bear with
her any longer. He told me that he was intoxi-
Gated That lie had drank three glasses of liquor.
and was bikaku. This was at the time when he
missed To have intercourse with no other person.
He said that he had wife living but was living
apart from her. saw Polua for the first time
early III March, in prison. He IL quiet and
thoughtful man. He is not like the most of his
couutrymen, now is penitent MI | have learned
of him. is from himself. He is willing to die.
Rev III. II. Parker: Live i'll Honolulu. Have
seen Polua several times i'll Oahu Prison Went
~ II clergyman. He gave somewhat OF the history
of his life. That he lived i'll Honolulu about 10
wears, then went to HAmakua, Hawaii 49, from
thence went to kau where he made the acquaint-
anoe 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 Mt the door and killed her he
then tried take his own life and Thought he had
succeeded, but doctor sewed up his wounds;
when he found that he would live he was relieved:
said that she desecrated his own house: said she
ieered and iusulted him. He made these state
ments on my first visit to him some months ago (:
he did not say he was insane when he committed
the crime. have visited him mt least five times
talked with him ut length he showed no signs OF
inssuity; he said he was overcome with passion
when he did the deed. "Ua p"H' az Ia ponij.
He did not say he was under the influence of Ii
auor at the time ; he said he WAS responsible for
the crime: he very serious. The last time l
raw him the day when he was repreved; the
time previous he said he deserved the punishment.
| have seen Hawaiians many times do strange
things which to us might strange like
this, but his sounduess of mind was uncouded
said ne made preparations for the murder; SAID
he cut his fingers accidental ally, think he sad 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 very clear recollection OF
the circumstance.
DIR. II. McKibbin, Physician and Surgeon: Saw
Polua at Oahu prison day before yesterday at re-
quest of Committee. had n long conversation with
hn, mostly i'll Hawaiian Am acquainted with
Hawaiian language made inquiries of the Keepers
of the prison, Malaihi, Constable, and Mr.Fyfe-
they said lie the same now as when he came
in. They said he had no headache, no fever ate
well and slept well then repeated the questions
to him he confirmed those answers: he said he
had been well, just the sime as now he sad that
he had had some trouble ut Waikapu, had been
brought up for assault and been imprisoned for
three years: said lately he had lived awhile ut
Hamakua, said he was married. that his wife was
living with another man at Hamakua. de SAID he
had been living year and eight months with the
ceased she followed him to Kau; he said that up
to u short time before this unfortunate occur
he and she had lived together on the best of
terms; that lately he suspected her ndeity, sue
lived with teauster, and she did not take care of
him rs formerly one day he SAW this man leaving
his (Poluasl room through an opening he went
with him aud talked very insultingly to him,
(Polu - 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 m,de him very angry; when he went To
his work he brooding over 1t; when he came
home from his work she was not at home, but was
at the house of the other man. about a cham on !;
he became still incensed and went and got bot
tie of okoiehao from which he drank some said
he then had made up his mind to kill her ; said he
bought knife because he had none in the house
to cut beef with. told him had seen n knife
similar to the one he used and 1t was not such a
one he used for domestic purposes, and was told
hu sharpened the back of it.. What did you do
that for? didn't you do it to kill the woman! He
said yes. My impression IL that lac 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
minute or two till she came out with a saucepan
the man with her ON the other side of the pam
he then struck ut the woman struck ut 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 ponii, (darkness)
that came into his heart caused him to do this. At
present he is in perfectly sound mind there il
excitement, he IL perfectly cool; from the mans
account and memory of the facts should say he
was not insane when he committed the deed but
from the taunts and drink he excited The
draping the room In the manner he described
should not think showed insanity; the cutting
Of the finger think he said accidental, NJ his
account impressed me, but do not remember dis
tnctly about that he told me he bought the knife
the day he committed the deed said he bought il
st the store, and sharpened 1t for the purpose Of
killing her.
Dr.. J. 8. Mc3rsw, Physician aud surgeon. Went
with Dr. McKibbin 70 Oahu prison, he's inter
pretsd, finally found Polua could talk pretty
good English have just heard DIR. Mckibbin q
statement and have no variations 10 make; have
been practising medicine over 10 years ! think
Polua " Of perfectly sound mind, Was cool and
sound In his statements, from the statements
which he made Of his actions ! should judge him
70 be . man allow ~ anger, had been cool and COL
lsctsd, and parchAssd the okolshao to nerve him
self, he seemed " DO very determined and hard ~
contra when angry he laid down before US To
shov the Dp6itiOn the woman in when he