The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-12-13
TWO MURDERS.
Correct Accounts of the Puma and
kOnR Atrocities.

the evidence upon which the two China
men we're convicted, whom it was his
painful and solemn duty to sentence TO
the extreme penalty of the law while
presiding at the Waimea Circuit Term.
The accounts differ considerably from
the first published reports made up
hastily from different sources.
THE MURDER OF KAPAHEE IN PUMA.
The connection OF Ahapa alias All Hop
With the murder OF the aged school
teacher, Kapahee, in the Puma District.
was established judicially according 10
the following particulars There was an
appeal pending at the time the deed was
committed in q lawsuit between All Sue,
the Chinese prisoner who committed
suicide On the steamer W. 6. Hall, and
Kapahee. II was to be heard at the
Kau term in September. 4 few days
before the term was 10 open, All Sue
and Ahapa were seen passing up the
road toward Capt. Eldart's house. Ka-
pahee had gone ahead OF them some time
before. All were walking, none having
horses. Kapahee went TO Eldart's ex-
pecting to collect quite q sum OF money
from Eldart for services rendered. He
found, however, that only SO were due
him, which Eldart paid. Kapahee left
there about a. M, to go back by the
same road, and was never again seen
alive. His body was found secreted
two or three days afterward in 8 large
crack in the lava field, very much mutt
lated about the head and the place COW
cred with moss-covered stones. The dis
covery was made through the seeming
Of dog and surrounding large swarms
Of flies. A great many people had turned
out TO engage in the search. The party
found on close examination stones in the
road having gray hairs and blood marks
on them. By such marks the place was
indicated where the body had been
dragged from the road into the bush,
also the place where the body had lain
for some time before last concealment.
This was mauks, but the body was found
some distance makai, OF the Government
road.
A remarkable circumstance here en-
tiers the chain of convicting evidence.
1t appears that little boy about eight
| years OF age had passed along the road
| where the two Chinese had been seen to
90 and Kapahee to come. The boy
| knew the Cinnamon well, as everybody
/ In the locality did. He first saw the
| other one and little further on the one
now under sentence OF death secreted in
a cleft of the rock by the side OF the
! road. The next morning this boy
/ pointed out to the people searching for
| Kapahee, whose murder had as vet been
/ undiscovered, where he had seen these
two Cinnamon. They having in the
face OF this positive information stated
that they were not on the road at all led
| 10 their arrest. 1t seemed that Kappa
bee while returning on foot from Eldart' g
| must have been struck when passing
! with a heavy stone from behind, then
| probably finished and dragged off into
| the bush. That night strange China
| man arrived at All Sues house, where
| he and Ahapa were living, and they
| forced the stranger by threats OF killing
him TO 90 with them to move the body
| from the place they had temporarily
| secreted it In the bush. They took a
pack donkey and about midnight re-
moved the body down to the place
| where it was discovered buried in the
rocks. The prisoner under sentence
himself testified to the same facts as the
| third Chinaman employed, about NOV
ing the body, but he claimed that All
Sue had done the killing and that he
| (Ahapa) had taken no part in it.
THE KoNA MURDER.
Akana. the condemned prisoner from
South Kona, had been living with his
cousin All Sin at NapoOpoo. The two
| kingmen had, it appears, had a dispute
about $500 that Akana owed TO All Sin
Akana had been spreading a report
around for a week before the tragedy, te
the effect that An Sin contemplated
committing suicide. That afternoon he
| removed 4 very old native woman from
their house 70 the house OF nelghbors
telling them that if she stayed at the
aforementioned place she might die o.
| be killed. About O'Clock that nigh
/ the house was seen TO be on IRE by the
people living IN the neighborhoOd. They
hurried TO the spot and found the house
all burned down, but could find nothing
| of the Chinese who had lived In 1t
They then began search, going dow
to the house of the father-in-laW o
! Akana. Arriving there in the middle o
the night they found Akana there, bu
could not get any information regarding
An Sin. Akana acted very strangely
| about some wounds on bis head, telling
different stories about them.
In the morning all went up TO tht
scene of the fire and there found IN tbs
debris the remains of human being
the breast of which had not been burnet
owing to its lying close to the ground
Upon examination of the body the.
were satisfied that it was that of All Sill
from particles of clothing left. Their
| were two cuts in the breast. They mex
found a bucket containing some clothe
and water under a tree. They askcC
Akana whose clothes these were, and h'
said they were his. Spots of blood wer'
also discovered in the vicinity, scattered
over the lauhala leaves. 1t was ascer
tanned that blood had been washed on
of the clothes and the discolored waite
thrown away and replaced with fresi
water, but still the second water showed
indications of blood, while stains of tina
fluid remained in the clothes. The ma
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