The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-12-18
TWO MURDERS.
Correct Accounts of the Puma and
Kona Atrocities.

Correct Accounts Of the Puma and
Kona Atrocities.
His Honor Judge Bickerton has given
our reporter particulars from memory OF
the evidence upon which the two China
men were convicted, whom it was his
painlul and solemn duty to sentence 10
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 iudicially according 10
the following particulars. There was an
appeal pending at the time the deed was
committed in lawsuit between Ali sue,
the Chinese prisoner who committed
suicide on the steamer W. q. Hall, and
KaBahee. 1t was to be heard at the
kau term in September. A few days
before the term was to open, All Sue
and Ahapa were seen passing up the
road toward Capt Eldart's house. IA
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 $40 were due
him, which Eldart paid. kapahee left
there about s q. m, TO 30 back by the
same road. and was never again seen
alive. His body was found secreted
two or three DAYS afterward in a large
crack in the lava field, very much mutt
lated about the head and the place COW
cred with moSS-coyered stones. The dis
coyerv was made through the seeming
OF a dog and surrounding large swarms
OF flies. 4 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 mauka, but the body was found
some distance makai, OF the Government
road.
) remarkable circumstance here en-
tiers the chain OF convicting evidence.
1t appears that a little boy about eight
years Of age had passed along the road
where the two Chinese had been seen TO
20 and kapahee to come. The boy
knew the Cinnamon we'll 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
q cleft OF the rock by the side cf the
road. The next morning this boy
pointed out 10 the people searching Tor
Kapahee, whose murder had As yet 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
hee while returning on foot from Eldart s
must have been struck when passing
with = 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 20 with them 10 move the body
from the place they had temporarily
secreted il in the bush. They took q
pack donkey and about midnight re-
moved the body down TO the place.
where ii was discovered buried in the
rocks. Tie 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
{Abapal had taken no part In it.