The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-12-18
TWO MURDERS.
Correct Accounts of the Puma and
Kona Atrocities.

Correct Accounts OF Nue una anu
Kona Atrocities.
His Honor Judge Bickerton has given
our reporter particulars from memory Of
the evidence upou which the two China
men were 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 Abapa alias All Hop
with the murder OF the aged school
teacher, Kapahee, in the Puma District,
was established iudicially according TO
the following particulars. There was an
appeal pending at the time the deed was
committed in a lawsuit between All Sue,
the Chinese prisoner who committed
suicide on the steamer W. q. Hall, and
Kapahee. 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 sum OF money
from Ildart for services rendered. He
found, however, that only SO were dne
him, which Eldart paid. Kapahee left
there about a. m, to 90 back by the
same road, and was never again seen
alive His body was found secreted
two or three DAYS afterward in 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 a 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 mauka, 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 a 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 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
to 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 to move the body
from the place they had temporarily
secreted it in the bush. They took
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.