The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-08-05
HANGED |
Woo Sau Suffers the Last Pen
atty Of the Law !
Particulars OF tho Execution. Doctors
Certificates, Etc.

At five minutes past eight O'Clock
this morning Chinaman named
Woo Sau was hanged within the
walls of Oahu Prison. He was SEN
fenced at the May term of the Cir.
cult Court of the Third Judicial
Circuit held at Hilo, Hawaii. Woo
Sau was charged with the murder
of Quon Yep at Honomu, Hilo, in
July, 1888, and Lam Gee and Ten
Yick were indicted as accessories
with him. Owing to the feeling in
the district, about seventy-tive per-
sons we're examined before an UNI
biased jury was obtained. The case
occupied eight days in trial, and re-
suited in verdict of conviction
against Woo Sau for murder, and of
acquittal toward Lam Gee and Ten
Yick. The Chief Justice in passing
sentence of death on Woo Sau said
that the murdered man had render
ed himself obnoxious TO the prisoner
and others of his class by reason of
his having become an informer to
the authorities of the oilenses too
common among the Chinese, OF hav-
ing opium in possession, of gambling
and illicit selling of Intoxicating
liquors. There was no doubt that
this murder was planned in room
of the zee Wo Hing Co., in Hilo, a
society formed from among the Chi
nese, with large membership. The
death of this obnoxious mau was de-
liberately planned and he was allur-
cd to a lonely place in valley away
from public notice, there Toasted to
surfeiting, drugged with intoXicat-
ing liquors and opium and his life
crushed out of him, and his
poor body carried like dumb
brutc's and buried, disinterred and
buried again in a secret and seclud-
ed spot,
The prisoner since his conviction
has been confined in cell at Oahu
Prison, and has shown no signs of
| giving away until yesterday, when
he wept a good deal. AT an early
hour this morning the acting pastor
of the Chinese Church, and Mr..
Goo Kim, Assistant Chinese Com
mercal Agent, were with the con-
demned man. Woo Sau had sent
for NJ. Goo Kim on Sunday and
asked him TO forward a letter TO his
father and mother and two brothers
in China.
The scaffold was erected by half
past six o'clock this morning in the
usual place in the prison yard. DR..
G. NJ. Hyde arrived at the prison
about ten minutes before eight
O'Clock and baptized the doomed
man. The latter made no confess
sion. AT five minutes before eight
Marshal Soper read the death war
rant, and then preparations were
made for the carrying out of the
law. Among those present to wit
ness the execution were, besides the
Marshal, Deputy Marshals Creigh-
ton and Hopkins, Captain Staples,
the prison warden, Drs. j. III. Kim
ball and c. L. Rodgers, Goo Kim,
Police Captain Larsen, Deputy War.
den Kingsley, Messrs. j. ID. Holt,
j, i. Staples, j. ii. Langtry, p.
Isenberg and representative of the
BULLETIN.
The condemned mans arms were
pinioned in his room and at one
minute past eight O'Clock he walked
with firm step to the scaffold
where the work of pinioning was
completed. The black cap wa:
drawn over the head, Capt. Larsen
fixed the moose and punctually a
five minutes past eight the bolt wa:
drawn. Death was no doubt in
Simultaneous, there not being the
slightest movement after the felor
dropped to the length of the rope
After hanging twenty-one minutes
the doctors made an examination anC
pronounced the man dead. Fou
minutes later the body was taker
down, placed in coffin and burieC
at Makiki. Marshal Soper's ar
engagements were perfect, the execu
ton being carried out expeditiousl,
ard efficiently. Jailer Staples hat
his arrangements so made that Their
was no hitch at all. Capt. Fehlbeh
had charge of the front door of tn
prison. The following document
explain themselves: