The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-05-13
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rection of the barracks. A message
a moment later from the Mutual
Telephone Co.'s central Office con-
veyed the information that a man
had been shot. An ADVERTISER re-
preventative was quickly on the spot
and soon found that the information
was correct, and that a most foul
deed had been committed. On the
veranda of his house in rear of the
back gate of the Palace, sat Charles
Hiram, the Kings coachman, with a
bullet wound right through his body.
In the employ of Hiram's house
hold is South Sea Island woman,
who it is said is married or used to
live with South Sea Island man,
named Lui. He did not treat her
well, and since she had been living
at Hiram's, Lui used to be hanging
around nearly every night trying to
entice her away, but she would not
go. He had threatened to shoot her
if she did not go with him to one of
the other islands. Not talking
scarcely any other language but
their own, it is difficult to get at the
real trouble between them. Fri
day evening Lui made his appear
ance outside of Hiram's house, and,
as the natives there say, there was
another South Sea Islander with
him dressed in white clothes. Lui
they say wore dark clothes.
There is flight of steps leading
up to Hiram's house, and he was
standing half way up these when
Lui came around. At the top of the
steps, on a small veranda, stood a
native. Lui wanted to know where
the woman was, when Hiram ordered
him to go off about his business. A
second later the shot was heard. The
bullet struck Hiram in the stomach,
near the navel, went right through
the body, coming out at the back, a
little to the left, in almost a direct
line. 1t went through the veranda
door and struck the house making
quite a dint in the wood.
Mr.. John Sullivan was driving
along Palace Walk and saw the flash
from the gun. Hiram noticed him
and called out to him that he was
shot, and for him to go at once for
DR.. McGrew. He did so and the
latter was soon by the side of the in
jured man who had gone up the steps
and seated himself on the veranda.
DR.. McGrew made an examination
and found as above stated that poor
Hiram had been shot right through
the body, and that he could not do
much for him. Hiram was taken in
to the house and everything possible
done to make him comfortable. Mr..
Fred. Wundenberg made himself
very useful, getting ice and other
things that were required. Hiram
complained of pains in his stomach,
and threw up flesh and blood. He
told the doctor that he did not think
he could live.
As soon as Lui fired the shot he
ran away, first throwing the gun
into the road, where it was found
later on and taken to the Station
House. The bullet, of IS calibre,
was found on the veranda. The
natives in the yard say that Lui ran
in a mauka direction. and probably
went through the alleyway past
Junius Kaae's house and leading on
to Beretania street. The sentry at
the rear gate of the Palace says he
saw two South Sea Islanders, one
dressed in white and the other in
dark clothes, run out of Hiram's
yard directly after the shot was
fired, go along the road a few steps
and disappear in rear of the house.
The police were notified, two
quickly arriving, and at once made
a search for Lui. Deputy Marshal
Hopkins was there and made thor
ough investigation of the affair. The
premises all around were thoroughly
searched, also the palace grounds.
The police went to the house where
Lui generally lived but he was not
to be found. This was at the corner
of Queen and Richard streets, a
number of South Sea Islanders liv-
ing there. One man was taken to
the Station house and questioned as
to Luis whereabouts, but nothing
satisfactory could be obtained from
him.
Some suspicion was raised when
one of the sergesnts of the House
hold troops went to the South Sea
Island quarters. He noticed man
in perspiring condition, and gun
hung up in the room. Half an hour
later when he went to the same place
the man was there but not the gun.
In room in rear, however, two guns
were found and taken to the Station
house. This was the same man who
was questioned at the Station house.
The woman who was really the cause
of the shooting was taken to the Sta
ton house and detained.