The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-20

still unquenched, she took the boy,
Kalaliilii, in hand again, and buff
feted him about till he bled pro-
fusely at the nose and mouth, while
his father and others stood by and
silently witnessed this new act of
cruelty. The poor STRIPPING cried to
his parent again and again for help,
but the poor superstitious creature
did not dare Tor perhaps wish) to
move hand or foot to succor his tor
tured offspring.
This brutal sorceress finally put
an end to the boys suffering by sit
ting on his head till it bent to his
waist, like a broken reed, and life
was extinct. The poor little corpse
was then taken and laid out on a
mat, and the helpless Hoopii was
placed beside it with his face to the
wall guarded by the so-called sol
diers.
Her next victim was her sister
whom she suffocated with the assist
ance of Kaholokai, by thrusting her
head into hot sand. After this the
dead body of her sister was placed on
the mating beside the boy s,she then
ordered her satellites to seize her
late assistant Kaholokai, and they
held him fast while she beat him to
death.
During the night the house, which
at this time much resembled
morgue, caught fire, but was saved
from destruction by the men near at
hand. Early the next morning,
February 18th, a councilof war was
held to decide how best to cover up
the dark deeds of the previous night.
Her instructions to her tools
were to say, when Intercepted, that
the boys death resulted from sick
ness; that the girl, her sister, died in
a fit; and that the man, Kaholokai,
lost his life in the fire which attacked
the house on the night before.
The next move in this frightful
tragedy after removing the bodies of
the boy and woman was to cremate
Koholokai's corpse, by burning the
house, with all its furniture and
effects; thus hoping to give an ap-
pearance of accidental confagration.
The other two bodies were afterwards
burned After the destruction of the
dwelling and the bodies, the MUIR
deress and her retinue spent the
night at a neighbours house some dis
lance away.
The jury, on Friday, the 10th inst,
brought in unanimous verdict of
murder in the second degree against
Pulolo (twenty years in prisonl and
four of the men, for the murder OF
the boy. The remainder of the ten
persons arrested were discharged on
this count, but were held las we'll as
the five already found guilty. to
answer two other indictments-for
the murders of the woman and man.
Owing to the terrible pitch of popu-
lar feeling on Maui, there will prob
ably be change of venue granted
before another trial takes place.
AS to the motive for these unpre-
cedented crimes, it is difficult to con-
lecture. The reason given out gen.
orally among Hswaiians is this
That Pulolo and her brother-in-law,
one of her willing tools, wished to
marry, and in order to consummate
their purpose, it was necessary to put
the husband of one and the wife of
the other out of the way. The other
horrible acts were perpetrated to
conceal their real intention. The in
tensity of popular feeling among the
natives is not directed against ka-
hunaism as practice, but against
this imposter, who has falsely claimed
the powers of Hawaiian magician.
During Thursday P. NJ, the 18th
and 18th instant, the foreign jury
distinguished itself by rapid and
thorough work. The jury is pro-
badly the best one, taken as a whole,
that has been summoned to try cases
on Maui for a number of years. Last
night Judge Bickerton excused them
until Monday morning. To-day some
native divorce cases are under con-
sideration.
Maui, June Is, 1892.