The morning call., 1892-06-29
The HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Terrible Crimes of an Alleged
SOrceress.
Volney v. Ashford on His Way to Saa Fran
ciseo-The Commander Of the Fasana
Drops Dead-Notes.

BY the steamer Australia, which arrived
from Honolulu yesterday, we have Ha-
waiian advices to June q.
On Thursday afternoon. June 0, after
great fficulty In selecting native jury,
occurred the trial of the Lanai murderers
before the Circuit Court at Waikiki. A
brief abstract of the case from the testi-
mony presented, which was the most re-
voting ever placed on record in the king
dom, is as follows: On Thursday, February
II, a woman named Pulolo. who claimed to
be a kahuna, or S0TceTess, and to have at
her command a spirit named Kiilikina, had
tvs Of her soldiers, Keliikuewa and
KakalO, seize her husband and hold
him, while she beat him cruelty and
cut his feet with broken bottles till
he could not walk. Not satisfied with
this. she commenced Furnishing a llttIe boy
six years old, the sou of her eldest brother
Kalu. Another brother, Hoop, being
sceptcal as TO her supernatural powers, at
her command was seized and held by some
of her attendants, while this inhuman
wretch burned him most horribly with
torches ignijed from large fire. In the
dwelling near by. Her vampire instincts
remaining still unquenched. she took the
boy, kalaiiiii in hand again, and butfeted
him about till he bled proiusely at the nose
and mouth, w lie his father and others
stood by and silently witnessed this new act
of cruelty.
This brutal s0rcersss finally put an end to
the boys suffering by sitting on his head
till II tent 10 lis waist like broken reed,
and life was extinct. The poor little corpse
was then taken and laid out on a mat, and
the helpless HoOpu was placed beside il
with his face TO the wall guarded by the
SO-Caled soldiers.
Her next victim was her sister whom she
suff0Cated with the assistance of kahOOkai
by thrusting her head into hot sand. After
this the dead body of her sister as placed
on the mating beside the boys She then
ordered her satellites to seize her late assist
ant KaholoBai. and hey held him fast while
she beat him to death. The next move In
this frightful tragedy. after removing the
bodies OF the boy and woman. was to ere
mate hahOlOkaTs corpse by burning the
house with all its furniture and effects, thus
hoping to give an appearance OF acct
dental conhagratlon. The othertwo bodies
were afteTward burned.
The jury brought IN a unanimous verdict
Of murder in the second degree against
Pul0lU 90 years in prison. aud four OF the
men, for the murder OF the boy. The re-
mRinder Of the 10 persons arrested we're
discharged on this count, but were held (as
well as the five already found guilty. TO
answer two other indictments - for the
murder OF the woman and man. Owing 10
the terrible pitch OF popular feeling on
Maui, there will probably he change Of
venue granted before another trial takes
place. The intensity Of popular feeling
among the natives Is not directed against
kahunaism as practice, but against This
impoSier who has falsely claimed the pow
ers OF a Hawaiian magician
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
The preliminary examination Of the par
ties arrested for treason resulted in Judge
Dali ordering the release on the 10th last
Of FOney Y. Ashford George Markham.
George Maxwell, J. W. Blpikane, Manuel
Ross Jr. and kaimimOku.
The Judge held Robert Wilcox and five
others for trial anu they are now IN Jail. The
decision was somewhat of disappointing
10 lovers of good order in the community,
rs they had hoped Ashford would be held
for trial, regarding him as one of the more
dangerous agtatOrs. Ashford immed ateiy
left Honolulu, and mbarked on the 18th inst
on tile bTigantine John ID. Spreckels, from
Maui fer San Francisco, this being the
same vessel in which Ashford forced the
former Premier, Gibson, 10 abandon the
islands after the la'teT's downfall In 1857.
l. is apparently doubtful II Wilcox aud his
ass ecates viii be brought TO trial; in fact.
il is being TumOTed that Marshal Wilson
and Wilcox VIII form a coalition and VIII
cox may be released.
The Legislature keeps on in the even tenor
of its way. EcOrOmy IS the order of the
day. The Queen DOwager Kapiolani will
probably lose her annuity or at best viii
receive less than One-haf the amount given
her last session. Many petitions have, been
presented TO the Legislature, among them
those asking that the duty on rice be re-
tanned that duties be levied on imported
hogs; that there be no territory ceded for
any new treaty wiki the United States, ana
that the Hawaiian Government decry all
attempts at annexation.
SERIOUS SCANDALS.
Representative Ashford, on the Goth Inst,
woke the Ministry up by presenting reso-
luii0ns questioning Attorney General W. A.
Whiting and Marshal Wilson relative 10
current rumOTs that they and some Of their
sub0Udnates had cOnsoTted with Bloom and
Douglass, the Australian defaulters. during
tile stay OF The yacht Beagle IN Hawaiian
waters and that they had suppressed the
evidence Of identity OF Bloom and Douglass.
thus preventing their apprehension by
the Australian authorities The Attor-
ney-GpneTal is also asked a number of
questions concerning the disposition OF
diamonds Struggled into Honolulu by one |
Rubens 10 February, 1891, and whether any
suit has been brought TO forfeit the gems to
the Government or If no condemnation pro
ceedings have been taken, if the Attorney
General received any sum Tor compromising |
the matter.
DEATH OF THE FAsANA COMMANDER.
IHf austrian llisdlt Edadld dIIlftu Oh
pOtt here on the 1lth inst. IL was noticed |
that her flag was AZ half-mast. Inquiry re-
veaied that her commander, Friedrich
: hwesSgut had been stricken with apo
pleXy aud had died az sea, June 10. The |
funeral OF the dead commander took place |
here on Monday, June Il, and was attended |
by detachmeuts Of sailors and warriors
from the Fa,ana, the United States steamer
San Francisco. the household troops, the !
officers OF men-Of-war, Governor CieghOTn |
and her Majesty Chamberlain.
The steamer YameshirO Maru arrived |
from Japan on the 20rh inst. bringing 1850 |
japanese laborers. The ship and pas
sengsrs are Quarsntined on account Of the |
Tevalence of measles on board.
Admiral Brown is rapidly recovering the |
use Of his Injured leg and is tX eeted to be |
soon able to visit his many friends.
Divers have recovered the iron bar and a |
bolt which are supposed TO have been used in |
effecting the murder Of Chinese or board |
the w. II, Dmond when in this harbor last |
April
PERHAPS He WAS DROWNED.