The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-04-01
Antonio GaSpenardo, of KaneOhe,
Kills his Wife and a Hospital
Nurse-The Nan a Reti-
gious Fanatic.
Did He Hoist the Flag on Punch
bowl?
ON TUE RACK OF THE FUGf-
TIVE.

Following close upon the heels of
raising the stars and stripes on the
top of Punchbowl, Wednesday night,
comes a tragedy which must haunt
the minds of our police department
until the guilty perpetrator is brought
to justice.
From information furnished by Mr..
James Odds, an old and respected resi-
dent of Kaneohe, we CLEAN the follow
ing :
Antonio Gaspernado, a half-caste
Greek, who for about two years past
has been haunted with the idea that
he is a Messiah, and could perform
miracles, even to the extent of bring
ing to life birds, animals, or human
beings who had died. This, however,
was merely an idea, but so strongly
was it impressed upon his faulty brain
that even
AFTER HE HAD KILLED ALL
the chickens in his coop, and his dogs
and cats, without bringing his sup
posed powers to successful issue, he
continued his crusade of experiments
to those of his neighbor with the
same unsatisfactory results.
Though the quiet Portuguese OF
Kaneohe were in dread of the man,
but few of them permitted their feel
ings to lead them to take anything
more than mild precautionary steps
such as Enchanting the dog at night
and putting an extra bolt on the chick
en-house. Yesterday, however, when
the new ensign was found on the hill
even the more conservative Kaneohe
folk laid the act to "CraZy Gaspen-
ardo,u as he had been away from
home all Wednesday night, and it
was decided to call the attention of
the authorities to the mans action.
Yesterday
DIR. OLIVER WAS NOTIFIED
and it was arranged that he would
visit the man to-day in the disguise
of Messiah and compare notes, at
the same time examine him as to his
sanity. But "the best laid plans of
mice and men gang oft aglee." An
tonic, hearing of this movement, de-
cided to take in an additional supply
Of incarnation producer and return,
and by his powers on any pretender
who might show himself within his
"Wigwam."
On his return to his home he found
the DOCTORS representative in friendly
| conversation with his wife: AS Uas-
pepard2u had g iGo % meet the doctor he
was rather surprised to find someone
else present, hence the tragedy.
foUy minimize of I'd r. Ia
| shrieks were heard issuing from the
! cottage and then suddenly ceased;
neighbors thought that the crazy fell
! low had been trying his powers on
some more chickens, or perhaps a
goat, and no particular attention was
paid to the matter until a few hours
afterward, when Mrs. Rosario dropped
in to borrow something for the noon
day meal. The horrible sight which
met her aged eyes has so unsettled the
old lady that it is
DOUBTFUL IF SHE WILL SURVIVE
the shock. Stretched upon the floor
in the little front room with his head
crushed into shapeless mass lay the
body of the native sent out by the
ASYLUM authorities. In his hand was
clutched knife, which he had evil
IDENTIFY been using at the table only a
few hours before, when, the picture of
health, he sat waiting for the man he
intended to conduct to the asylum.
In the adjoining room and lying
across a chair was the body of
MRS. GAsPENARDo WITH HER
THROAT CUT
from ear to ear, and her face fright
fully mutilated by the murderer. A
table on which were the dishes used
at the morning meal had been upset
and the room showed signs of a strug-
gle having taken place.
1t is supposed from the location OF
the bodies that the assassin came into
the room quietly, and seeing the
native with his wife, dealt him q
blow which knocked him senseless,
and to silence the screams of his wife,
who evidently ran into the next room
to escape the fury of the lunatic, but
before she had time to escape he first
dealt her blow and afterwards
MUTILATED HER BODY WITH THE
KNIFE
he usually carried with him.
A careful search of the locality
failed to show any trace of the muir.
derer, but, as there is canoe missing
from the neighborhood, it is believed
he has taken it, and may come to this
part of the island with view to ship
ping as a sailor on some outward
bound vessel.
Gaspenardo has always been con.
sidered in comfortable circumstances,
and except during the times when the
strange hallucination occupied his
mind, attended carefully to his gar
den. This year he has met with
losses owing to the dry weather His
friends had persuaded him to dig a
well and irrigate his lands by arti-
fetal means, believing that if he
would get water he would see the adj
vantages of the aermotor sold by the
Hawaiian hardware company, and
that the success which would follow
its use would materially assist in
restoring his mind to healthy con-
dition and enable him to realize that
this is all fools day!