The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-02
A HAWAIIAN TERROR,


A surrpress Who Murders Five People In
Her Court Played Her Husband.
NEw YorK, March with u
prospect ahead for the annexation OF
the Hawaiian Islands there ID very
little absolute knowledge here OF the
queer superstitions some Of the native
Islanders indulse in" said former
resident OF Honolulu to mo the other
day in an uptown hotel. Everyone
in this country has general notion
that the natives are superstltious, but
with the absurd notions entertained
and practices that are permitted so far
as the common people are concerned,
We have but the faintest conception,
"EIere Is case in illustration, 1t
would not be matched, ! think, in any
superstitions among the North Amerl-
can savages. Pulolo, an old bag, was
Hawaiian sorceress, who claimed to
have supernatural powers through the
aid OF u spirit, known to the natives as
kililikina
"She lived on theisland OF Lauaii and
held kind OF court, where she received
the natives, who resorted to her in i'm
plicit faith that she could deliver them
from evil spirits. Some OF her adhe-
rents she uniformed as soldiers.
"PulOlo's family included her hus-
band, her brother, her sister and their
children. Her family as we'll aa those
about her were kept by her IN abject
terror, and ii there was tho slightest
sign OF dIsobedience to her wishes she
threatened to invoke the terrible power
OF KilllIklna
1T was just q year ago when the
aorceress committed series othorrible
crimes for which she was sentenced to
imprisonment for life. Pulolo was q
woman OF unbridled and tlandish dis.
position. One afternoon she ordered
two OF her soldiers TO seize her hus-
band and hold him while she beat him.
"She fairly aayed him, and aiterward
gashed the soles Of his feet with broken
bottles so that he was unable to walk,
The sight stimulated the old hag's
brother, Hoopi, to eXelaim that Pulolo
was not directed by the supernatural
powers, but by her own wickedness,
whereupon Hoopi also was seized by
attendants and held while she burned
him horribly with torches, brought ut
her direction from house where she
had fire built for the purpose.
"BY this time the woman was fairly
insane with bloodthirstiness. She turn
cd upon her six.year-old nephew, Kala.
liilii, and beat him over the head until
his mouth and nose bled, his parents
standing near by the while.
"The little fellow called to his parents
for help, but in vain, for they were
either too much afraid or were too SUI
perstitious OF Pulolo's power to inter
fere to save him. Pulolo finally put an
end to the boys sutferings by sitting on
his head until his neck was bent over
and broken. Pulolo then suifocated her
sister by thrusting her head into the
hot sand and holding her there until
she died. The last act OF her cruelty
was in directing her servants to hold
Kahlokai, who had been her assistant
in her murders, while she beat him to
death. All the bodies were placed to-
gether in a house, which was burned
and tho bodies cremated.
"It was difficult to learn at the trial
the real motives of the sorCeress. 1t is
understood among the Hawaiians, how.
ever, that Pulolo and her brother-in.law
wished to marry, and in order to accom-
piish her design Puiolo put to death
her husband and her sister, while the
other murders were perpetrated in
order to conceal this intention. Several
men implicated with Pulolo were con-
viCted and sentenced to imprisonment"