The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-09-19
AND is In TURF KILLED WHILE
RESISTING ARREST.
Government Troops Ordered to
the Scene.
the Scene.

At an early hour Friday morn
ing telephone message was received
at the police station from Deputy
Sheriff Wond at Pearl City stating
that a murder had been committed
near there, and that the murderer
was barricaded in his house and re-
fused to surrender, and asking that
assistance be sent to effect his capture.
Deputy-Marshal Brown and Captain
Parker with five officers, armed with
Winchester rifles, responded to the
call and left for the scene of the MUIR
der by the S:45 train Thursday morn
ing.
After arriving at Pearl City, it took
but short time to ascertain the par
ticulars regarding the tragedy. 1t
seems that notorious and desperate
leper, known as Aikualani, had q
place of residence a short distance
from the Pearl City station, though he
had been compelled for some time to
make his home in the mountains for
fear of being arrested and taken to
Molokai.
Some time during Thursday night
the bandit leper came to his house,
where his wife and three children resi-
ded, and for some cause shot his wife
Niau in the head with a rifle INJECTING
almost instant death. The shooting
is supposed to have taken place Fri
day morning at about 5 o'clock.
Shortly after committing the fiendish
act, a grown up son of the murderer
was despatched to Honolulu to pro-
cure coffin for his dead mother.
Kaahanui, the father of the dead
woman, soon heard of the tragedy and
went to the house. but was not al
lowed to enter, and was fired at by
Aikualani. He escaped injury, now
ever, and proceeded to Deputy-Sheriff
Wond, who telephOned the news into
the city.
After the arrival of Deputy Marshal
Brown and posse at the railway sta
ton at Pearl City, q programme was
decided on, and the party repaired to
a house close by the one containing
the murderer. The officers were as
signed to certain places, all of which.
commanded q view of the leper's
house.
Proceeding closer toward the house,
two small children-a boy and girl
were noticed sitting on the porch.
The officers beckoned to them, and
they came out. A note written in
native by Captain Parker calling upon
the leper to surrender was sent in to
officers with the information that his
father refused to surrender, and said
he wanted to kill those three id
policemen out there before he died.
The boy was sent back with another
message, but the father pushed him
out of the front door, ordered him to
get away and closed the door. AS
soon as the boy had got out of harm's
way, the ambushed officers opened
fire on the house in which the leper
was confined.
By crawling through rice field and
some brush, Deputy Brown
and Captain Parker, with one officer,
managed to get within a short dis
lance of the house. While these man.
euvers were being made the remain
ing officers kept up fusilade upon
the house.
The leper up TO this time had not
fired single shot. Deputy-Marshal
Brown, thinking perhaps the man had
been killed, called to Captain Parker,
and together they came out Of their
hiding places and up to within a few
feet of the house. Hearing noise in
the front portion of the house, Messrs.
Brown and Parker took to shelter as
fast as possible and behind some trees
near the house. No sooner had they
done so than the leper fred two shots
through the back kitchen window at
Mr.. Brown. Both the bullets were
found imbedded in the
tree. This shooting by the leper gave
the other officers an opportunity of
learning his whereabouts, and heavy
fire was concentrated at that point.
Not desiring to run any unnecessary
risk, Deputy-Marshal Brown deter
mined to return to the station and
telephone for some of the government
forces. In order to get away in safety
he instructed Captain Parker to keep
up a fusilade in order not to attract
attention toward his departure.
Shortly after Mr.. Brown left, Cap
tain Parker followed, in order to ac-
quaint Mr.. Brown that more ammu
milton was needed.
Returning to the scene of the shoot
ing, Deputy-Marshal Brown came
upon a brother of the leper, who
agreed to go to the house and make
He went up close to
the house and called out, but received
no reply. A knock on the door
brought no response, and he opened
the door and saw the leper lying dead
across the body of his wife, both be-
ing in the room in the rear, used as a
kitchen.
An examination of the dead body of
the leper showed a wound in the right