The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-02
4 MOST -BLOODED DEED,
Mrs. Vina King Tries to Murder
Her Colored Lover.
HIT WITH A PICKAXB WHILE ASLEEP
The Rx-stsuardsss sf tae b. n. Castle
Attenpts to Kill George Washington,
Special Po1iceman-A Miraca1sus
HscaT,s from Death.

New Years Day was not spec
tally happy one for Mrs. Vina King,
the former stswardess of the bark
entine 8. n. Castle, and George
Washington, a special policeman
and the psramour Of the King
woman. For absolutely no reason,
other than that he had slapped her
in the face, she struck him on the
temple with pickaxe. If the man
does not die it will be only because
his head is harder than the average
humans.
Both parties to the affair are ne
groes. The man with the historic
name is a special policeman. On
Sunday night he was supposed to
go on duty at IL o'clock, and re-
main at his post at Manoa until 6
in the morning. Instead of attend
ing to his duty, however, he went on
spree, the consequences of which
may yet result in his death.
During Sunday afternoon Wash
ington and the King woman were
out driving in buggy, and were
apparently sober. Washington, who
! is known to be drinking man, was
warned that if he did not go on
duty at midnight, he would be dis
charged, and he promised faithful
| ly to do so.
The King woman has been hSsT y
ing at a house on Queen street,
kept by a man called Russian
Frank" ever since leaving her po-
sition on the Castle. Yesterday
| morning about 8 o'clock, Washing
ton came to the house, supposedly
in state of intoxication, and found
man named Powell, a colored ex-
pressman, in the room occupied by
the woman. He drove Powell out of
the house at the point of pistol,
and then started in to abuse the
King woman. She says that he
slapped her, and beat her and drove
her out of the house. He then
went to sleep in her room.
About 6 o'clock, according to the
woman's story, she came back into
the room, and seeing her whilom
lover asleep, was seized with a
desire for revenge on him, for beat
ing her. She went out into the
yard, and procured sharp pointed
! pick-axe. Coming back into the
room, she struck Washington,
while he was sleeping, the pick-axe
striking his left temple. The force
of the blow must have been terrific,
as fully five inches of the pick-axe
were covered with the blood and
hair of the unfortunate negro.
The woman than ran out into the
yard, and calling the owner of the
house asked him to telephone for a
doctor. This he did, at the same
time telephoning the police station.
An officer was Immediately sent to
the place, and the woman placed
under arrest, charged with assault
with deadly weapon.
| DR.. Wood, the physician sum-
lmoned, found Washington very
dangerously wounded. The sharp
pointed axe had struck just below
! the left temple, and glanced off,
striking the nose, and shattering
several of the bones in the front
part of his face. It was only by a
miracle that he escaped instant
death. IF the wound had been
anywhere else in the same vicinity,
death would have resulted instant
ly. AS it is, the man has slight
chance of recovery. It was impos-
| sible to tell yesterday whether or
not the skull was fractured. II
that should be found to be the
case, there is probably no doubt
that Washington will die.
The story, as told by the man, diff
fers in minor details only from that
told by the King woman. He says
that he found her with Pow
ell and was enraged at the sight /;
that he struck the woman but once,
and then not hard that he did not
beat her at all, but did drive her
out of the house. He lay down to
| sleep, and the next thing he knew