The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-06

Residents of Pauoa Valley were
startled shortly after o'clock yester-
day morning by two pistol shots
Investigation showed that they were
fired by Portuguese named Manuel
Freitas, who, in a fit OF Jealousy,
killed himself and nearly succeeded
in numbering his mistress. The in
jured woman was taken to the hosIi-
tai, where she lies between life and
death.
The woman, whose name was
Iizarda P,stano, was widow and
had been living with Freitss for
nearly five years. About month
ago they quarreIled and the woman
lett him, hiring a room in the house
where she was shot. PestanO, who
has been out of work for some time,
became imbued with the idea that his
reereant love was becoming too init.
mate with the owner of the house,
and he resolved to have revenge. Two
or three days ago he purchased
pistol at Hall & Sons.
Yesterday morning Freitas went to
the house of the woman. He fl st
called at neighbOI's and asked if the
woman was at home. He was told
that they did not know anything
about her. Freitas then went next
door and tried TO get in the house. The
door was locked, ami he then opened a
window aud crawled in. The next
nf
the affair, they heard a
shrek, as of a woman in
fear, and then one pistol shot quickly
foiio~ ell by another. a few seconds
after, the door of the cottage opened
and the woman rushed from the
house screaming. She fell to the
ground and lay grooming. When the
neighbors reached her she was nearly
insensible. Her little three year old
child had thrown himself on his mo
TIERS body and was trying to wipe
the blood from the unfortunate wo-
mans face.
The police station was at once COM
muuicated with, and an officer went
to the scene of the crime. Doctor
C..Cper was also summoned. When
the policeman arrived, he found the
man lyIng dead in the house, a bullet
thro lgII his brain. He had shot HIM
out at the top of the head. He had
bled terribly. The floor of the little
room iG which he was found was
nearly covered with the blood of the
dead man.
Frtitas had evidently surprised the
woman as she was working. a white
dress, stretched over an ironing board,
and hot iron showed what her o, Gu
patton had been. The dress was
ifh nft
clothes hanging OH the wall. Freitas
must have fired the pistol at close
range, as the woman's face showed
powder marks. The tall entered just
to the left of the right eye, in al OBJ
H4ue direction, coming out above the
lett temple. The left eye was SO badly
injured that it will have to be re-
moved today.
The pistol used was q new American
double action revolver, carrying A
calibre cartridge. Tue wounds were
! terrible ones, the large bullets crash
Ing through the bones and shatterine
them.
Freitas was member of Company
G., of the National Guard. He VIII
be buried by that company this after
noon The little boy, the son + + rel
tas and the woman, IL beng cared 70
by his godfather. Duiii 6 the inquest
hV'N at iAc SOChC Va lAt yNStSA
day, the little fellow was running
around the house, and several time
he entered the room where his tathe
was lying on the floor, dead, but h
was too young TO fully realize III
bereavement. He will he well care
for until his mothers recovery, j
she does recover. Freitas is said /
have had considerable money on de
pOsit i'll the POsth Savings Bark.
Thsa m h he
condition at y o'clock last night d
when she was taken TO the ho>piIa
Her recovery is doubtful.