The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-11
A Chinese Boy Almost Dis
emboweIed.
ATTACKED On A STAIRWAY.
Stabbed without Warning-A Plan
tatIon Laborer the Culprit.
Escapes but l. Captured Later-The
wounded Man I'm the Hospital.

What may prove fatal stabbing
took place in a Chinese lodging
house on Hotel just off Maunakea
street between 3 and 4 pm. Sun
day. All York, a fifteen year old
Chinese lad was stabbed in the alb
domen by Wong Look, and now
lies in a critical condition at the
Queens Hospital.
Wong Look was formerly plan
tation laborer on Kauai and came
to Oahu about four months
ago, obtaining work at Heeia.
Just recently he came to Honolulu
on account of illness and took a
room next to that of All York, who
occupied one with his uncle, Tong
Chez, the landlord.
Wong Look disappeared Satur-
day night and returned to his room
at o'clock Sunday morning. He
was drenching wet, and after hang
ing his clothes in the window, re-
tired to bed, rising at about Z
o'clock. During the morning he
was very busily engaged in sharp
ening a butcher knife with a file
He lounged about his room saying
nothing to anyone and acting
strangely.
Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the
afternoon All York went down
stairs with two buckets, and after
filling them with water returned |
indoors and was stabbed by Wong
Look on ascending the stairs.
No one saw the occurrence, but .
it is supposed that as the boy was
ascending Wong Look rushed down
from his room and stabbed him be-
fore he knew what was happening.
When the police officer on duty
near the place arrived on the spot
the boy was found doubled up at
the foot of the stairs. Both the
buckets were near him, and in a
dark corner the butcher knife, COW
cred up to the hilt with blood, was
found. The wound appeared as if
the boy had been stabbed and the
knife wound around two or three
times The victim was removed
to the hospital and his injuries at
tended to.
Immediately after stabbing the {
boy Wong Look escaped over the
back fence toward No. ) engine
house. He was seen in company
with another Chinaman and two '
native women living in the vicinity.
Detective KAPPA sent men out I
on the track of Wong Look as {
quickly as possible. 1t is supposed 1
that he made for the other side of '
the island, where he has a cousin.
One of his friends, who lived in
the same room with him, was ar {
res ted and held for investigation. {
About a quarter past II last {
night information was received at
the station house that the stabber
was in the neighborhood of the |
rooms of the Tong Hing Society. q
Lieutenants Hart and Needham, q
with some officers, were dispatched '
10 the locality, and on arrival were
to a room in a two-stOry
house opposite. Needham went up
stairs and found his man
behind a door. He
was at once placed under :
arrest and taken to the station |
house and identified by a China r
nan who lived in the same house. !
He was afterwards taken to the
Queens Hospital and identified by I
he wounded boy, who, up to that a
line, had been getting along nice
y, but after seeing his assailant he t
began vomiting blood. t
1t was learned last night that Y
he boy was very frugal and saved d
Ill the money he earned except s
what was actually necessary for his o
expenses. t
The supposition is that the pris-
,ner intended ransacking his room a
he had succeeded in his attempt s
o kill him. 3
The prisoner will have a hearing t
his morning, and will probably be b
pound over until the wounded man +
: able IN aDDear aoainst him II