The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-07
Kaapuni Gives His Testimony Be-
fore the Coroner's Jury.
PACHECO DIES BY REVOLVER.
Trouble Over COw-Natiye Asks ,Officer to
Take Charge of Animal-Owner Arrives
and Makes ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Later
With IWhp Another Version Given. ETC.

Close on to o'clock Saturday morn
ing, J. G. Pacheco, a Portuguese keep
ing a small dairy in the vicinity of
G. w. Booths home, Pauoa, was shot
in the right breast by Kaapuni, a native
empowered by the Interior Office to
gather up estrays. The bullet from the
38-calibre revolver passed through the
right lung and lodged in the muscles
of the back. Internal hemorrhage set
in and Pacheco died early in the after
noon. He leaves a wife and several
children.
The following coroners jury was
summoned: Manuel Refs, Capt Shop
herd, F. Clifford, L. Marx, F. J. Scott
and ]. Radin.
The inquest was begun Sunday morn
ing, but owing to the absence at the
funeral of the deceased of some of the
witnesses, pOstponement until 1870 p.
m. today had to be taken. The testi-
mony of Kaapuni is in substance as
follows:
1T was between and o'clock Sat
urday morning when a native living In
Pauoa requested me to put certain
COW in the pound. 1t seems that the
animal had been trespassing on the
natives grounds. l refused to take the
COW unless she were driven into the
street. Native did this, and after las
soing the animal l started to take her
to the pound.
Met a Portuguese boy on the way
and asked him if he knew the owner
of the cow. Replied that he did, and
went after Pacheco Immediately. Ma
tive said to me he thought his premises
had been injured to the extent OF
dollar, and so 1 told Pacheco This
did not seem to please him at all, but
he promised to pay the dollar if would
take the cow back to the dairy. This
1 did, and Pacheco appeared again, this
time with long whip. He ran up and
slashed me, my horse and the cow with
it. his intention probably being to get
the COW away.
Il cried out to him to stop and l
would let the COW go, which did do in
short order. PachecO did not stop his
slashing, and just then large number
of Portuguese-men, women and chill
dren-came pouring out of neighbOr-
ing houses and began pelting me with
rocks and dirt. l stood as much as 1
could, and then drawing my revolver l
shot three times to scare off the crowd.
I then spurred up my horse, sped to
the police station and gave myself up.
Did not aim at any particular person.
Was simply trying to scare the Portu-
guese.'
SONS STATEMENT.
NJ C. Pacheco, son of the dairyman
who was killed, called at this office last
evening to refute the story told by an
evening paper regarding the quarrel
leading up to the shooting affray.
In the first place, he stated that his
father had never been arrested for stab
bling luna on HilO plantation. On
his arrival here he was contracted by
the WaiaIua plantation. Referring to
the quarrel, the son said his father met
Kaapuni and paid him 80 cents for the
release of the COW. The officer de-
manded $3.50, which PachecO refused
to pay, and started to drive his cow
home. Kaapuni, accompanied by Pu-
pue, followed after, and the former
tried to stop the animal by driving his
horse so as to step on the rope dragging
from the cows neck. This made Pa
checo angry and he struck at the Of
ficer with a carriage whip which he
carried. The officer returned the blows
with a rope he was carrying, and lind
ing he was getting the worst OF 1t,
pulled his revolver and fired, but miss
ed his adversary. This did not delay
Pacheco who drove his cow into the
pen. The officer again demanded the
extra dollar and the rope on the cows
a second shot was fired, Whereupon he
made a lunge at Kaapuni with his whip,
and the third shot followed, which
caused the fatal wound. PachecO got
on his horse and tried to diSmOunt at
his gate but fell to the ground. kaa-
puni rode down the street, and as he
was going away a Portuguese met him
and threw stone at him, which was
returned by another shot from the re-
volver.
M. c. Pacheco says that his father
had been drinking a little, but he was
not drunk. He also says there was not
a crowd of Portuguese around at the
time. as almost all the men in the VI
cinity were away from home at work.
There were many women and children
around but they scattered when the
shooting began. The son was away al
the time being employed in Robert
Grieve's printing office.
THE FUNERAL.
The funeral of the late J. c. Pacheco
took place from the Catholic Cathedral
at about 10 a. m. Sunday morning, RI.
Rev. Father Leonore officiating. The
church was crowded to the doors with
Portuguese.
After the services the casket was
wraDped in a Portuguese flag and plac-
cd in the hearse. The Portuguese band
struck up a funeral march and the pro-
cessian. headed by some seven hundred
Portuguese, members OF the Lusltana
Society and the Portuguese Union,
marched down Fort and out King to
the Catholic burying grounds, where
the remains were inferred.
F. Williams had charge OF the fu-
neral.