The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-10-01
NO FURTHER PARTICULARS YET
Marshal Brown and De.
tective KAPPA at Work.
Judge Carter and Attorney Kinney
Have Gone to the Scene.
Police All Busy.

The Ke Au Hou arrived from Koloa
yesterday morning with Gen. A. S.
Hartwell and Senator Waterhouse as
passengers. OF course, every one was
on the qui vive for news regarding the
recent Smith tragedy, but their hopes
of receiving at least a suspicion ID re-
gard to the guilty party were crushed
when all hands aboard reported that
absolutely nothing had been obtained
that could even furnish a clue. The
police authorities who went down on
the Ke Au Hou Sunday morning were
hard at work, and the police all ever
the Garden Isle were watching every
corner to see if they could not obtain
some information, but the tragedy was
shrouded in such deep mystery that
even suspicious were soon sent fly
ing to the winds.
In the absence of carrier pigeons or
any steamer later than the Ke Au
Hou, which left Koloa on the evening
of September 9th, the following let
ter from Marshal Brown to Deputy
Marshal Hitchcock must be taken as
the latest news of the tragedy, not
withstanding the fact that a published
statement has it that man of mixed
blood had been taken into custody by
the Marshal himself and would be held
for investigation:
"Koloa, Kauai, September 81, 1897.
Deputy Marshal Hitchcock:
Dear Strive are here at Koloa,
having arrived here this morning from
Lihue, where We spent the night
"As yet we are completely at sea as
TO the guilty parties and the few sus-
picions we had have for the most part
been upset.
Detective KAPPA and | have been
examining different parties almost all
day long, but cannot get hold of any
thing of any value.
THE steamer goes up this evening,
and Judge Hartwell will be a passen-
ger.
"Kaapa and l will probably go up
on the Makee Wednesday, unless some
thing turns up to put us on the trail.
The prospects are now that we shall
have to leave the thing in the hands
of the officers here.
Or Smith was buried Sunday after
noon, before our arrival. Yours truly,
"a. M. BROWN"
In regard to the developments in
the case, Mr. Hartwell said yesterday:
Il did not follow the investigations
very closely and do not know if any
arrests have been made"
Senator Rice, who came from Kauai
on the Mikahala Sunday morning, and
who returned again yesterday after
noon, said: 1.-THE information l gave
to an afternoon paper was to
the effect that bloody finger marks
had been found on certain part of
the veranda of the late DIR. Smiths
house. offered no theories as to how
the marks came there AS matter OF
fact, the imprint of thumb was found
on the other side of where the assassin
stood when he fired the fatal shot, or
between the door from whence Dr.
Smith emerged to his death, and that
of his sister Emma. From reports re-
ceived on the Ke Au Hou this morn
ing, l find that one of the ser
wants of the late DR.. Smith went
up on the veranda on the morning
after the tragedy. His nose was bleed
ing and in this way the thumb mark
was registered. From the very way in
which the tragedy occurred the suppo-
sition that the murderer left his mark
in blood is absurd.
CAS- to suspicious in regard to the
guilty parties can say nothing. When
/ left the Garden Isle no one was sus-
pected, and the letter received by the
Deputy Marshal today from Marshal
Brown shows conclusiyely that no clue
has as yet been obtained"
So it turns out that, after all, there
are no further particulars than those
published in the Advertiser Monday
morning, and that, if there really are
any suspicious, clues or arrests, they
will come up on the James Makee to-
morrow.
On the Mikahala yesterday afternoon
were booked as passengers Judge Car
ter, Attorney w. A. Kinney and B. L.
Marx. Judge Carter goes on behalf OF
the IdHlly, W. =. hIHuey " CoAuuOt
the Coroner's inquest in place of Mar
shall Brown, who is to return on the
Makee, and B. L. Marx as secretary
AS stated in Marshal Browns letter
to the Deputy Marshal, the body of the
late DR.. ]. K Smith was buried on Sun
day. the Rev. Hans Isenberg, assisted
by the Revs. J. M. Lydgate and Ka-
noho conducting the services. The
paT-bearers were: Senator G. N. Will
cox. Senator Henry Waterhouse, Albert
Wilcox, Alexander McBryde, Judge
Blake and Rev. Mr.. Kanoho.
The Government has offered re-