The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-01
THE kauai MURDER.
The supposed Murderer of DR.. j. X
Smith Now in Oahu Jail Five
uawaiians Implicated.

morning from haual, bringing as
passengers the Attorney General,
Judge Carter, the Marshal, Mr.. w.
A. Kinney, Deputy Sheriff Coney,
Detective KAPPA and others who
have investigated the Smith murder
case
Eight Hawaiians implicated in
the murder were also brought to
town, AID are now confined in Oahu
prison.
The authorities have left no stone
unturned in discovering the per-
petrator OF the foul assassination,
aud through the good work OF Mr..
w. A. Kinney, sufficient evidence
was unearthed TO arrest and try
several men, who now will await
hearing before jury Of their peers.
The following are the facts OBJ
tanned by the authorities, which
eventually caused the arrest and
prosecution OF the parties now in
Jail.
Kaiu, half-caste of Malayan ex-
traction, was living at Koloa with
woman named Paupau with whom
he had one child young girl, Pua
| by name. The woman and the
child were suspected as lepers and
ordered to report at Honolulu by
Dr. Smith. Kaiu has three legiti-
mate sons, Kapea, Iokepa and John
aged 20, 18 and 16 years respective
ly. The young men are cowboys
and arc evidently tough characters.
Kapea aud Iokepa planned to kill
DR.. Smith in revenge of his COM
hitting their half sister and the
mistress of their father to the
station for suspected lepers,
On Wednesday, the 22nd of Sep
TENDER they set fire to a canefeld
belonging to DR.. Smith, expecting
him to come out, when they would
have killed him and tried to escape
under the excitement caused by the
fire. As the doctor did not put in
an appearance their plan was frus-
trated, and the fire was extinguished
by the employees of Mr.. Smith.
The following day the two men
rode to the doctors premises, hid
their horses in the bush, and waited
three hours for a chance to get him
outside alone. The opportunity did
not offer and they went back to
their home, which is two miles dis
tant from the Smith residence
In spite of their failures they per-
sisted in carrying their horrible
plan to an issue, and on Friday,
after concert in the church oppo-
site the Smith residence, their vic
tim was lured from his room, and
was shot dead by Kapea in the door
way. The horses had been left in
charge Of Iokepa about 80 feet away
from the room occupied by Dr.
Smith, while Kapea committed the
horrible deed.
immediately after the murder the
men mounted their horses and gal,
loped away. They left the premises
, through another gate, and made a
circuit of three miles at least, pass
ing the sugar mill before reaching
their home, where they unsaddled
their horses and went to bed, pre-
, tending to be asleep, when half ar
hour later a posse, composed Of the
/ deputy sheriff, two policemen and Z
Portuguese luna, arrived in search
of the murderer OF the doctor.
AS soon as the Marshal arrived ;
thorough Investigation was started
aud man named Kahalii was helC
under arrest on suspicion, but late
on liberated.
; Mr.. Kinney then arrived and thu
: suspicious against the Kaiu famil,
laid before him. The members o
the family were called separated.
before him, and he succeeded il
= drawing certain information from
the boy John in regard to the fir,
and planning of the murder,