Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-01

place and took them out. We both
hid them again in separate places.
] took mine down to the beach
and hid it in the sand. Don't
know what Kapea did with his"
Resuming his story Marshal
Brown told Of subsequent devel-
opments as follows:
"Iokepa was then taken to the
place where he said he had buried
the pistol and the weapon was
found. The next move was to put
the whole family under arrest, in
Guiding a half. white named George
Rathburn and a native named
Upapa, who was at the house and
had heard the proposition to
murder DR.. Smith discussed. The
father and mother knew that DR..
Smith was to be murdered and It
may be they put the boys up to
it. We shall probably find that
out later
THE CoRONER's INQUEST.
"The inquest was held yester-
day before Judge Blake, the dis.
trict magistrate. The ouly wit
nesses examined were Drs. G mp
bell and Watt, the two boys Ioke-
ia and johnny and Deputy Sheriff
Hipa. The jury's verdict was that
DR.. j. K. Smith came to his death
from a pistol shot fired with
murderous intent by Kapea, and
that Upapa, Rathburn, Kaio and
Paupau we're accessories thereto.
"Tnese five defendants we're at
once committed for trial without
bail by the magistrate, and Mr..
Kinney went before Circuit Judge
Hardy and secured an order for
the detention Of lokepa, Johnny
and Pua as witnesses for the pro
scution They will all be kept in
Oahu Jail until the trial. l can't
say now whether that will be here
or on K ,uai. the Kauai term hav-
ing just ended"
THE MURDERER's PISTOL.
Replying to questions Marshal
Brown said Kapea had not mad
any confession, nor had he been
asked for any. When arrested
and charged with the murder he
was told that everything was dis.
cover d, AS his two brothers had
confessed. He was told the officers
would like to rec ,v-r the psto
with which the murder was com
united. He at once offered to
fluid it and took the Marshal
and others to stone fence not far
from Dr.. Smiths house, where b.
showed them where it Was hidden.
He has taken his arrest very cool
ly and has not volunteered any
statement.
In the searching examination
of the whole family conducted by
Mr.. Kinney, which finally ended
in the discovery, of the murderer,
everyone Of them was compelled
to account for every minute of
their time for a week preceding
the murder, but it was only by
getting the boy Johnny confused
and then half. soaring him to death
that Mr.. Kinney finally got at the
truth.
The above shows that the Bull
LETIN alone had the correct theo-
ry of the motives of the murder
and the statements made concern
ing it in the issue of September
q have been substantially veri
fed. The BULLETIN is the only
paper that made any mention Of
Deputy Sheriff Hipa's visit to the
Kaio house on the night OF the
murder. That officer says his
suspicious were first directed
against the family by general
talk about Koloa, the family hav-
ing been heard to make threats
against the doctor. o. the day
folio wing the murder a man re-
ported to him that he had seen
two men on horseback near the
Smith house and that he thought
the men were Kapea and Iokepa.
Miss Juliette Smiths constant
| ly repeated assertion that she
heard two horses galloping away