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

Continued from Ist rage.
his capacity of Government physi.
clan had ordered the woman Pau
pau and the girl Pus to report
for examination as leper suspects.
This furnished the only possible
clue we had to the motive for the
murder"
JoHNNY's STORY.
"When Attorney Kinney had
got young Johnny all mud
died up in his testimony and be.
ing satisfied that he was not i'm.
plicated in the murder, he told
him that if he would tell the
whole truth no harm would come
to him, but that if he persisted
his contradictory testimony would
be enough to send him to prison.
The boy then broke down and
said that on the night of the muir.
der his brothers Kapea aud Ioke-
pa with himself we're supposed to
be sleeping in the diningroom of
the house. About 9. o'clock
Kapea and Iokepa had gone
out into the corral, saddled
their horses and gone off. They
returned he thought about IL
o'clock. He heard them ride into
the corral, let loose their horses
and come to bed. They had only
been in bed a few minutes when
Deputy Sheriff Hipa came to the
door and commenced asking il
every one was at home. His
father had answered that the three
boys we're asleep in the dining
ROOM"
"As only one man fred the fatal
shot" resumed the Marshal, "Mr.
Kinney quickly decided that Ka-
pea, the eldest boy, was the Que.
Acting on that he had Iokepa
brought up again for examination
but for long time he stuck to his
story that he had not been ont of
the house that night. Finally Mr..
Kinney told him his younger
brother had confessed and that if
he would do likewise he would be
used as witness for the prosecu
ton and receive immunity from
punishment. He jumped at the
offer and his confession was taken
down on the spot by Mr., Marx"
IoKEPA's CONFESSION.
"When DR.. Smith ordered my
stepmother and sister to report
for examination as lepers we were
ell very mad. We talked about it
good deal and it was settled that
DR.. Smith should be killed. We
thought il he was out of the way
they would not have to go to Mo.
iokai. On the Wednesday night
before the murder Kapea and my
self went down to the doctors
plantation and set fire to the cane
hoping that the doctor would
come down and in the excitement
we could kill him in the cane. We
both had pistols. He did not
come but sent a lot of men down
instead who put the fire out.
"The next night, Thursday, we
rode down to the DOCTORS place
and hid our horses in the bushes
opposite the house. We went in
to the yard and stayed around the
house for three hours waiting for
a chance to kill him but he did
not appear. We got tired of watch
ing and went home.
ION Friday night there was q
concert at the church opposite
DR.. Smiths and we had to wait
until all the people had gone
home. We thea rode into the
grounds through the nauka g tie
up to about thirty fert of the room
the doctor was in. We could zee
him through the blinds Kapea
got off his horse and threw the
birdie to me to hold. He then
went to the edge Of the verandah
and knocked. DR.. Smith answered
zoe keln 2" Kapea granted IN
return but did not answer, The
doctor then opened the door and
as he DID so Kapea took three
steps across the verandah and
printing his pistol at the d ctor's
left breast fred. He was not
more than two feet away when be
fred. The doctor f II inside the
dnl,r and Kapea turned round, ran