The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-04-24
NoA is CAPTURED
The Molokai Murderer
Caught by Relative.
Applied for Food and Was Given
Up-Returned on the Steamer
Mokolii Last Night

| NCa, The Molokai murderer, who
| mashed the head of his Chinese vic
tim with a rock, plundered his store
| Eith the aid of two other raScals and
| then hid in the mountains, what had
been taken, has been captured, and is
now safely locked behind prison bars,
with no longer any avenue of escape.
The Mokolii, which arrived shortly aft
eli midnight last night, brought the
| much-talked-of criminal to Honolulu.
| The story, as told by Purser Beckley,
Of the Mokolii, is as follows:
! g.'Noa escaped or Thursday a week
ago, and after having lodged the bull
let's from Sheriff Trimble's revolver,
made straight for Pelekunu, where he
has friends and relatives. This place
he reached on Friday. and. feeling very
tired and hungry, he went to the house
of an old relative to ask for something
70 eat Something in the manner of the
makamaka' made him suspicious, and
he went back into the mountains
I'm the meantime, the old man had
told his son, and the latter went into
the bushes, with the hope that Noa
might make a second appearance. In
not many hours before the murderer,
nearly starved to DEATH approached
the house the second time The old
man was as good and hOspitable to NOa
as he could possibly be, and kept him
about the place until Tuesday last.
While he was eating lunch the old man
made a signal, the son appeared from
behind the bushes, and all was up with
NOa. The son calmly said to the muir
derer: Eat until you have finished
your meal, and then | am going TO
arrest you
Haven't you any aloha for your
relations?' asked Noa.
No replied the young man. Not
when they do such deeds as you and
disgrace the family
Noa saw that there was nothing for
him to do but to succumb quietly, as
he was completely at the mercy of the
old man and his son. who. dazZled at
the prospect of receiving the sum of
$500 as a reward for the capture of
the murderer, kept watch over him like
eagles
''On Wednesday the Mokolii arrived
and Noa was taken to PUkoo and lock-
ed in the jail. Yesterday afternoon he
was brought on board in handouts,
and in charge OF a staIwart policeman.
to be brought to Honolulu"
AS Purser Beckley finished relating
the story of the capture, Officer Charles
Opunui appeared on the wharf leading
Noa. with rope attached 10 the hand
cuffs on his wrists. The murderer look
ed worn out and emaciated. In place Of
a big strapping fellow, there stood be
fore the eyes of the many who had
gathered on the wharf to catch
glimpse of the notorious criminal,
short, slender, squinty-eyed man, with
a crouching figure and a short beard,
the perfect picture of a sneak-thief
Upon being questioned in regard to
the matter he tried to look innocent
and declared that he knew nothing at
all about the killing of the Chinamap.
AS to his hiding in the mountains, he
remarked that it was frequently his
habit to tramp through the mountains
from place to place. In fact, he had
done this kind of thing from boyhood.
Deputy Marshal Hitchcock did not
return on the Mokolii. He told the
captain of the Mokolii to wait for the
Mauna Loa off Kawnakakai, so that
he could get his mail and then board
her for Honolulu When he went
alongside the Mauna LOa in his boat
he found that his mail was locked in
the bag, and that the key was ashore.
BY this time the MokoIii had gotten
up full steam. and had met and passed
the Mauna Loa. Hitchcock had to have
his mail so ne concluded to go back TO
Kawnakakai. and so the Mokolii came
on without him.