The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-09-29
Marshal Brown and De.
tective KAPPA at Work.
Judge Carter and Attorney Kinney
Have Gone to the Scene-Po-
lice 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
Oh receiving at least suspicion IN 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 over
the Garden Isle were watching everv
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 An
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
W1thstanding the fact that a published
statement has it that a man of mixed
blood had been taken into custody by
the Marshal himself and would be held
for investigation:
'Koloa, Kauai, September 27, 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-
p1clons we had have for the most part
been upset.
detective Kaapa and I have been
examining different parties almost all
lay long, but cannot get hold of any
hing of any value.
The steamer goes up this evening.
md Judge Hartwell will be a passen-
ger.
''Kaapa and / will probably go up
N the Makee Wednesday, unless some
hing turns up to put us on the trail.
The prospects are now that we shall
lave to leave the thing in the hands
If the officers here.
DR.. Smith was buried Sunday after
loon, before our arrival Yours truly.
"a. NJ. BROWN"
In regard to the developments in
he case, Mr.. Hartwell said yesterday:
I did not follow the Investigations
'ery closely and do not know if any
rrests have been made''
|
IN the Mikahala Sunday morning, and
Who returned again yesterday after
loon, said: "The information | gave
o an afternoon paper was to
he effect that bloody finger marks
lad been found on a certain part Of
he veranda of the late DR.. Smiths
lOuse | offered no theories as to how
he marks came there. AS a matter of
act, the imprint of a thumb was found
n the other side Of where the assassin
TODD when he fired the fatal shot, or
Detween the door from whence DR..
smith emerged to his death, and that
# his sister Emma. From reports re-
eived on the Ke Au Hou this morn
ng, I find that one of the ser
ants of the late DIR. Smith went
p on the veranda on the morning
fter the tragedy. His nose was bleed
ng and in this way the thumb mark
Tas registered. From the very way in
Thich the tragedy occurred the suppo-
itiOn that the murderer left his mark
4 blood is absurd.
GAS to suspicious in regard to the
uilty parties I can say nothing. When
left the Garden Isle, no one was sus-
ected, and the letter received by the
Deputy Marshal today from Marshal
rown shows conclusively that no clue
as as yet been obtained
So it turns out that, after all, there