The record-union., 1897-12-23

HONOLULU, Dec. 10 (via San Fran
cisco. Dec. 22.)-Swift justice has been
visited upon the heads of the Maui
murderers Within the week Sagata
and Yoshida have been convicted of
murder in the first degree, and sem
fenced to death. The Lahaina court
has broken all records on murder cases,
having disposed of three in a week S
time.
Sagata was charged with the muir
der of his wife and child, and was
caught red-handed. Yoshida stabbed
japanese woman to death with a
knife, and the evidFlce of his crime
was just about as conclusive as that
against his fellow countryman. Sa-
gaia will be hanged on the last Friday
of March, 1898.
J. w. CHINO, a dental student who
arrived from San Francisco a few days
ago on the barkentine Irmgard, is con-
fined in a padded cell in the city prfs-
on, suffering from a mental unbalance
He is rational most of the time, but
occasionally becomes erratic and noisy
While on the Irmgard Captain Schmidt
noticed that he acted peculiarly, and
formed the belief that he is the vic
tim of morphine. CHINO is but y
years of age. He has no friends here
as far as can be ascertained.
Early last Monday morning, Noa, the
native Molokai outlaw paid the death
penalty for the murder of a Chinese
storekeeper. The execution took place
within the walls of the Oahu Prison.
Seven minutes after the death trap
had been sprung the heart Of the con-
demned man ceased to beat, and in nine
minutes the surgeons pronounced life
extinct The execution was success
ful in every particular.
Noa died without a perceptible tre-
NOR. Half supported on his journey to
the gallows, he stepped with unfalter
ing step upon the death trap, and
Frightening up, stood motiOnless while
his legs were bound with a strap. He
showed no fear when the moose was
adjusted about his neck, but rather as
sisted the guards by holding his head
high. When the clergyman who had
followed the condemned man upSl the
scaffold comenced to pray Noa rever-
emily bowed his head. The minister,
with eyes closed and hand upraised. had
not finished when one of the guards
slipped the black cap over the muir
derer's head Warden Low, standing
in the courtyard below, took out his
watch. It was the signal. With a
rattle and bang the trap fell, and an in
stant after Noa's body hung dangling in
midair.
At the end Of fifteen minutes the body
was cut down and removed to an adj
joining shed, where the autopsy was
performed. AS had been expected. it
was found that the vertebrae OF the
neck had been dislocated. paralyzing
the spinal cord. producing almost in
stant death After the autopsy had
been performed the body was placed in
a plain coffin and removed to Potter's
field and inferred at Government ex-
pense.
The crime for which Noa was exc
cuted was one of the most brutal and
cold-blooded murders in the criminal
annals Of the islands Noa was the
leader of a band of robbers and cut
throats who made their home in the
Molokai Mountains For years they
had terrorized the neghborhood. Noa
would go TO the greatest extremes to
avenge a real or fancied wrong, cut
ting out the tongues of his neighbor's
cattle. laying death traps for his fell
lowmen in the woods. and practic.ng
other like crueties.
On the evening of April 18th. in COM
pany with two confederates, he broke
into the store OF Asano, an aged Chin
ese. and dragging the man out of bed,
beat out his brains with a stone. Hee
Shee, the storekeeper's wife. was choke q
into insensibility and left for dead. The
thieves then ransacked the place. car
rying off all the valuables, and hiding
away IN the mountains. Noa was be-
trayed by a relative and captured. but
afterwards escaped. and the officers
had hard time to recapture him. He
was tried here by Judge Carter. and
was sentenced on August 18th last.
Announcement has been made that
another bank viii be established in the
city shortly after the first Of the year
The new concern is TO be a branch of
the big Peking Banking Company. This
company started in Tien Tsin. and has
branch banks established in Hongkong.
Annoy and other cities In China. One
Of the officials of the Chinese Bank
ing Company viii probably arrive in
Honolulu soon after the holidays 20