The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-23
HE ExPIATED HIS CRIME
The Hawaiian Outlaw Pays the
Penalty for Murder.
NATIVE MOLOKAI OUTLAW
It was Brutal and Cold-Blooded Honi-
cide-Noa Was the Leader OF a
Band of Cut Throats-K killed a
Chinese Shopkeeper.

I Honolulu. Dec. Is. via San Francisco
dec. 22.-Early last Monday morning
Noa. the native Molokai outlaw, paid
The death penalty for the murder of
chinese storekeeDer The execution
took place within the walls of the oahu
prison. Seven minutes after the death
trap had been sprung the heart of the
condemned man ceased to beat. and in
nine minutes the surgeons pronounced
life extinct. The execution was success
full in every particular. Noa died with
but perceptible tremor. Half sup
ported by two guards on his journey to
the gallows he stepped with unfaltering
step upon the death trap and, straight
sening up, he stood motionless while his
legs were bound with a strap. He
Showed no fear when the moose was adj
justed about his neck. but rather assist
ed the guards by holding his head high.
When the clergyman, who had followed
the condemned man upon the scaffold
commenced to pray, Noa reverently
bowed his head. The minister, with
eyes closed and hands appraised had not
finished when one of the guards slipped
the black cap over the murderer's head.
Warden Low. standing in the court
yard below, took out his watch. IT was
the signal With a rattle and bang the
trap fell and an instant after Noa's
body hung dangling in mdair.
The crime for which Noa was exc
cuted was one of the most brutal and
cold FLOODED murders in the criminal
annals of the islands. Noa was the
leader of a band of robbers and cut
threats of those who made their home
in the Moiokai mountains. For years.
they had terrorized the neighborhood
Noa would go to the greatest extremes
to avenge real or fancied wrong, cut
inn Ia re ,ir
cattle. laying death traps for his fell
low men in the woods. and practicnE
other like cruelties On the evening of
April Z, in company with two confed-
crates. he broke into the store of Asana
an aged Chinese, and pulling the man
out of bed. beat out his brains with
stone. Hee Shee, the storekeeper's wife.
was choked into insensibility and left
for dead The thieves then ransacked
the place carrying off all the valuab,es,
and hiding 1t away in the mountains.
Noa was betrayed by a relative and
captured but afterwards escaped, and
the officers had a hard time to recap
ture him. He was tried here by Judge
Carter and sentenced on Aug. IS last.
Swift justice has been visited upon
the heads of the Maui murderers. With
in the week. Sagata and yoshida have
been convicted of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to death. The
Iahaina court has broken all records
on murder cases. having disposed of
three in a weeks time. Sagata was
charged with the murder of his wife
and child and was caught redhanded
Yoshida stabbed a Japanese woman to
death with a knife and the evidence of
his crime was Just about as conclusive
as that against his fellow countryman
Sagata will be hanged on the last Fri
day 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 prison.
suffering from a mental unbalance. He
is rational most OF the time. but occa-
slonally becomes erratic and noisy
While on the Irmgard Captain Smith
noticed shat he acted peculiarly and
formed the belief that he is the victim
of morphine CHINO is but % years of
age. He has no friends here so far as
can be ascertained.
Announcement has been made that
another bank will be established in the
city shortly after the first of the year
The new concern Is to be a branch of
the big Picking Banking company. This
company started in Tien Tsin and has
branches in Hong Kong, Annoy and
other cities in China.
One of the officials of the Chinese
Banking company will probably arrive
In Honolulu soon after the holidays to
complete all arrangements for the OPEN
Ing of the bank.