The herald., 1897-12-23
Find Justice in the Courts
of Hawaii
A M0L0KAI OUTLAW HANGED
MAUI MURDERERS SENTENCED
TO DEATH
The Peking Banking Company Pre-
pairing to Start a Branch Con-
Germ at Honolulu
Associated Press Special Wire

HONOLULU, Dec. Is, via San Fran
cisco, Dec. 22-Early last MONDAY
morning, Noa, the native Molokai out
law, paid the death penalty for the mur-
der of a Chinese storekeeper. The exc
cution 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 successful in every particular
Noa died without perceptible tremor
Half supported on his journey to the
gallows, he stepped with unfaltering
steps upon the death trap, and, straight
ening 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 assisted the guards
by holding his head high. When the
clergyman, who had followed the con-
demned man upon the scaf1old, COM
menced to pray Noa reverently bowed
his head. The minister, with eyes closed
and hand appraised, had not finished
when one Of the guards slipped the black
cap over the murderers head. warden
Low, standing in the court yard below,
looked at his watch. 1t was the slgnai.
With a rattle and bang the trap fell
and an instant after Meas body hung
dangling in midair. At the end of flf-
teen minutes the body was cut down and
removed to an adjoining she'd where
the autopsy was performed. AS had been
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brae of the neck had been dislocated
paralyzing the spinal cord, producing
almost instant death.
After the autopsy had been performed
the body was placed in plain coffin
and removed to the potter's field and in
tered at government expense.
The crime for which Noa was execu-
ted 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 cutthroats who
made their home in the Mookai mount
aims. For years they had terrorized the
neighborhood. Noa would go to the
greatest extreme to avenge real or
fancied wrong, cutting out the tongues
of his neighbors' cattle, laying death
traps for his fellow men in the woods
and practicing other like cruelties.
On the evening of April 7th, in COM
pany with two confederates, he broke
into the store of Asano, an aged Chi
nese, and, dragging the man out of bed,
beat his brains out with a 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 valuables and
hiding away in the mountains. Noa was
betrayed by relative and captured, but
afterwards escaped, and the officers had
a hard time to recapture him. He was
tried by Judge Carter and was SEN
fenced on Aug. 18th.
MAUI MURDERERS
Swift justice has been visited upon the
heads of the Maui murderers. Within
the week Sagata and Yoshide have been
convicted of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to death. The Lahaina
court has broken all records on murder
cases, having disposed of three in n
weeks time. Sagata was charged with
the murder Of his wife and children and
was caught redhanded. Yoshide stabbed
a Japanese woman to death with 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 Friday of March.
1885,
AN INSANE IMMIGRANT
]. w. CHINO, a dental student, who ar
rived from San Francisco 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-
sionally becomes erratic and noisy.
While on the Irmgard Captain Schmidt
noticed that he acted very 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.
BANKING BUSINESS
Announcement has been made that
another bank will be established in the
city shortly after the first of the year.
The new concern Is a branch Of the big
Peking Banking company. This COM
pany started in Tien Tsin and has
branch banks established in Hongkong,
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