Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-21
PLEADS TWAS SELF-DEFENCE

Waikiki, August 10. = Yong
Mock Yee, held for murder of Lee
See, the Kula corn planter, is now
in Waikiki Jail. He was found
by Sheriff Baldwin and Deputy
Sheriff King of Makawao at Pu-
lehu, Kula, last Saturday. Pu-
lehu is in the Kula district and
distanced about six miles from the
scene Of the murder.
Mock Yee was put under arrest
being suspected as the man who
had killed Lee See, and was
brought to Kahului Jail. While
at the latter place and for several
days, the prisoner would not adj
NIT having committed the deed,
but made strong denial of hav-
ing any connection or ever having
heard of such An affair.
Alb Mi, the prominent wealthy
Chinaman of Kula, was allowed
to see the prisoner for the purpose
of getting from him some clue a.
to the murder. At first Mock Yee
persisted in saying that he knew
nothing about the murdered man,
but after time he admitted hav-
ing committed the deed and said
that he did it in self.defense.
Altho Mock Yee had told many
different stories, the following
is one Of them:
On the evening of Wednesday
the 9th inst., when he left his
house he told his folks that he
was going to Lee See to get some
ducks; Mock Yee is notorious
thief and his folks knew he WAS
going to steal the ducks 80 they
persuaded him not to 90 as he
would only get in trouble, but the
warnings were of no avail and he
went on his mission.
Sometime between IL and IL
o'clock that night, the prisoner
said, he got outside of Lee Sees
place at Kula and battle of clubs
soon ensued between them. Mock
Yee said that Lee See assaulted
him with knife and club, and
that in self defense he got hold
of Lee Sees club and with his
own knife cut his assailsnt's hand
but not before he received blow
in the head from Lee Sees club,
and Mock Yee lie still nursing the
cut he received from that blow.
II was in this scuffie that Mock
Yee overpowered Lee See, knock
ed him down and then stabbed
him on the chest, and then fed
for safety. The murderer
thought at fret that his victim
was only partially injured and
never expected that it was fatal
for he said, had he known that
Lee See was dead, he would have
taken his dead body to some lone
ly place and concealed it so that
no body, not even our ever wide
awake sheriff, would ever find the
corpse.
Mock zee is now lapguishing
in Waikiki Jail and the charge of
murder has been placed against
him. He is a small man, under
FIVE feet, and appears weak and
feeble that no one would ever take
him for q desperate murderer
When the charge of murder was
read to him this morning, Mock
Yee cried as baby and said that
be knew nothing about the MUIR
der.
The knife with which Lee See
was stabbed has not been found.
Sheriff Baldwin will hold a
coroner's inquest next Monday
When Mock zee was placed under
arrest by the sheriff, he could not
get single Chinaman in Kuls to
testify either for or against the
murder, for if there was anything
they abhored it is appearing as
witness in a murder case tha'
would take them away from their
farm for days and perhaps fol
weeks without adequate remuner.
alton therefor. The sheriff ha,
succeeded in obtaining about hall
a dozen witnesses for the prose
cution.