The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-05-08
Consul q Brave NJ IN.

The criminal or criminals, however,
had naturally escaped long before the
police were even telephoned. The Por-
tuguese Consul did not seem to be
much upset by the nights event, and
look things very easily, showing abso-
lute.y no fear and begging his friends
TO return to their homes and beds, and
announcing it as his intention to go
back to bed himself.
People all over town yesterday were
talking about the explosion, and per-
sons who live a distance of mile or
two from the Canavarro residence say
that they distinctly heard the sound
of the explosion at an early hour in
The morning and wondered at the time
what had happened.
Scene of the Outrage.
The Canavarro residence is one of
several similar one-story cottages, sit
uated on the Waikiki side of Pensacola
| street, about half block mauka of XII
nau street; a white tiagpole stands in
| the moderately spacious yard, sur
mounted by blue ball, and the house
IS well known as the residence OF the
Portuguese Consul. The cottage faces
on Pensacola street and contains sew
en- rooms. The Consul's bedroom Is To-
Gated on the mauka side of the build
ing, between his Office in the front Of
The house and his sons bedroom. There
are three large-paned windows on the
mauka side; the Consul's Is the middle
window. About thirty feet of yard
separate the Canavarro home from the
next house towards the mountains, and
hedge divides this space in the mid
die the whole length of the lot. The
house is raised about two feet from the
ground aud is supported on posts rest
ing on stones laid in the ground.
Effect of Explosion.
An Advertiser reporter visited the
scene of the explosion yesterday and
examined the premises and the effects
of the internal machine. On the mau-
ka side of the house, just beneath the
Consul's bedroom window, was where
the damage had occurred. The lattice
work had been blown to pieces for
space of about eight feet; the post at
that place, which had rested on fiat
stone about ten inches square, had been
forced out from between the sill and
The stone; three of the floor boards
nearest to the window in the ConsuPs
room had been raised an inch or two
fl ON the beams and partially splinter
ed; the water pipe leading out from
under the house and connecting with
a hose nozzle in the yard, just below
the window, had been broken. twisted
and in several places plugged with
pieces of meal which had been con-
tanned in the bomb.
Boxes and flower pots, holding large
ferns, standing in row along the side
of the house, were in many cases blown
to pieces, the fragments being scatter
ed all over the mauka side of the yard
and strewn also in the neighboring
premises.
Little pieces OF iron and other metal,
which had been contained in the bomb,
had been thrown in some instances a
distance OF fifty feet. One piece was
shot into the side OF the next house,
just under the caves, making a hole
like that which is made by bullet.
Another scrap Of iron was fired
through the wire netting over the win
dow of the pantry OF the next house
and several fragments were embedded
in the treiliswork in the neighboring
yard, thirty feet from where the bomb
exploded. Powder marks were very
noticeable on the side OF the Canavar-
ro house, the manner in which the
boards were stained indicating that the
bomb exploded outside OF the building
and had not been placed beneath the
house, as many at first supposed.
Many Theories.
People who visited the scene OF the
explosion. neighbors and friends of
the Portuguese Consul General, had
many theories as to the manner in
which the damage had been done.
The general idea seemed to be that the
would-be assassin or assassins had
trept up beneath the Consul's bedroom