The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-04
ATTEMPT AGAINST PORTUGUESE
CONSUL. aae .-
Miscreant Explodes a Bomb Under \.
de Souza Canavarro's House-Narrow
Escape From a Great Disaster.

morning to blow up the residence OF
"A. de Souza Canavarro, the Consul
General for Portugal. This is the sec
ond attempt of the kind within two
years,
The method used was the placing of
a bomb on the base stone just outside
the house. The result was an explOs-
ion that was heard all over town, which
wrecked all the windows on that side
of the house, and some in the house
of e. r. Hendry next door; which
scattered missiles all about, some of
them crashing through the floor into
the room where Mr.. Canavarro was
asleep; some of them burying them
selves in the side of Mr.. Hendry's
house; some splintering the flooring
in Mr.. Canavarros house, and other
similar damage.
Mr.. Canavarro's residence is on the
Waikiki side of Pensacola street, about
| half a block mauka of Kinau. 1t is a
One-story cottage surrounded by an am
PIE though not extensive yard. The
| house is raised about two feet above
the ground, supported on timberS
which rest on base stones. The space
between the ground and the house Is
enclosed with lattice work. Mr.. Cana
Varro's sleeping apartment is in the
center of the house on the mauka side,
the window in the room being about
the middle of that side of the house.,
| Just under this window was one of the
| timbers resting on a base stone, sup
! porting the house, and at this point
! also the water pipe protrudes through
| the lower coping board of the house
! with a cock for attaching hose. 1t was
on this base stone that the bomb was
| placed, the lattice work preventing it
| being placed under the house, though
! 1t would seem that a lattice Slat or two
! could easily have been torn off enabling
| the bomb to be placed under the house.
| The explosion occurred at lis or 1:20
o'clock this morning, everybody in the
| neighborhood being awakened by it,
I and all agreeing on that time. The
| bomb would seem to have been charged
| with powder and not dynamite the
smell after the explosion being readily
| recognizable. 1t is hard to say of what
material the shell of the bomb was
made, probably of some vitrified ma
terial, from the fragments scattred
| about. In addition the miscreant seems
to have placed flower pot over it be-
fore exploding it.
| With the ,eNploeien,, the timber rest
! ing on the base. stone was blown out
of place. The lattice work for several
feet on each side was destroyed The
| lower coping board along the side of
| the house was split and shattered The
water pipe was broken into just under
| the house Two of the floor boards in
! Mr.. Canavarro's sleeping apartment
were split and sprung upward And at
| least dozen small fragments either OF
! the shell of the bomb or of the flower
pot covering it were shot through the
! floor into the sleeping room, making
| ragged holes such as bullets would
make, only in irregular shapes and ct
| varying sizes.
! Mr.. CanavarroS bed was about two
feet from the window, the head toward
| the maUka wall of the house. Between
the bed and the window was a small
stand upon which was lamp, un-
lighted and Mr. Canavarro's eye
! glasses. The stand was set a tottering
but was not tipped over. The lamp
however was overturned toward the
| wall, and both lamp and chimney
broken, the oil spilling on the wall ard
| running down on the floor The eye
glasses were thrown to the floor, but
We're not broken. The window in the
room. a window composed of four very
large panes of glass, was shattered to
fragments. Every pane of glass was
broken into small fragments. The other
| window on that side of the house about
ten feet farther back from the street
was also broken, almost into as small
pieces.
e. r. Hendry's house is just mauka
of Mr.. CanaVarrO'S, separated by hi
fifteen or twenty feet. The upper half
Of a window in this house. almost di-
rectly opposite where the bomb was
placed, was shattered, and a dozen
fragments of the shell of the bomb
were buried in the walls of the house.
The damage done by the explosion,
counted in dollars and cents is COM
paratively small.
Mr. Canavarro says that he was
asleep at the time of the explosion, and
awakened rather by the vibration and
| shaking of the house caused by the
explosion, than the noise, which did not
sound as loud in his room as it seems
to have done outside. All the inmates
OF the house were awakened, but no
one was injured.
The noise of the explosion was heard
as far away as the police station, and
| by everyone in the neighborhood A
great many people got out of their beds
TO learn what the matter was, and all
the immediate neighbors came to the
scene. The police were promptly noti-
he'd that an explosion had taken place
at Mr.. CanaVarrO's house, but lost
some time in getting to the scene be-
cause they first went to where Mr. Ca
navarro formerly lived. A close eX-
animation of the appearance of things
were made, and an immediate investi-
cation was commenced. Mr. Cana
Narro thinks it was the work of de-
mented man who has a fancied grieV-
ance, against him., and it is upon this
theory that Marshal Brown is work
ing.
About year and a half ago a similar
attempt was made at Mr.. Canavarro's S
residence, then on Beretana street,
opposite where the late DIR. Hyde lived.
Two men are under suspicion of hav.
ing been the miscreants who fired the
bomb, and they are being looked for
by the police. They are known to have
a grudge of long standing against Mr..
Can&Varro. They live on the other end
of the island but are known to have
been in town last night.
NEW LIVERY.