The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-19

ting it up was interrupted by the grew
some discovery he made. The big fish
is only an object of horror to the ma
tives and South Sea islanders now.
The foot was positively identified at
the police station by Mrs Uhlbrecht as
that of her husband. She called at the
station at about II o'clock and asked
to be allowed ~ see the remains.
Friends tried to dissuade her from go
ing to look at them, as it was easy to
identify the foot by her description of
an ingrowing toe nail, but she desired
to make sure for herself. On looking
at the foot she stated that 1T was in fact
one of the feet of Emil Uhlbrecht.
The absence of any shoe led many
people to doubt that it was one of Uhl-
brechts feet, as the latter had shoes on
when he was drowned. The fact that
no shoe was on when the foot was
found this morning is taken as proof
that the body had been in the water for
some time before the sharks got at it.
In many cases of drowning, the clothes,
shoes and all, come off in the water,
and this is probably what happened in
the case of Uhlbrecht. This theory dis
poses of the idea that the young man
was attacked by sharks before he met
death in the water. They evidently
came upon his body some time after
life was extinct. The condition of the
foot also bears out this supposition, as
it had evidently not been very long in
the sharks body.
The shark caught this morning is
about the record size for these waters.
There have been catches of sharks fif-
teen feet long and a little over, but
they are rare. The monster which at
tackled Uhlbrechts body is an ordinary
fish shark" as it is called, not one of
the kind specially known as man-eaters.
When news of the discovery at Ka-
kaakO was circulated about town there
was a rush of sightseers to the scene
where the shark lay. Among them were
many cameras. The remains We're very
quickly removed so that most of the
people saw only the mutilated bodysof
the shark. - C-----
Captain Parker caught sight of some
more of the floating stomach in the
water where the fisherman had thrown
it, and he had it brought ashore for ex-
animation, but nothing was found in it.
Natives from the water front flocked
to the scene of the tragic discovery in
large numbers and fish stories were the
order of the day. Every native fisher
man has had lots of experiences with
sharks, which are abundant all round
the Islands. Large ones, however, are
seldom caught as near in shore as was
the one caught this morning. The ma
tives of old days used to have treaty"
which certain parts of the sea We're to
be free from warfare between the
sharks and the fishermen. From Pearl
Harbor to Waikiki was the neutral ter
ritory. Between those two limits it was
agreed that the natives should catch no
sharks, and in exchange for this i'm
munity the sharks, by their monarch,
agreed never to molest the native fish
ermen and bathers within the same
limit A huge rock which rises out of
the water at Pearl Harbor is the wit
ness of the king" who made the treaty
under which the natives for years felt
safe from the monsters of the deep.
Emil Uhlbrecht was drowned last
Sunday morning off Makapuu Point
where he was hunting for shells with
two companions. He ventured too far
out on the rocks and a breaker carried
him away. Other waves carried him
farther and farther from his compan-
ions till they saw him sink.