The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
MAY LIVE
To SUFFER
Murderer Pueo Grows
Strong.
He EATS THROUGH A TUBE
Uxoricide at the Queens Hospital
Has Good Chance to
Survive.

Pueo, the native who killed his wife in
Palama ten days ago, will live to stand
trial for his crime. At the Queens Hos
pital he is gradually recovering his
strength and unless something unforeseen
happens he will in few weeks be practi-
cally out of danger.
But it will be long before that great
cash which Pueo cut in his throat in the
vain and desperate endeavor to kill HIM
self after numbering his wife will be clos
ed. Gradually nature is doing its best to
re pair the damage done in that awful mo-
nent The edges of the cut are gradually
drawing together and the wound is
trife less wide than at frst, but still the
wound gapes frightfully and the severed
trachea is open SO that the injured
man breathes through the orifice instead
of through the passage designed by ma
ture for such purposes. DIR. Wood hopes
eventually to be able to stitch the wound
together and close it completely. but 1t
will be long before he will be able to do
so, and when he does it is likely that he
will be compelled to draw down the head
until it will be difficult for Pueo to look
upwards.
At present Pueo is taking his ease in
the hospital and he seems to suffer little
pain and to be fairly comfortable. He
takes his meals regularly through a rub
Der pipe put into the mouth and passed
down his throat past the wound. He Is
fed on milk and eggs and sherry and he
seems to thrive on that diet, for he is not
losing any flesh and seems to enjoy his
meals thoroughly. He asked for some
pol yesterday. but Superintendent Eek
hardt had to refuse him. During the
greater part of the day the wound is
loosely bandaged, light gauze being first
placed over the wound and the bandage
wrapped over 1t.
Gradually Pueo is recovering his pow
lers of speech. He cannot talk plainly
lyet nor very loud, but he can make his
waits known and he has conversed on
one or two occasions for a considerable
period with his nurses. He prefers to
talk In the native tongue, although he
understands and speaks English well
enough when in normal health. His prin-
lcipal difficulty in speaking English is the
ARTICULATION. for the muscles of the throat
he.I so badly sayered. it is hard for him
| to move his lips. OF his crime Pueo
speaks little, although he has referred to
lit once or twice in speaking with the ma
tiv, attendants. To Superintendent Eek
hardt he tells only of his condition, talk
ing in English though with difficulty.
| Yesterday Pueo received visit from
his 13-year-old daughter The little girl
remained with him for some time and he
Seemed much comforted by her presence,
although he said little to her. In the aft
err con he was carried out on the veranda
on stretcher and remained out of doors
| for some time.
| DR.. Wood in an interview with an Ad-
| yertiser man yesterday said that Pueo's
&c ndition Is steadily improving and that
his progress exceeded the most sanguine
Expectations.
| The patient is fed twice a day and when
lsat.ated with food he signifies it by max
ing motions to that effect. He can talk
on account of the wound having been
made above the larynx, where the vocal
organs are situated
| Dr. Wood thinks that 1t will be two
months before the wound is closed up suf-
lfciently to warrant him performing the
final operation of stitching together the
iwird-pipe, which, of course. will have to
be done. Unless blood poisoning sets in,
of which there is no immediate prospect,
the chances of Pueo's ultimate recovery
| are very good.
| Pueo's neck is lightly bandaged, but he
! is able. when requested to by the doctors.
lby leaning back or inclining his head for
ward, to make the wound yawn or close
at will.
! Pueo breathes through his neck as COM
fcrtably and naturally as in the normal
manner. His wound is gradually granu-
lating at the sides and the only thing
which seems liable to effect a setback In
his condition is the deep depression to
which he is subject very frequently.