The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-08-08
EATS THROUGH HIS NECK SAILORS LOVE BOOZE
PUEO MAY YET LIVE TO BE
HANGED.
He Also Breathes Through That Neck
for Which the Hangmans Halter is
Waiting With Sinister Patience.

With a deep cash in his throat. that
sewers the oesophagus, the larynx and
grazes the carotid arteries, Pueo the
murderer lies gasping between life and
| death at the Queens hospital. The hor-
| rible wound which brought him so close
to death is strangely enough serving
the purpose now of reviving the patient
| and perhaps saving his life for the gal
lows. With a sinister regard for the
ultimate fate of the man, if he is saved
| from suicides death, nature is utiliz-
ing that part of his anatomy for which
blind justice is waiting to encircle her
cord of retribution.
Pueo breathes through his neck. He
is fed through his neck and it is to his
neck that all of the attention of the
physicians is directed.
In spite of the fact that the wound
is five inches deep and cuts every OBJ
struction clear to the spinal column,
Pueo stands an excellent chance of re-
! covering. In fact he manifested a de-
sire this morning to live. Whatever
may be their personal beliefs in the
matter the physicians have no other
course than that of trying to humor
him in this latest wish
When the officers found the body of
Pueo, in Palama Monday night lying
bloody by the side of his wife whom he
had murdered they were sure that he
| too was dead. Although the blood was
| flowing from the gaping wound in his
neck he soon revived and had sufficient
strength to hand a letter to the officers.
! When examined at the Queens Hospi-
tai it was stated by the physicians that
| he could not live an hour. That was
| forty hours ago and he is hourly gain
ing strength.
DR.. G. b. Wood and DR.. Cooper the re-
gular physicians of the institution, con-
Ng4tN .I..sI
any attempt to close the hideous wound
would be attended with fatal results.
! Probably unacquainted with anatomy
PueO did not know the location of the
+ carotid arteries or even realized their
/ existence. He had heard, no doubt, that
| to cut ones throat was a sure
method of death but he did not realize
that in order to produce this result it
was necessary to sever one or both of
| the carotid arteries which lie on either
| side of the Adams apple. He did the
best he could though and when he fell
! by his victim, the keen edge of the ra-
Zor had cut through five inches of flesh,
muscle, larynX and oesophagus to the
! spinal column. The wound was dressed
and as there was no danger of the man
bleeding to death the physicians had
| nothing else to do but to wait for hiui
to die. In order to strengthen him he
was fed artificially but the method was
of the most temporary characted and
not calculated to sustain him for any
| length of time.
This morning Pueo showed signs of
regaining strength and then DR.. Wood
| informed him that he proposed to feed
! him through a pipe. Although PueO
| has lost the faculty of speech tempora-
rily he indicated his willingness to ac-
cept the treatment, so a quart of milk
! and three raw eggs were conveyed
] : nh Y11a In, ,a hon
to his stomach. He retained nearly all
| of this nOuTishment. Meanwhile the
other tube in the larynX is serving its
/ purpose well for the man has been able
to breathe satisfactorily through his
neck. No attempt has been made to
close up the wound nor will there be
any treatment of this character until
the gap begins to close of its own dis
position. If the wound We're sewed up
il would be impossible for Pueo to
breathe as the air would escape between
! the stitches and if ii did not tear them
loose entirely, the food would necessari-
ly force such an outlet there and in adj
dition to causing him unnecessary pain
would deprive him of all nOurishment
Realizing this DR.. Wood has decided to
keep open the only avenue by which the
life of the unfortunate creature can be
sustained.
While very unusual, the case is not
the first which has occurred in the ISL
and. Some years ago the officers went
to Eva to remove a Chinese to the le'
per settlement at Molokai. The mar
ran into an adjoining room and cut his
throat inflicting a wound similar to thai
of Pueo DR.. Wood treated the case
similarly to the present one and after
weeks the patient recovered and was
taken to the settlement where he event
ually died of leprOsy.
DR.. Wood said today that Pueo stood
an excellent chance of recovering. Il
would be several weeks before the
wound was likely to begin to close anC
when 1t shuts as far as nature can go
the physicians will stitch up the gaT
that remains. 1t will be weeks before
Pueo can recover, and If he does his
constitution will be so terribly impaired
that life would scarcely be worth living
even if he did not have the fate of the
gallows hanging over him.