The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-18
CHINESE IS
MURDERED
A Manoa Taro
Planter Beaten
and Stabbed.
MOTIVE MAY HAVE
BEEN ROBBERY
Body Found Yesterday Cloth
Waist Pouch Was
RifIed.

View, near Punahou, in lower Manoa
valley one day this week, the victim
being Chinese taro planter of the val
ley named Young Dang, Al years of
age. The body of the unfortunate man
was found yesterday afternoon in a
clump of lantana bushes by native
boy, who Immediately sent word to the
Police Department. The Health Depart
ment was also notified and the body
taken to the Board of Health morgue
last night about 10 o'clock where a
post-mortem was held.
The murderer or murderers killed the
Chinese in a manner which leaves no
doubt that he was beyond human aid
when they were done with him. From
the appearance of the man the police
are led to believe that a fierce struggle
took place before Young Dang gave up
his life.
The man was stabbed several times
blunt instrument, either a hammer or
rock, was used on his head with
force enough to crush in the skull in
several places, fracture the bones of the
jaw and gouge one of the eyes complete
ly out of the socket. Wounds made by
sharp knife were found on the arms
and in the lower part of the abdomen,
indicating that the murderer or mur-
derers attempted a most fiendish piece
of work, limiting that revenge might be
considered the motive for the crime,
were it not for the fact denim cloth
pouch in which Dang's tax receipts,
certificate of Identification, purse and
other trinkets, which was worn strap
ped about his body, had been rified of
it's contents.
When Secretary Charlock of the
Board visited the scene he found the
dead man lying face downward. His
clothes had been saturated with blood.
His left arm partly rested on large
lava stone covered with blood, which
was probably used to crush ia his skull.
only by summoning up his nerve was
the secretary able to remain near by.
About fifteen feet away from the body
| Charlock came upon the denim pouch.
The tax receipts, purse, small tin box
in which was lone five-cent piece, a
certificate of Identification from United
States Revenue Collector Chamberiln,
issued May Z, 1901, and several letters
land photographs of himself were strewn
all over the ground. AS none of them
had suffered by exposure in the open
air it is believed that the man was
murdered either on Monday. or Tues
! day. No weapons of any kind were
found near the place.
DR.. Shorey of the Health Department
went after the body last night and
brought it to the morgue in an under
takers wagon. The head of the man
was unrecognizable, so badly had 1t
been disfigured. DR.. Mcdonald and DR..
Hodgins examined the body, the former
making the post-mortem. High Sheriff
Brown was present and gave orders
that the post-mortem take place al
once on account of the rapid decompo-
sition.
DR.. McDonalds report of the wounds
found on the body is as follows:
! Body of a well-developed man, live
feet six inches long, considerably de-
composed Great Disagreement of the
head. Transverse fracture of the front
al bone, one inch above super orbita
ridge. Right eye entirely gone. Frac-
ture of the righ malar; lacerated woune
of the right portion of the frontal bone
| confused wound one inch above nose
fracture of lower maxillary on the left
side; fracture of the right side of heac
under the ear; confused wounds OF
arms and chest. Terrible wound OF
left shoulder; on the left wrist about al
inch above the hand is a stab wound
right through the arm, made by
sharp blade. Scratch across abdomen
where the pouch was cut away; strucl
repeatedly in the eye as with ham
mer, rock or blunt instrument; stal
wounds above pelvic, formation.
The High Sheriff will call coroner
4 jury this morning to probe into tn
!. case. There is no clue so far as to th
murderer or murderers. The Chimes
living near the place where the bod.
was found denied to the Board o
Health officers that they knew th
man or any man by his name. His Ger
! tifcate of Identification gave his resi-