The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-04
LOVE Was
TOO GREAT
So Writes KeaIoha,
Murderer and
Suicide.

own life Kealoha, the murderer of Maria
High Sheriff Brown, Deputy Sheriff An
drew Cox, and ito the whole world.
/ In the letter Kealoha sets forth the
reasons for his mad acts and concluded
/ with a warning TO womankind in general
against trifiing and Inconsistency.
| He said that he killed the woman and
himself because of the great and passion
ate love for her. According to the
better. he and the dead woman became
engaged to be married on May 25th At
| ter then, on three different occasions,
his sweetheart asked him to take her to
Honolulu in order that the ceremony
might be performed. and backed out at
1.-The last moment, after all preparations
had been made.
| Kealoha writes that Maria and her
friends were constantly resorting to Ka-
hunaism to make his love for her grow
stronger To quote from the letter:
| Things that were done there at that
| time We're afterwards told to me by the
one I loved and sshe said the result of
| the Kahunaism was that the gods told
| her that it would not be good for her to
| be married to me"
| After the third refusal TO marry him,
| Kealoha writes:
Il left Honolulu without seeing the one
| | loved but at Waianae she came into
the car where l was sitting and began
| talking to me, but l did not answer her.
| At Kaena, where my place is and where
| I followed my trade of fishing I left
| the train and got out My loved one
went back to Waialua 1 lived alone at
this place, keeping all my sorrows to
myself. although whether / slept or was
awake in the night or in the day. and
| in the rain and in the wind, or when the
sun was shining, l was always thinking
| of her and she was before me. / loved
her more than any man ever loved any
woman, but this woman after I had I'M
derstood many girls, this one humbug
ged me all the time in every way"
| Later on Kealoha and Maria again
patched up their differences and every
| thing went smoothly with them until the
| last of July, when the woman went to
| Honolulu. OF what took place between
them on her return Kealoha says:
| When she came back she acted queer
and disgraced me, and I was of course
somewhat angry. She did not stay with
me, and she acted so queer that
couldn't understand her, and I was very
much downhearted and hurt About this
| time l began to think Of doing what now
| you know / have done. AS / had salts
| fed myself that She was only getting me
| to love her and then throw me off and
getting me to love her again and throw
ing me off, I felt very bad. 1t isn't right
1t is something like a fish biting at a
bait and then letting go, and then biting
| again and letting go, and so on
| The letter concludes with the following
warning:
| so after having read this, my state
ment regarding my case, warn all wom-
en- of all kinds white or black, that you
now see the result of what will happen
to you when you trifle with the love of a
man. You may think it is smart and
that it is fun, but ii is very wrong, as
you see the result. ! have had to do
something that is not good. 1t must be
taken into consideration that the one I
loved was not stupid, and that she was
well educated and had lived with intelli-
gent people, and has been married to in
telligent husbands who are now dead.
And this is all due to Kahunaism, and I
ask the Catholic church to try to prevent
people from resorting to Kahunaism The
woman I loved claimed to be Catholic,
but she did not live up to the rules, for
she mixed up with Kahunaism and has
caused me to commit a black deed
| Although some may say l am foolish
% do this and that l could get other
Isweethearts as I am young man. but
FthiS is not so for me; / am of a very de-
termined nature, and when L love once
| love always. l am 26 years old and the
woman / love is 40 years of age, but her
actions and manners are those of child.
/ never heard of a woman of her age
doing what she had done and she has
paid the penalty for she will be dead
/ when the black deed is done 1t is best
for woman once loving a man to love
him always, and to live with him in hap
Ipiness So that she will then be an orna-
ment to the home, like a hat that IS fit
| for the king to wear.
With these few words to you women
i of all kinds, and my love to you all, I
tcease writing, and I want you to all
mourn for me, from Eva all over the
country I have died owing to the one
| / love.
Executed the 29th day of August 1901
with my seal
"KEALoHAPAUOLE MAKAHL"
| postscript to the letter, addressed to
the legislature, asking the members to
see to IT that women be not allowed to
trifie in matters of love, reads:
/ 1T is not good that women should do
this, for it results in black deeds and is
a very wrong thing, / ask the legislature
/ to prevent women from fooling with the
love that is in mems hearts and from
/ making men love them Just to throw
away the love and bring men to commit
black deeds as 1 have done"