The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-09-06
LOVE WAS
TOO GREAT
So Writes Kea!Oha,
Murderer and
Suicide.

Befor. firing the shot which ended his
own life, Kealoha, the murderer of Maria
Kalamazoo, wrote a lengthy epistle to
High Sheriff Brown, Deputy Sheriff An
drew Cox and Ito the whole world.
In the letter Eealoha sets forth the
reasons for his mad acts and concluded
with a warning to womankind in general
against trifling and Inconsistency.
He said that ne killed the woman and
himself because of the great and passion
ate love for her. According to the
letter. 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
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 were afterwards told to me by the
one / loved, and she said the result OF
the Kahunaism was that the gods told
her that IL would not be good for her to
he 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 was sitting and began
talking to me, but 1 did not answer her.
At Kaena, where my place is and where
I followed my trade of fishing, | left
the train and got out. My loved one
went back to Waialua. I lived alone at
this place, keeping all my sorrows to
myself, although whether I 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. was always thinking
of her and she was before me. i 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. or 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 I
couldn't understand her. and I was very
much dOwnhearted and hurt. About this
time began to think of doing what now
YOU know I have done. AS 1 had salts
fled myself that she was only getting me
to love her and then throw me OF and
getting 10 love neT again anu throw
ing me of. I felt very bad It isn't right.
It 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:
80 after having read this, my state
ment regarding my case. l warn all wom-
en- of all kinds, white or black. that you
now see the result Of what will happen
to you when you trifie with the love of a
man. You may think it is smart and
that it Is fun, but IL is very wrong. as
you see the result. have had to do
something that Is not good. It 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
ask the Catholic church to try to prevent
people from resorting to kahunaism. The
woman loved claimed to be a 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
to do this and that I could get other
sweethearts. as I am a young man, but
this is not so for me: am of a very de-
termined nature. and when I love once
I love always. am 26 years old and the
woman i love is 10 years of age. but her
actions and manners are those OF a child.
I never heard of 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 a woman once loving a man to love
him always. and to live with him In hap
piness SO that she will then be an orna-
ment to the home, like a hat that is At
for the king to wear.
with these few words to you women
of all kinds, and my love to you all,
cease writing, and / 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
very wrong thing. l ask the legislature
10 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 i have done"
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