The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-23
NEW CLUES
ARE FOUND
Mystery Of the TantaIus
Skeletons.
Police TO INVESTIGATE
Pieces Of Cloth and Gold Buttons
Found That may Lead to
Identification.

Dead men tell no tales, 1t is said, but
they often leave clues behind them
which are gradually unraveled, until
the nature of their deaths can be as
certained. Additional light was shed
yesterday on the manner in which the
two persons. whose skeletons were
found some weeks since on the foot
hills of the Tantalus forest, met their
deaths. A fiattened bullet imbedded In
the soil near the skeletons. mutely told
a story of violent death, but whether
from their own hands, or by the hand
Of an enemy, there seems no sure way
of telling.
While David Dayton Jr., was at the
quarry in the foothills near the place
he learned from one of the prison
lunas that the skeletons had not been
removed. nor had anything been dis
turbed since the first investigation was
made. Mr.. Dayton made his way
through the thick growth of lantana,
and found the skeletons. minus the
skulls.
Il thought they had been taken away
and buried" said Mr.. Dayton last ev-
ening, but there they We're. l inyesti-
gated them carefully. First, picked
UP some of the Jumps which seemed to
have once formed a part of their cloth.
ing. 1 opened one lump carefully and
found it to be, presumably, a piece of
Calico even the print was discernfDla.
A lump of cloth taken from the sides
of the bones of the man showed to me
that he had. worn a brown coat To
my mind the bones are unnistakabiy
those of man and woman, as
stated in the Advertiser. Looking
around for something else, I took a
stick and poked it among the homes
of the breast and found two gold COL
lar buttons. Further down ! found a
Hawaiian quarter
My chief discovery, however. was
that of a bullet, iattened out, and
lying about two feet from the place
where the womans head had been. The
prison luna said it was a 32-calibre.
The humerus was split, showing clearly
that it had been broken by a violent
blow. such as would be produced by
the impact of a bullet When I found
the bullet l looked around for a re-
volver, which, If found, would have
substantiated the theory that the pair
had made off with themselves, and had
come to this secluded spot that they
might die together l found no revolver.
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hampered by the thick growth of Ian
. tana, which did not permit my going
far away from the skeletons
I have come to believe from this
one circumstance, alone, that murder
had been committed by some person
unknown to the community. Had the
two made way with themselves the
weapon which they used would have
been near them. OF course. the Ian
tana there is the result OF about eight
years growth in my estimation No
one could have crawled into the lam
tana had it been as thick as at pres
ent, and so believe they were on the
hills before it became SO thick. 1t
seems to me that these two came 10
their deaths at the hand of a third
party I intend to hand over the arti-
cles which l found, to the police, and
they may possibly hit upon some fur
ther clue which will aid them in unrav-
cling the mystery
Mr. Dayton also found a pair of
mans rubbers, and portions of pair
of shoes which he believes to have
been the woman's Only the leather
parts where the lacings were put
through the eyelets remained He also
found the decayed portins of two
hats. In one of the Jumps of eiecayed
clothing piece of soap was discovered.
An effort will be made today to have
the articles found by Mr. Dayton iden-
titled by Mrs. Kinimaka, VINO believes
the bones to be those of her son VINO
left the kalihi Receiving Station for
lepers one day, and was never seen af-
terwards.