The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-16
FATHER STRANGLES BABY
DESPERATE JAPANESE CHOKEs
HIS CHILD.
Unable to Work Kasaburo Plans to
Kill Himself and Family-Wife is
Left Destitute.

Crazed, as 1t would seem, by brooding
over his inability to work and support
his wife and three children. Funaki Ka-
sabaro, a japanese living on upper Lii
liha street, formed the plan of killing
his children and then himself. Satur-
day he started to execute his plan.
About 10 o'clock Saturday morning he
took the youngest child, little girl of
two years and two months, and started
for the mountains above where he lived.
He called to the other two children to
follow him. but for some reason
they did not. He seems to have re-
manned up in the mountains all day
unable to brine himself to commit the
crime he had planned, for a Japanese
has been found who saw the father and
child up there. At that time the father
seemed to be caring for the child in a
fatherly way, feeding it ~uaVas.
The first that was known of the muir
der was when the father appeared at
the police station about IL o'clock Sat
urday night and laid a bundle on the
clerks desk and stood as if waiting to
be questioned.
To the clerks inquiry he replied that
the bundle contained his child and
that he wanted to be arrested.
Deputy High Sheriff Chillingworth
and Chester Doyle were at once sent
for. Through Doyle as interpreter Ka-
sabaro told the story of how his right
arm was paralyzed so that he could not
work to support his family and, that
they should not suffer he had deter
mined to kill his three children and
then himself. After he had killed his
child, which he said he did about s
o'clock in the afternoon he was afraid
to go back to his home for the other
two children to carry out his purpose
hnn 1,n II Iof n
to his wife when she should ask him
where the youngest child was. Brood
ing over his situation with the body of
the child which he had strangled with a
| piece of Japanese kimona sash, fear
| ing to go to his wife, fearing to kill
himself by hanging as he had intended,
he finally decided to give himself up to
the police. He took an old blanket
from a tent he found not far from the
scene of his crime, and wrapping the
body in it took it to the police station.
All of the time that he was telling his
story he seemed as one dazed, weigh
ed down by the enormity of what he
had done, unable to fully realize it, yet
wildly conscious of the separate incl
dents of it.
! He chose the youngest child to kill
first, he said because it was the one
most in the way of the mother upon
whom had devoved the support of the
family. Yet he said she had never
complained either of the child being in
the way or of the burden of supporting
the children.
From the mans disconnected story
1t appears that after stran~'ing the
child he did seek to kill himself by
hanging supposedly from a tree.
He recovered consciousness to And
himself on the ground with the rope
broken by his weight. From that time
until he reached the police station ne
seems to have been, laboring under the
delusion that the child was still alive
The Japanese Benevolent Society
have taken the matter in hand and
will see that the family, consisting OF
the wife, "a girl of 10 and boy of 6 are
provided with food and shelter. The
lunfortunates had only fifty cents Wher
aided by the society, Anyone wishing
to contribute towards their support s
requested to communicate with X. D
lminishi, the president of the japanese
Benevolent Association.
After securing the mans statement
Deputy ChillingwOrth went out to tht
nome and found the mother. She knew
nothing of the death of the child
though she was very much worried a
both it's absence and the fathers. Sh'
corroborated the fathers statement a!
10 the time he left the home and of hi!
calling to the other children to follow
him, and their unwillingness to do so
A post mortem and an inquest was
lheld on the body of the child yester-
day. The jury returned q verdict OF
death from strangulAtion at the hand:
of the father. The child's name wal
KIM. 1t was buried at Makiki GENE
itery yesterday.
The family is destitute and five of thu
Jurors turned over their fees to tn,
imcther. Deputy Sheriff ChillinEwortl
also made up a purse for her, and j
Alfred Magoon who heard of the desti
tute condition of the family paid a PAM
of the funeral expenses.
Rev. Il. Okumura- pastor of the Jap
anesa congregational church has inter
ested himself in the matter and ehil-
ldren and will try and see that they arr
provided for.
hasODara will probably not be
brought before the district court, as tn,
grand jury is in session his week ant
the case will be taken directly to it
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