The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-17
.KASABARA
IN INTERVIEWED
Thought His Dead
Child Spoke to
Him.
BUT FOR THIS
WOULD BE DEAD
Killed KIM on Friday-Wants to
be Hanged and Not
jailed.

/ Funaki Kasabara, the Japanese who
murdered his two-year-old daughter
last week, was interviewed in Oahu
Jail by reporter yesterday
| He said that he did not intend to kill
his three children, as has been stated
His idea was to kill the youngest one
and then himself. He thought that by
doing this he would make it easier, for
his wife and other two children to
live. He hurt his right arm, he said,
last December, and paralysis resulted
He could do no work. and lived for a
time on little money which he had
put by. When this was gone he sold
| his household goods in order to pro-
vide his family with food
II killed Kimi on Friday afternoon.
about o'clock said Funaki Then +
tried to kill myself. 1 put a rope
around my neck and tied it to the
branch of tree, then 1 fell on my
knees. The rope must have broken
| when 1 was unconscious, for 1 don't
remember it. All 1 remember is awak-
ing and finding myself lying on the
ground just as the sun was getting up
on Saturday morning.
When I saw my child dead 1 tried
to hang myself again. Just as 1 was
fixing the rope around my neck 1
thought heard KIM say to me, papa.
wait. This scared me, and I waited
while.
Presently l tried to kill myself for
third time, but just as 1 fell on my
knees, bab.5 tried to take hold of nv
leg.
When l saw this 1 knew that God
did not want me to slay myself 1t
was as if God had told me that I must
suffer for my very great crime That
is why he made the baby take hold Of
my legs. l then knew that the law
must take it's course, and that I must
pay for what l had done. I therefore
determined to go to the police station
and tell everything that 1 had done.
Il hunted around and found an old
tent which had a blanket in it. /
borrowed the blanket and put the body
in it. Then / started for town. 1t
was about o'clock in the morning
when 1 set out, and 1t was IL o'clock
at night when I got to the police sta
ton. / must have been dazed, and
wandered round end round, for T>don't
know what did all that time. 1 don't
even remember what I told them at
the police station.
Il have done wrong and am not
afraid of dying for my bad deed. I.
want to be hanged, and dread going to
jail 1 shall welcome death and If my
friends are friends they will not try
to save me from the scaffold"
Funaki, on being asked if he cared
to see his wife and children, said that
he had no courage to meet them, and
was ashamed.
The murderer is about fifty years of
age. Those who know him say that
he has aged ten years in the last year
He was one of the first Japanese to
come to Hawaii, and has been here
maker by trade, and worked for long
time on Spreckelsville plantation
His wife has recently earned a little
by doing washing. Her two remaining
children are a girl of ten, and a boy
of six. The family was destitute until
aided by the Japanese Benevolent AS
ISOLATION.
Both the Japanese consul and the
Japanese Benevolent Association are
looking after the children, and to them
gifts of food or money may be for
warded. K. J. Imanishi is the presi-
dent of the association.
The Japanese community is raising
a fund to provide Funaki with efficient
counsel. They will not seek to shield
him in any way, but will work to have
all the circumstances of the case
brought to light in the hope of obtain
ing for Funaki the lightest possible
sentence