The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-25
DIVES FROM
HIGH ROOF
CraZed Hawaiian
Leaps for His
Freedom.
DESPERATE FIGHT
WITH THE POLICE
Fall Broken by a Wire and he
Escapes With a Broken
Thigh Only.

With a thousand people gathered
about to see his finish. Aka, a native
who was half crazed by domestic and
other troubles, took a dive from the
roof of the old Chinese theater build
ing, in Aala lane yesterday afternoon
and is now lying at the Queens Hos
pital with fracture of the thigh at the
joint. That he lives is nearly mira
Gle for he must have fallen not less
than fifty feet. A wire line and a
friend helped to break his fall. how
ever.
1t was a lively four hours that Aaia
knew half before and the rest after the
noon hour. Not only did Aka give his
aerial exhibition but hack drove In
front of a Rapid Transit car with seri-
Gus results to the vehicle and painful
ones to the driver, who maintains that
he did not hear any bell as he drove
out of the lane into King street. This
started the exhibition. Then after Akas
act, and while Policeman Silva, who
had been on the roof trying TO save the
madman, was putting on his shoes
seated on the veranda of a Chinese
lodging house. he was attacked by Chi
nese, who the police think have read
of Judge Gears remarks about the
rights of Orientals when the police are
a party, and was severely beaten about
the head with clubs. Altogether Aala
had a lively afternoon.
cd To "A p
rel with his wife. The pair live In one
of the tenements adjoining the old
theater, in Aala lane, almost midway
between King street and Beretania
avenue. They had difference Of opin-
ion Saturday according to reports, and
Aka pondered over the matter until his
thoughts and certain features Of his
diet turned his head. He then swore
that he would have revenge and II IL
said went out threatening that he
would kill the woman. The reports OF
impending trouble started, grew ana
finally were taken to the Police Station
in such shape as to involve the killing
of the woman and a baby. So II was
that at 10 O'Clock yesterday morning
police were sent to watch Aka.
He was not TO be caught however ana
going out through skylight or the
tenement ascended to the roof OF the
theater building, passing along tne
caves until he had come to point
remote from the house and at the high
est noint from the rear yard Of the
he marched and for
three hours and a half resisted every
blandishment Of the hundreds who tried
their hand at inducing him to come on
the roof. At length the situation be-
came fntolerable. Police were anxious
that If end and Detective McDuffie de-
termined to try to catch the man. he
secured a rope from Chinese store
nearby and wetting it so that 1t could
he thrown followed Aka to the rooi-
Rut the Hawaiian was not TO be cap
tured. McDuffie tried moral suasion
and this falling endeavOred to get on
the blind side Of Aka TO lasso MIN
But the wild man had no blind slde.
He was ever on the alert and gave no
chances.
Duncan and Manuel Garcia followed
McDufie and finding that every enorl
to attract the attention Of Aka, so az 70
trap him, failed, 1t was decided thaI
the Porto Rican policeman should De
sent after the Hawaiian. a moose was
| made and put about Garcia, and ne was was
lowered from the peak Of the root oown M
to the cave, on which precariouS toOtlhs
: the Hawaiian was resting. AKA saw
him coming and waited with iace
showing the ferocity of his nature. as
soon as Garcia came near enough "
grab the shirt OF Aka, the Ha"aiian'
: permitting himself TO be graspeus - -,
gan 70 belabor Garcia, seeming I,nato, - =
tha+ bis cantor could not let go. Garcia
. sitration was far from pleasant he
: hsd tied the knot in the rope hlmseh,
but had made it a slip moose. THIS was vas
tiebtening about his midst. under IN Ine
,'.eiobf OF himself and the lighting ma