The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-10-30
ARSON AND MURDER
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of the HILL where the horses had per-
| force been refined in with their heavy
! load, and stand by to render assistance
| to neighboring dwellings if necessary.
| 1t would have been possible to have
pulled the four ton engine up the hill al
though it would have been at a
| crawling pace. The house was DOOM
| ed however before the tiremen arrived,
At the burning house all was Confu-
sion Mr. Friel was quickly out of the
house and, attaching the lawn house,
attempted to eXtinguish the blaze in the
| Kitchen. The hose soon burned and
! split. Mr.. and Mrs. Watson were the
first out and with the assistance of
patrolman Mccormick rescued most of
| their possessions Tobriner saved two
suits of clothes and tried unsuccessfuly
to rescue some Gagged birds. 1t is stated
positively by the survivors that Mrs.
Friel with her daughters, safely reach
ed the ground floor and could have
saved their lives had they not insisted
on going back to their apartments
which were all located on the second
floor. Mr.. Friel slept in separate
room from Mrs Friel, the two girls,
Eta and Georgia, sleeping with Mrs
Friel and Mrs. Jackson respectively. 1t
is believed that the two younger girls
instinctively stayed with their mother
in their fright.
Mrs Friel possessed some valuable
jewelry and seeing that others were
saving their valuabes, went upstairs TO
rescue hers, as did Mrs. Nigel Jackson
The only staircase was at the rear of
the house in close proximity to the
hottest part of the fire. This was
speedily devoured by the flames cutting
| off the best avenue of escape for the
women who were accompanied by the
two girls. Mrs. Friel and her two
daughters rushed to the mauka window
A,
forms outlined against the flames that
already threatened the room. Little
Georgia jumped down and the police
man caught her although she slipped
through his arms to the ground injurng
her knee Mrs. Friel and Eta Shrek
ed as they felt the floor of the room
trembling beneath them and shrank
- from the jump. 1t is presumed that
they turned back for the door and
finding passage barred turned TO the
window once more only to fall sense
less, suffOcated and it is hoped render
ed unconscious by the smoke.
They never left the room and two
hours later, their charred bodies We're
found resting on the burnt beams of
the ground floor, having fallen through
the ceiling and floor of the upper
chamber as the fire deVOured it. Mrs
Jackson leaped from her window badly
burned, and with lungs and throat
scOrChed from inhaled smoke and flame.
= She was carried to the residence of O..
l.. Sosenson and attended by DR.. j. $.
B. Pratt On examination her leg was
a found to be broken from the leap. She
!, died four hours later at 5:45 this morn
: ing.
Mr. Friel on learning that his wife
I, and child We're still in the burning
- building became distraught with grief
: and threw himself on the ground in an
! pf grief The hose nlgv-
: ing freely over the house and fire lines
had been established by the police,
O keeping back the crowd Those saved
- from the flames repaired to the Soren-
, son house where the doctor worked
- graVely over Mrs. Jackson and others
:. endeaVOred to comfort the bereaved
husband and father and attended TO the
frightened and injured Georgia. Rela-
tives arrived as the morning wore on
and took them away.
n The dry, frame building, now a Gre
l. matory for the dead burned crisply in
e the still morning air NeighbOrs were
. at work on their roofs putting out fly
J. ing sparks that shot cracking into
g the air and fell as far as the Hebron
: residence at the foot of the hill. The
y fire burned until the house was a mere
Is shell with the uprights of the front
II and the gable of the makai side alone
x remaining, a blackened skeleton.
% day was beginning to take the place OF
j. the blaze that had lighted the workers
De through the night, the gushing water
cooled the ruins sufficiently for a search
to be made in the CHASTITY funeral pile
for tho bodies The police and fire de-
partment worked together. They haC
not far to search. Lying across the
n beams of the ground floor as on 1
Il hideOus gTidiron, were stretched the re,
mains of the mother and daughter a!
they had fallen through from the flool
ID above. The fire had scorched then
and Charred them beyond recognition
r. The remains were rolled in sheets anC
taken to the undertakes. The crazeC
husband and father was not present.
Mr. Frel told the bystanders how HI
had found burned rags in a closet OF
Tuesday last and stated that threats
had long been made to burn the house
and all that were in il. This was M
news to many who had heard the hus
band of Mrs. Jackson declare his inten
ton to variously kill her, himself anC
the household who, he alleged, haC
III caused trouble between him and hi
wife. The police department was on hi
trail as soon as the location of the fire
was learned. Deputy Sheriff Chilling
worth, leaving the patrolling of the fire
to his men started after Jackson.
He learned from the cook of a restau
rant across from the Brunswick build
ing that Nigel had gone in there to hi!
room about 1880. A search revealed
only some clothes. Knowing tina
Oscar Kreuter, clerk for David Law
renee was quite intimate with jackson
Chillingworth went out to the house o.
Charles Kreuter solo cornetist in tn,
government band hoping to pick up tn,
trail from there. Oscar was found to b,
living somewhere on Kuakini street a
the rear of the Friel house and tina
clue seemed hopeful
Arriving at Oscars after awakening
several househOldeTs in his search Chill
lingworth interrogated him as to Jack
sons whereabouts. Kreuter denied
knowledge to these but did not be-
lieve him in the house The sheriff de-
termined to search the premises for his
= own satisfaction however and Osca
accompanied him. At the door Of ont