The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-31
KILLED IN
The NIGHT.
japanese Boy Is
Shot by an
Unknown.
POLICE HAVE A
GOOD CLUE
Mother Did Not Know of Tragedy
and Slept by the Dead
Chiid's Side.

Sleeping complacently beside her
nine-year-old boy, believing that he
was slumbering, Japanese mother
yesterday morning at daylight arose to
discover that the little fellow had been
murdered. Iso, the son of japanese
residents of Iwilei, was shot by cow
ardly intruder into the little room of
the japanese family, and no one yet
knows his identity.
A coroner's jury held an inquest over
the body yesterday afternoon in the
High Sheriff's office. Jurors Chas.
Richardson, Richard 1vers, Walter
Doyle, c. B. Gray, K. r. G. Wallace
and Frank Lucas, hearing the testi-
mony.
When the fire whistle sounded shortly
after O'clock yesterday morning, Ia
kano heard it and left the bed in which
himself, wife and little boy were sleep
ing, unlocked the door, leaving it ajar
and went to the F'riel residence fire,
not returning until about o'clock
when he first heard the news of the
death of his boy. About SIS the wife.
was awakened by some enc entering
the room and looked up through the
mosquito netting, and saw the form of
man. In the dim light afforded by
street light she saw something shining
in his hand. She made an outcry and
at the same instant heard the discharge
Of a revolver and saw the flash. She
Immediately cried out and the man dis
appeared quickly from the place. Jap
anese neighbors hurried to the scene
but no one saw the disappearing form.
One or two Japanese came in and as
nothing unusual except the firing of
the revolver had apparently taken
place, all returned to their abodes.
The mother saw her boy evidently
still slumbering and apparently not
having been awakened by the report
of the pistol She crawled under the
mosquito netting and went to sleep.
When daylight came she saw the boy
was still asleep and tried to awaken
him. She noticed then that his body
was stiff and for the first time saw
blood on the pillow. Investigation
showed that a bullet had entered his
neck at the base of the skull and that.
he must have been killed instantly.
DR.. Mcdonald made a pcstmortem
examination at the morgue and extract
ed 38-calibre ball from near the
frontal bone. No clew was developed
as to the murderer, except that the
mother said the form looked like that
of a native. The jury returned YER
dict of death by a bullet fired from
revolver discharged by an unknown
person.
Late last evening Chester Doyle Sc
cured information that a native armed
with revolver visited three Japanese
boarding houses on Wednesday night
and attempted to hold up the proprie-
tors and guests. In each case the in
truder was chased off the premises and
did not make use of the gun. The ma
tive is the same who visited each place
and description from each house Civ
en- to Doyle fits Hawaiian who is we'll
known to David KAPPA and Garcia, the
detectives, and both were at once sent
out to scour the city for him.
Chester Doyle believes that this ma
tive is the one who visited the Jap
anese house in Twilei and shot the boy
Iso in the back of the neck killing him
instantly. The size of the gun as de-
scribed by the japanese about fits So
calibre.
The police expect to have the man in
custody by this forenoon