Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-14
A SUICIDE IN |WAH.
JAPANESE WOMAN TIRES
Of A SHAMEFUL LIFE
Uses Revolver and CarbOliC Acid 10
Accomplish Her End--HuSband
Forced Wife to Become
PrOStitut,.

While crowds of soldiers surged up
and down the streets OF Iwilei last
night and sounds of fighting and revel-
ny could be heard from one end of the
place to the other. there was silence
and fear in a little room above the
street by the rice mill. Here a small
crowd of japanese men and women
were gathered around the body of Ito
Kiko. japanese woman VINO, during
the afternoon, had ended her life of
misery and shame by sending a bullet
into her breast.
While the suicide was probably COM
mitted in the afternoon. the police did
not hear of 1t until about two hours
later. when japanese doctor telephon-
ed to Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth
that he had been called to lwilei to at
tend to suicide.
The deputy Immediately FASTENED to
the place where he arrived a little af-
ter $50 p. m. In the room where the
deed had been committed he found the
dead wOman's body. Her husband and
his friends had removed her from the
| floor where she was found and laid her
on the bed. The body was perfectly
cold and rigor mortis had already Set
in. From her right breast little
blood was oozing out of bullet hole
and around her mouth were plain
stains of CarbOlic acid which she had
taken. On the floor lay the revolver
with which the deed had been commits
ted. II had cartridges in all Eve cham
bers, only one Of them being discharg'
ed. Near the revolver was lying small
bottle which had contained Carbolic
acid. II was almost empty.
The deputy sheriff Immediately pro-
Ceoded to give the dead wOmans hus-
band a thorough examination, a mount
ed patrolman who speaks Japanese
nuCntly acting as interpreter. Later on
Chester Doyle arrived and in his turf
examined the man.
From the testimony of this man
whose name is Ito Kichiro, II appears
that he and the deceased were married
in Japan. She was twenty-five years
old at the time of her death. KichirC
had left the house yesterday afternoon
at o'clock and had returned about
two hours later. He found the door
locked but thinking that the woman
had gone to visit friends, he did not at
tempt to enter but again left the promi'
ses, returning at about 6 p. m.
On his return, the door was still
locked, there being "A paddock as wei
as the door lock. Kichiro unscreweC
the hasp of the paddock and opened thu
door lock with a key which he had
On entering the room, he found IT.
KikO lying face downwards on blan
ket in the middle of the floor. The re
volver and the carboliC acid bottle wer,
were already quite cold but as he
body was still warm. the doctor wa
sent for.
/ The woman must have been very de
} termined as she had tried to end he
life both by bullet and by acid. OF tn
q acid she took so much, however, that
r reaction was produced and she vomite
: II all out Hence the acid stains o.
: her face around the mouth.
= Kichiro stated that he and the VIC
q man had never had any trouble. Upo
: close questioning 1t developed, how
K ever, that he had made her occupy on
u OF the dens in the stockade and tha
u after the closing of that place he sti
d compelled her to ply the shamefl
,. trade.
: The woman was Ill as a result an
II had been under medical treatment eve
since May 2. This illness in connec
/, ton with the fact that in spite OF II sl
was still forced to lead life of sham
. probably furnished the reasons whiC
\ made the unfortunate woman take h,
4 own life.
4 Coroner's jury was empaneled la
a night and viewed the remains on Il
4 spot. The inquest was set for the noe
hour today.