The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-17
KILLED IN
KAKAAkO
Bloody Staying in
a Lodging
House.
MURDERER Is
SILL AT LARGE
Kentucky Bill" Avenges Foul
Epi,het With a Deadly
Knife Thrust.
BOUT . o'clock last night 4 re-

q oOOI CLOCK laSt night q re-
~ port was brought to the police
- station by an officer that q man
had been fatally stabbed in house be-
hind the brewery on Queen street Dep
uty Sheriff Chillingworth Immediately
went to the place and found that mnr-
i der had indeed been done.
| On the lanai of a lodging house, sit
uated at the end of the alley which
+, bounds the brewery on the waikiki
! side, lay the dead body of man, well
tering in pool of blood. Gathered
round were a crowd OF morbidly euri-
Gus ones.
The Deputy Sheriff's enquiries as to
who had done the deed drew forth from
Meyers, the landlord OF the house, the
following story:
About S:45 deceased and another
man, both of whom had been drinking.
were arguing somewhat noisily on the
lanai of the house. Presently man
known as Kentucky Bill" emerged
from the house and told the men to
shut up. The dead man thereupon ap-
piled foul epithet to Bill. who whip
ped out a big knife and stabbed the
other under the heart, killing him al
most instantly. Kentucky BilT' then
entered the house, and shortly after
wards escaped down the lane leading
to Queen street.
AS soon as Meyers had told his story,
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth entered
the room Bill generally occupied and
found a blood stained knife stuck into
a rafter. The weapon had blade
about four and a half inches long with
a razor ad9a which was relea Se6 from
a buckhorn handle BY pressing a spring.
The name of the murdered man could
not be aseertained, though he is said
so have lived at Meyers house for a
long time He Is said to have worked
around horses and to have been en-
ployed in some stable in town up to
yesterday. Residents In Meyervflle
simply called him kid" He was about
q years of age.
Kentucky Biz Is well known in Ka-
kaako. He is over six feet tall, with
dropping shoulders and a red mus
tache and used to exc out living by
chairs. He was fond OF posing
as a bad man and there Is not a bar
keeper on Queen street whom he has
not regaled with tales of blood from
old Kentucky. never forgetting to en-
phasize his narrative by remarking
that he was every bit as handy Effh !
his knife as with his gun. ~
The locality where the murder was
is an unsavory one and the
houses at the end of Brewery lane are
the abiding place OF some of Eonolulu's
hardest characters Whenever the
police want a man they never overlook
Brewery lane and a casting Of nets OF
the law in that direction always results
n a rich haul of rascality. OF late the
haS nj
ant notoriety as did Iwilei. and sailors
% this port are well apprised OF the ex-
ict bearings OF Brewery lane long be-
ore Honolulu is sighted
AS soon as Deputy Sheriff Chilling
worth had made thorough search of
he premises and satisfied himself that
he murderer was not hidden there, a
ury was empaneled and the body
-iewed as it lay. Then the deputy sher-
# returned to the police station and
he hue and cry was raised.
1t was given out by Chillirgworth
hat a reward Of 500 would be paid for
he apprehension of the murderer and
hen every available officer was turned
ut on the case. All over town men
-ere stationed and the Sonoma was
arefully watched all night. as were all
essels scheduled to sail today.
Up to an early hour this morning
Kentucky Bill'' was still at large, not
the indefatlgable efforts
{ the police, who worked hard all
light long to discover where he was
Id.
The murderer is q white man OF
bout 35 years OF age. He Is tall, above
le average and slenderly built when
st seen he wore gray pants. q check
est. white shirt and a round black
at or skull cap.
About II O'Clock last night q man
amed Dan Smith told the police that
: arrived on the scene directly after
le murdered man had been stabbed
ID that he held him in his arms until
: died, trying TO relieve what he
fought was hemorrhage, by sucking
e blood from his throat. Smiths
othes were covered with blood. Hs
as locked up last night pending
orough investigation of his story