The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-03
The Lone Chinese Bicycle Highway
man Commits Another Daring
Daylight Crime.
lie Watches for Victims on WeII-TraveIed
Thoroughfare and Attacks Plantation
Laborer, Shooting Him Twice.

vantage ground for the reason that il
on either side, and all persons on the
road could be sized UP. Upon the in
| formation given by Cash the two Off
GERS started toward town, and meeting
the Deputy Sheriff, were directed to
take the Chinese police officers and
scour all the Chinese sections of the
city for the man described.
The Deputy Sheriff met Cash and the
| linemen and offered $50 to the man
who could locate the fugitive.
At Pukeekai Deputy Sheriff Fernan-
dez and several officers of the plantation
district were met, all mounted. AT the
Honolulu plantation hospital the Depu-
! ty learned that the wounded japanese,
Oda by name, had been sent to the city
on the late afternoon train by DR..
Cooper owing to the serious nature of
the wounds.
| MANAGER LOWS STORY.
| Manager Low of the Honolulu Plan
'tation stated that the first thing known
of the assault was when Mr.. Thompson
en- route to his home in Wahiawa came
across Oda lying in the road, bleeding.
The Jap was lifted into the wagon and
conveyed to the plantation hospital.
Oda, who was working a contract at
the plantation, had wound up his af-
fairs there yesterday morning, and
Manager Low had squared his account,
giving him about $50 in settlement.
Oda, who intended leaving soon for
Japan, started for town. In the after
noon Oda started back for the planta-
| ton. At Pukeekai hill he saw a China
man. A bicycle leaned against the
! fence. He passed by the Chinaman,
and the latter followed. Suddenly the
! Chinaman thrust a revolver in Oda's
! face and asked for a dollar. Oda in.
stinctively, and in self-defense, graspe6
| the Chinaman's hand and the gun, anC
attempted to wrest the weapon from
! him. Then came a fierce struggle fol
| it's possession. The gun was drawn
downward steadily and Oda began tc
| feel that he would win, when the China
man crooked his finger on the trigger
and fired as the muzzle pointed at the
/ Jap's abdomen. AS the blood gusheC
out of the wound, Oda's grasp was
| loosened. and he fell, the Chinaman fir.
| ing again as he did so, the second bal
! taking effect two inches above the first
| Inc Cnlndlndn Inen TODDeQ the nelplGSs
victim. Mr.. Thompson met China
man on bicycle and about five min
utes later came across the wounded
| Japanese.
| Joe, a Portuguese working in the
plantation store. walked from Moana-
! lua to the plantation and remembered
passing Oda, and few minutes later
passed the Chinaman, whose bicycle
was leaning against the road fence. Il
must have been less than five minutes
afterward that the assault took place
although Joe did not hear shots.
The japanese who was robbed and
shot on Thursday is doing we'll at the
plantation hospital, and is able to walk
! about, the bullet only having pierced
! the fleshy part of the left thigh.
A DANGEROUS FEELING.
| Since the strike of the 500 japanese
working on shares, a number of Chi
nese have been employed to carry on
the work The Japs think the footpad
is one of them. They say that the
Chinese, wishing to frighten the Japs,
off the plantation, have had recourse
to the robbery and revolver methods.
If such a belief became fixed, it is be-
lieved that this would sooner or later
result in a race war. The police and
Manager Low are both of the opinion
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