The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-06
JAP ROBBED
AND SHOT ON
MOANALUA ROAD
The Lone Chinese Bicycle Highway.
man Commits Another Daring
Daylight Crime.

lone Chinese highwayman at Pu
keekai hill, Moanalua, repeated yester
day. with deadly effect, the daring day
light robbery and shooting of Japan
csc near the same place on Thursda,
last. The second victim. also a Jap
anese, lies now In hospital of thi
city with two bullet wounds in his alb
domen. Robbery in yesterdays affair
was the motive for the assault, almos
the same tactics of Thursday being fol
lowed.
The Chinese highwayman, who seem.
| to have committed both crimes, did no
escape identification yesterday, and tn,
description now in the hands of the
police. 1t is believed, will result in the
footpad landing behind the bars.
HOW THE NEWS CAME.
About a quarter to three yesterday a
| telephone message from Honolulu plan
tation announced that another murder
had been attempted on the road be-
| tween S. NJ. Damon's ranch and water
tank and the Honolulu plantation, the
exact location being at Pukeekai hill
The victim was at the plantation hos
pital and DR.. charles b. Cooper had
been summoned to attend him. The
message was to the effect that the Japs
assailant was a Chinese, presumably
the same who had shot and robbed
Fujikawa the day before, for he had a
bicycle. 1t was stated also that the
robber after shooting down his victim,
who was unarmed, had robbed him of
$62. so, all that he had on his person.
Upon receipt of the information at
the police station about 1915, officers
Renear and McDuffie left the station
for Pukeekai on bicycles. and they We're
followed later by Deputy Sheriff Chill
lingworth and an Advertiser man in n
buggy The two officers arrived at the
hill in fifteen minutes. They met no
Chinese bicyclist on the road, but found
n clew when they came across Charles
Cash, foreman of the Mutual Telephone
company, and gang of linemen, who
are erecting new telephone poles and
stringing wires in the Moanalua dis
trict. CaSh said that about three
o'clock he and the workmen had seen n
Chinese on bicycle pedaling at a rap
id pace in the direction of the city.
One of the workmen had taken es-
pecial note of the man and described
him as follows:
Tall Chinaman, about Renear's
height; face splotched with white
marks from n skin disease: wore n
dark coat. light trousers, canvas shoes
with rubber soles; rode a low-frame
bicycle with brown rims and open-out
handle bars.
OFFICERS FOLLOW TRACKS.
The two officers went on to the hill
where the assault took place, and then
observed bicycle tracks leading off on
a small road from the main road, to-
ward the top of the hill The tracks
were lost here, but it Is believed by the
officers that the Chinaman chose this
vantage ground for the reason that 1t
commanded a view of the main road
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, We're 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-
DEE and several officers of the plantation
district We're met, all mounted At the
Honolulu plantation hospital the Depu-