The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-30
The Assassin Turns and
Takes His Own
Life.
One Man Drunk and the Other
Had Been Drinking
Heavily.


Kaapuni. one Of the TRUSTEES in the
city prison. early yesterday morning
shot and probably killed another pris-
oner confined there. and then turned
the revolver against himself. put bull
let through his own breast and died
within a few minutes.
It was in the gray Of the morning,
before the honest people of the city had
even begun to think of rising to the
duties of the Sabbath day. The men
were both in jail for murder. and there
had been some Hl-feeling between them
in past times because one of them was
the accepted lover of a certain japanese
woman. and the other one wanted to
be- But they said. the other prisoners.
that this dinculfy had been smoothed
over between the men before the TRACE
'dy- Il is easy for men to smooth over
a quarrel about women-and easy. also.
Tor bitterness following their quarrel 10
shoulder to the point of murder.
At all events Kaapuni, serving term
OF twenty years for murder in the sec
ond degree. shot Nahale-a in the city
prison at just 5:45 yesterday morning,
and then turned the revolver against
his own breast and fired a shot that
tore away the big arteries about his
own heart, causing wound from which
he bled to death almost as soon as he
had fallen to the floor of the prison.
Nahale-a, at whom shot had been fir
ed at a range of not more than one
foot through the iron grating in the
door OF cell ls. lay writhing within /
while his assassin died in the corridor. /
for the bullet from large revolver
had entered his left breast just below /
the heart, and had torn its way down
through his vitals. coming out at the
root OF the spinal column
As quickly as possible DR.. Herbert
was called to the prison. and the
wounded man was hurried away to the
Queens Hospital, where the house sur
eeon dressed his wounds "The man is
perfectly conscious" the doctor said
last night. But it is impossible to tell
whether he win live. He has fright
full wound. and I should say the
chances are about one hundred TO one
sainst him."
BOTH MEN WERE DRUNK
And II was a quarrel over woman.
though probably that was not the i'm ]
mediate pretext for the crime. and both
men we're drunk, though they were
ong-term prisoners in jail. That is ac-
counted for by the other fact that they
we're TRUSTEES. going to places in the
performance of menial tasks about the ,
all which the other prisoners could not
each. and so having access to a room !,
n which was kept some okolehao that r
.ad been used as evidence in case In
ourt and which the officers had as yet r
ae no opportunity TO destroy.
The story of the killing is a simple
tory. vet sordid in the low life Of it. !,
I seems that it is the custom of the h
rison to turn the prisoners out OF the >,
ellis early. and put the TRUSTEES at their =,
rork OF cleaning up the place prepara- n
Dry to the business OF the day jail a
, a place that requires lot of clean
IL. 1t was a part of the duty of the a
ian Kaapuni. murderer and suicide, to +,
ean up the sherin's Office, and the Of "
% Of the Deputy Sheriff, and in the
ursuit OF that duty daily he had access q
, those offices and to the gun room be- :,
ind the Sheriff's office. Also. he knew =.
lat there was jug OF okolehao in the ,s
an room. He had put it there himself =
D saturday, for safe keeping. in pur-