The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-29
AFTER THE
TRAGEDY
Mrs. Parnenter's
Funeral
Held.
PixIey Gets Lower Bail
From the
Court.
Marcus Parmenter Has Sad Home
Comins-Heard the News ats
LNapoopoo and Collapsed.

Parmenter was from the house in XII
nau street to Central Union church,
where services were conducted by Rev.
w. NJ. Kincaid, and thence to Nuu-
anu cemetery. Mr.. Kincaid read the
2Srd Psalm, "The Lord is my
shepherd" and members of the choir
sang appropriate hymns. There was
a large attendance and the contribu-
tons of flowers were in great number
with much variety of symbolic pieces.
the pall-bearers. Among the chief
mourners the younger children of Mr..
and Mrs. Colburn walked in the pro-
cession.
ARRANGEMENT THIS MORNING.
Attorney General Andrews stated
yesterday afternoon that Edward NJ.
Jones would probably be arraigned this
morning in the Honolulu District Court
for the murder of Mrs. Jones and Mrs
Parmenter.
PIxLEYS BOND REDUCED.
Manager C. G. Ballentyne of the
Rapid Transit Co. was allowed to plead
before Judge De Bolt yesterday morn
ley on his own recognizance as wit
ness in the Jones murder case. His
efforts only succeeded to the extent of
having Pixley's bond reduced from
two thousand to one thousand dollars.
Attorney General Andrews and High
Sheriff Brown appeared to oppose the
application.
Mr.. Ballentyne, while admitting the
Importance of serving the ends of JUS
tice, contended that there was no evil
dence of any intention on the part of
Pixley to desert the jurisdiction of the
court. Since the murders he had let
three chances of leaving the Territory
slip. He hal no interest in running
away. there being ample proof that he
was a witness only by accident. 1t
would be a great hardship to keep a
man in confinement and out of his
employment for. probably, three
months.
Mr.. Pixley, on his own \behalf, in
formed the court that he had come
here with other electric car men from
San Francisco and had no intention
af tell
Mr.. Andrews disclaimed knowledge
of any intention of Pixley to leave
the country, but he was such an i'm
portant witness that it became neces-
red to the trouble given to his depart
ment through its leniency in allowing
three soldiers under Indictment for
burglary to leave the Territory. Pixley
him graphing with Mrs. Parmenter
and heard shots, therefore was an alb
necessary witness in the Par
menter case. The Attorney General
also expressed a hope that the trial
would be held within three weeks in
stead of months.
SAD HOMECOMING
Marcus Parrnenter, son of the muir
dered Mrs. Pelrmenter, did not know
his mother was dead until the steam
er Mauna Loa was approaching her
dock from Hawaii shortly after five
o'clock yesterday morning.
Captain Simerson and officers of the
steamer, in which Parmenter is gaso-
line launch engineer, heard of the
killing of Mrs. Jones and the serious
of her mother at Punaluu on |
Tuesday. the news having been sent |
by wireless telegraph as already re- |
ported in the Advertiser. They thought |
best to keep the tidings from Parment- |
er, but when he went ashore at Napoo- |
poo the awful story was blurted out |
to him by boys at the landing
He collapsed at the revelation, fall |
ing to the ground. The best consola-
ion the officers could give the grief
stricken young man, when he was
brought aboard the steamer after be-
ng helped into the launch was that
lis mother was not dead. While the
'oat was working into her berth here.
oarmenter, who had got ready to go
ashore as speedily as possible, learn
d the worst from some one standing
N the wharf.