The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-16

come .coatIess to waianae and left the
dead body of his employee lying in the
sun in front of his own cottage at Ma
kua. Carney permitted Murphy 10 go
his way.
Carney went to Makua. and after
| making Investigations and ordering the
body removed to Kaleo's cottage re-
turned TO waianae and arrested Muir
ply. He locked the latter up. and tele-
phoaed to Deputy Sheriff Fernandez OF
Pearl City that there had been muir
der. At the same time messages were
sent to Senator McCandless, owner of
the ranch, that Joe had been killed
by mule and securing a coffin. Sena-
tor McCandless left Honolulu on the
three O'Clock train for Makua- At Pearl
City he was joined by Fernandez and
at waianae by Carney. Then. at Ma
kua these three made a thorough ex-
animation.
THE MYSTERY OF THE GUN.
In Murphy's cottage a forty-five cali
bre gun was found This contained one
loaded cartridge in the breech, and
nine in the magazine-all the ammuni-
ton that the gun would hold at one
time. They searched high and low but
found no trace of an empty cartridge or.
gun swab.
Not finding these and realizing that
the case was an extraordinary one
Deputy Sheriff Fernandez telephoned
the facts to Deputy Sheriff Chilling
worth, the coroner At few minutes
before ten O'Clock Friday evening the
latter, accompanied by DR.. Mcdonald,
left in a special train for Makua- There
DR.. Mcdonald held an autopsy. He
found that the bullet of large calibre
rifle had entered the right shoulder of
Joe" and tearing through that had en-
tered the neck at its junction with the
body, torn right through and gone out
again through the left cheek. The bull
let broke the Portuguese's jaw and
shattered his mouth. The doctor was
certain that this was sufficient to cause
instant death. Deputy Sheriff Chilling
worth made diligent inquiries and a
Coroners jury was summoned to meet
in Honolulu on Monday. Flashlight
pictures were made of the body.
Returning Murphy was taken from
the Waianae jail. When taken on the
train he denied ever having said to any
one that a mule had kicked Joe. He
said he did not know how the latter
had come to meet his death. He could |
not give any definite reason for going
to Waianae in his shirtsleeves.
Senator McCandless had gathered
Murphys belongings into small bag
and gave them to him on the train
Murphy Immediately changed his
clothes, put on white shirt and clean
hat and then calmly smoked cigar un-
til he arrived in Honolulu about four
o'clock Saturday morning. He refused
to talk to anyone. When searched at
the Police Station he counted his silver
carefully before giving it over to the
desk man.
Murphy lived alone at waianae. He
had been on a mild drunk since last |
Tuesday In his cottage he did his own |
cooking and was regarded a bad |
man to deal with by the other employees
of the ranch. On Saturday morning he |
purchased some sake of a japanese at |
Makua.
1t is presumed, on the circumstantial /
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Joe was bending over the mule 90 cinch |
the girths of the saddle. The position
Of the wound indicates that Joe Mas
in this position when shot, The ma [
tives declared that there was no one
else around Murphy's house at the time
Of the shooting but Joe and Murphy.
Murphy has not been on the best of
terms with the natives at Makua, ac-
eording to the testimony of those in
the settlement there. He has had
much friction and only a short time ago
was close to his death at the hands of
crowd of the Hawaiian residents,
Who claimed that they had a grievance.
On that occasion Murphy and former
'esident there, were walking along the
Dad when they reached a house where
l luau was in progress. One of the
dawaiians, who showed that he had
'een drinking, ran from the house on
eeing Murphy, and assaulted him. .
'triking him in the face and on the :
'ody. He clinched with his assailant :
md upon this several others of the :
Iatives ran out and assailed him. Only
he interference of the visitor, who I
new the people WELL saved Murphy
rom serious injury, if not from death J
t the hands of the people. 1t is un-
erstood that the man who attacked I
iurphy at that time is a cousin of )