The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-06
MURDERED
At IW|LE|
Tragedy the Outcome
of a Japanese
Spree.

Murder was the emu OF a drunken
carousal last night among half a dozen
japanese, the tragedy taking place in
the second story of long building in
the tenderloin district of Iwi1ei The
murderer is believed to be Koseki. a
hackdriyer with whom the murdered
man had had a quarrel earlier in the
evening. The police began the search
for Koseki within an hour from the
time the body was discovered
The tragedy seems to be the con-
Guiding chapter in former murder
which had its inception at Waialua
-ands ended a few weeks since when the
murderer, Hayashida. was sentenced
to Oahu Pri on for a long term of
years. The man murdered last night
is said to have been the principal wit
ness against Hayashida, his testimony
going far to place the latter within
the shadow of the gailows. Hayashida,
to escape such an ignominious fate,
pleaded guilty to manslaughter and
thereby saved his neck
THE TRAGEDY.
Last evening Miyamoto invited a
number of friends into his room to have
a feast. Among those present were
Suyemoto now dead: Koseki of Iwi-
lei, now being pursued by the police;
Furuta of Iwilei; Otsuka, living next
door to his host; Saito, of Honolulu,
who remained but a short time; Ko-
rnoda and Shibuya; Sakamoto of Ho-
nolulu Ida of Iwilei and Yanerui, the
latter being a geisha girl. who enter
tanned the guests with dancing and
singing
In honor of the occasion Miyamoto
had elevated q shrine-a tiny quaint
wooden box with a latticed house re-
vealed in the background. In the fore
ground two tiny lamps were burning,
and suspended from the shrine was a
piece of paper inscribed to the goddess
of fortune. Beneath this shrine the
actors in the coming tragedy began
their carousal. Demijohns of sake and
wine with tobacco and matches We're
placed on the floor in the center of the
circle OF squatting Japanese. AS the
contents of the demijohns decreased
the spirits of the guests rose and the
men became noisy. Then came a time
when Koseki did not agree with Suye-
moto. A blow was struck and soon thes
two men were pummelling each other.
A beer bottle was picked up by Ko-
.seki and he is believed to have struck
Suyemoto in the forehead with the
same making an ugly cash. Friends
separated the fighters and the wound
was stuffed with some herbs.
MiYAMOTo'S DISCOVERY.
The wine gave out and the host left
the room and was driven to town for
more. On his return he says he found |
a room empty of his guests save Suye-
Tnoto whom he found lying in the mid
die of the floor, half naked and in a !
pool of blood. It was a CHASTITY sight |
and Miyamoto called for help.
Then two Porto Rican girls who lived |
opposite remembered that, but a short I
time before, they had heard scuffling |
in the room opposite and saw two men |
struggling as far as the veranda.
To Deputy Sheriff Rawlins. Miyamo-
to, owner of the room. said: Il en-
tertained my friends. We had wine and
when that gave out I went for more.
on my return 1 found the body of Suye-
Inoto on the floor covered with blood.
Koseki and Suyemoto had a quarrel
earlier in the evening but we separated
them None of my friends were present
when returned
WHAT ROOM REVEALED.
An inspection of the room revealed
no trace of a knife, the man having
been murdered by knife wound in the
throat, while another wound was made
in the abdomen. The body was clad
only in an undershirt. On the door-sill
opening upon the veranda was a large
pool of blood, and upon the outside of
the door-jamb We're bloody finger
marks. A bucket just outside the door /
had bloody water in il, where, appar-
emily the murderer had washed his
hands. A trunk stood in corner a few
feet from Suyenoto's head. Upon this
were several articles of clothing, in
Guiding a kimono. Bloody finger marks
showed upon this end it was partly
damp. apparently from hands and fin
gers that We're wet with blood. One
corner of the kimono. where it was COW
cred with blood stains, was caught un- j
Ger the lid of the trunk. Just what i
was intended to be done with the XII
mono is not clear but the corner on |
,eing pulled from the lid showed stains y
md it was as wet as the portion which /
had been exposed. Whether the person i
wiping his hands on the kirnono en- I
deavored to put the klmono away in
the trunk is not clear. The trunk. on
being opened showed the interior con-
.ents arranged neatly. On the kimono | J
ay a small Turkish towel which was {
soaked with water and showing here !
md there bright stains in a mass of I
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