The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-09-28
CRUEL MURDER
OF s, E. DAMON

ed to glance through the Itlc glass
pane Boo the rear OF the hack and saw
this Porto Bican woman motion behind
her. then two men jumped from behind
"a stone wall and Joined her The de-
putty at once drew his revolver and
Went up To- them and ordered them TO
halt one Of the Porto RiCan men who
was blind, started toward the deputy
but the woman and the other man who
was Jose Miranda. tried TO escape.
ChillinrwOrth took the entire crowd in
to custody and putting them into the
hack had them driven to the police sta
ton. Blood stains on the clothes of
Miranda soon corroborated the belief
of the officer that he had gotten the
right parties. A moment later and the
woman had confessed everything and
placed Miranda within the shadow Of
the gallows.,
After Miranda had been locked in a
cell and manacled and "a guard placed
over him, the woman later confessed to
the Deputy and several witnesses. Sub
seQuently in the presence of High She
rih Brown. Deputy Sheriff Chilling
worth, Secretary Atkinson. Deputy At
torney General Prosser and others. she
made a more extended statement. She
said in regard TO the crime: MY name
is Marie Antonio Collona. I was com
ing into town from Puuloa. / went out
to Puuloa yesterday morning, by cleo
trio car to Kalihi and then afoot This
was about 10 "a. M (Mrs. Grace's daugh-
ter had seen her going in the direction
Of Puuloa after leaving the carr To-
night / go on foot near Moanalua. !
was with Jose Miranda. We come along
the road and see a lantern on the
fence. He told me to take the light.
/ say no bimeby 1 get into trouble. 1
know that cause / been here (meaning
the station too many times already.
Chito, the blind boy, wanted me to take
the light and I say no. / say you take
il Jose then took the lantern himself
and we started toward Honolulu. Two
men come along in carriage toward
Moanalua, l think carriage have two
white men. He stop carriage and say
to us, thinkin' we natives Eth, pehea
hapai kela kukui?' (Why are you taking
that lampO Jose said: You go to,
no - business you We go ont but
carriage turn around and come back to-
ward us. The white man say: You
please put the lamp back Jose said:
You go to --, no - business you
The white man jump out of the rig
and came toward Jose saying Please
put that lamp back saw Jose FUN
bling about his waist. Then I saw
knife in his hand and he went toward
white man with his hand like this
(holding her hand up in striking at
titude.) I see him strike man down
here in stomach, only one time, and
then We turn around to go away.
YER much afraid here in my heart
Just then another man come up, no
two men. Jose say to one man, You
let me go, you stay from me, or dc
same ting to you That's all know
mo, white man no fall down. H,
stumble toward his buggy, granting
and groaning."
The woman also related the circum
stances of Miranda having gone to hel
place some days ago after having beer
released from Oahu prison. The fellow
robbed a countryman Of $40 and alst
held up Chinese after his release las
Friday. The pair had been ordered
away from the place at Puuloa by {
Chinese who owned the place.
Eugene Sullivan corroborated IN,
woman's statements regarding the muir
der. Chito the Porto Rican who wa
the third Of the trio but who was blind
corobOrated the womans statement
of the crime to the extent of realizin!
from the cries and statements at tn
scene of the crime and later that Mi
randa had stabbed somebody as the re
suit of an argument over a lamp.
During the evening, Miranda wa
: questioned by the police and made
, complete confession. He admitter
stabbing Damon or the white mai
: who got out Of the buggy" as he ex
, pressed it. Miranda said that the rea
z son he had stabbed him was becaus
Damon had gotten out of the buggy an
/ gone toward him.
I After the attack, Miranda and hi
7 companion ran up the road a short dis
? lance and took a lane that led them t
2 the railroad track. They followed tn
] track into the city. The man wipe
S the blood on the knife on a poke
e handkerchief that was found in hi
. pocket. He claimed that he threw tn
{ knife away
1 Outside of the police station in tn
/ meanwhile the crowds had been gather
S ing. There were threats to lynch
4 randa. But while there was talk {
e lynching, no leaders appeared to lea
the attack on the prison. A false alarT
K of fire was turned in from Box 10 a
e the corner of Queen and Fort streets
I for the purpose of attracting more pee
q pie to the crowd at the police station
4 Secretary Atkinson appealed to tn
crowd not to indulge in any violent dc
. monstrations but to be calm and a
4 low the law TO take it's course in tn
I prosecution of the prisoner,
In the meanwhile, the prisoner wa
t placed in the patrol wagon surrounde
g by armed police guards and was hastil
/. dashed out of the police station, as tn