The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-30
KILLED At
The PRISON
Native Inmate Has
Fatal Fall to
Ground.
Quarrel Starts on Wall
Terminates E. If. 3
Tragedy.
Hemorrhage OF Brain Found to
be the Cause of
Death.

Halulu, a convict in Oahu Prison
met his death last night as the result
of a quarrel between himself and
fellow prisoner by the name of Wani-
lani. The affair occurred about four
o'clock yesterday afternoon and was
witnessed by number of convicts
who were working on the wall that is
being built around the new Jail build
ing. The two men were at work on
scaffold built up at the side of the
coral wall that is being built around
the jail yard On the EVA side of the
old prison building. Just how the af-
fair started is yet an open question
but the first thing that the witnesses
heard was a vile name which one OF
the two men called the other. This
opened the hostilities and in a mo-
ment the men were at each other
struggling on the frair seanolding,
swaying to and fro fifteen feet above
the ground.
1t is pretty we'll established that the
dead man was the aggressor but the
battle was raging hotly on both sides
when Halulu missed his footing and
fell headlong to the ground striking
his head on one of the jagged coral
rocks which We're lying on the ground
at the foot of the wall. In a moment
he was up ana brushing the dust from
his prison uniform. A guard was on
the spot Immediately and took him
into the warden's office An examina- |
ton Showed a small cut in the scalp a |
little over an inch behind the left ear. |
1t was decided to take the man to |
the hospital in order that this slight |
wound might be sewed up and the am
oulance was called. On the way to
the hospital Halulu did not appear to
be seriously hurt but soon after his
arrival there, about a half an hour
after the accident he suddenly collapsed
md died.
Halulu. who was evidently the ag-
sressor, is said to have been a regular
jailbird." He was in reform school
when boy and the police say that
le has hardly been out of prison
week at time since he attained his !
majority. He was serving a two year
entence at the time of his death and
would have been a free man within a
ew months. He was a splendid spe-
linen of physical strength. As far as
,nown he had no family wahiIanl,
he other man, has a better record.
lie is serving a sentence of one year {
or larceny. The sentence will expire ;
n October. {
The postmortem examination of the I
,ody of the deceased showed that he I
.ad come to his death from hemorrhage
If the brain. [
High Sheriff Brown stated last night
hat the deceased provoked the quarrel
which led TO his death.
From the facts 1 have learned said
le, the two men We're working on
caffoidlng. raising coral blocks UP for
he wall which is being built about the I
lew prison. One man complained that {
he other was slow or soldering. Words
anne fast and they were about to ex- f
hange blows when the luna separated I
hem. The luna thought nothing of
he matter, as prisoners frequently get
nto spats with one another. In a
hort time, however. the deceased again
ttacked his neighbor and both Crap I
led and fell. the deceased's head strik- :
ng a stone. The wounded man ap- !
cared to be all right for awhile and '
hen suddenly dropped dead
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