The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-14
MUCH CRIME
IN K0.HALA
Murder Trial Delayed
Another Horrible
Murder.

hoHALA, Hawaii, August 9.-Thers
is now being held here quite an event,
full term of courts. with LAWYERS from
all parts of Hawaii present. and Ches.
ter A. Doyle, erinlinologist for the At.
torney-general s department. here
from Honolulu working up the evi
dence III various cases. The court has
been mainly occupied with the trial of
the case of the Territory VS.. Ieveroto
Soto, Portuguese who murdered a
Chinese in the mountains back of Wais
ohInu, kau. Two jury panels were ex.
hausted, and when the case was finally
ready for trial it developed that the
principal witness for the. government
was missing. That was DR.. Mclean,
who performed the autopsy on the
murdered man. He was living in Kau
at the time, but has recently accepted
position on the Eva plantation.
As the case, what with jury and wit
ness fees, had. cost the government
about $4,000 up to that time, a
bench warrant was issued for DR.. Me-
Lean, who had failed to answer regu-
lar subpoena, and the doctor came
down on the Kinau The witness had
been detained at Eva by surgical
operation. As the jury had been ex-
cused until August 16, the case is still
in the air.
On August 5th, Juan Otis and Jose
Kinon, Porto Ricans, fought a duel
with cane knives. Juan carved off one
ear and part of the shoulder of Jose.
The latter is in the hospital, and Juan
is in Jail.
On the same day Japanese luna
working on the Kohala ditch stabbed
a japanese woman named Miyo in the
back, and at the same time cut her
throat. She died instantly. The muir
derer was caught, and County Attor-
ney Williams availed himself of the
presence of Chester Doyle here to have
him work up the evidence against the
man. 1t seems that the luna, whose
name is Okomoto, bought the woman
for $3.50. This was two months ago.
On August LIST. the woman staid away
from home late, and the couple quar-
relied, Okomoto giving the woman q
beating. On the next day, she came
into Kohala from the ditch and had
him arrested for assault and bat
terry. He got out on SIS bail and went
home. On Saturday night, the woman,
who had been stopping with some
friends, went to Okomoto' house to
get her clothes, and the couple quar-
relied again. Okomoto, rushing into
the kitchen, seized big butcher knife
and, grabbing the woman by the hair,
almost cut her head off. She fought
desperately, getting her hands horribly
cut in her efforts to seize the knife,
and it was in the course of the struggle
for this that she was stabbed in the
back. The japanese has confessed the
crime to Doyle.
There was small sized riot among
the Koreans on Kohala plantation on
Monday last. It seems that one of the
lunas assaulted a iaborer, and fifty of
the mans fellows rose on him and
stoned him. Manager Gliding came in
to Kohala on the fly, and got posse
of police who went out and marched
the Koreans into Jail. Then it came
out that the luna had made the first
assault, and so he was arrested and the
Koreans released. whereupon they
quieted down and went back to work
happy.
On Wednesday Jap named Sakimo-
to, working ON the Kohala ditch, lost
his balance while walking along one
of the trails, and fell over a precipice
several hundred feet high. He was In
stantly killed. This makes the sixth
Jap who has met his death in the same