The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-09
JAP GAMBLER
is MURDERED
Confession Of Man Who
is Accused OF the
Crime.

murder of a japanese gambler heai
his room on Sunday night.
The murdered man was known as
iN1oriama Tfngora or Tintaro. and he
lis said to have arrived here from Homo
Iolulu about six months ago with his
wife. They located in one of the two
story skyscrapers in smithville and
within a short distance of Front street.
Tingora spent Sunday drinking and
at six o'clock in the evening he was
sleeping off drunk when, his wife
states. he was awakened by another
gan bier. A conversation followed and
/ the deceased was urged to come down
lstairs as he was wanted. The man re-
fused to go and force was used to move
! him. The caller is said to have been
! a small man, while the deceased was a
! strongly built individual and large
| enough to have thrown the caller off
| the veranda. Once down stairs and out
! of the house two companions of the
! caller stepped from behind the house
and hammered him over the head with
clubs, the Instruments being afterward
| found by the police. When the man
was battered il to a state of insensi-
bility the caller drew a cleaver or a
| Ratchet and struck Tingoro on the
head with it, cleaving the skull and
cutting through the brain. The man
was left for dead and the trio ran
away.
The woman recognized the caller who
came into the house as one Morito, and
he surrendered himself at the police
station on Thursday night. He said
he had heard the police wanted him
and he came in to give himself up. He
denied any connection with the crime
and said he could prove an alibi.
He named several Japanese with
whom he had spent Sunday from four
o'clock and these men were sent for
Their stories tailed with that Of Mo-
rito. When the sheriff dismissed the
witnesses he called Morito in again
and during an inquiry the man broke
down and confessed to the killing, but
added that he was first attacked by
Moriyama with Ratchet and that he
took the Ratchet away from him and
struck him down. He failed to i1npli-
cate anyone else.
WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH 1T.
The Hilo Herald has this: ''It has
been suggested that now that the pa
vilion at Mooheau Park has been dedi-
Gated The park trustees should gather
together and decide to what use it may
be put and be of genuine service to the
public. AS a dancing pavilion it will
not be a success for the reason II It
either the armory or SpreckelS Hall
offers better accommodations for those
who WISH to dance. There is an opin-
ion in town that the pavilion might he
enclosed with glass and turned into a
conservatory, where the choicest palms
and ferns and real tropical plants
might be kept for show. The trustees
of the park cannot rent the place Tor
public gatherings because in doing so
they would interfere with men who
are in the business of furnishing such
places It a profit. The dess.Id leans
to the conservatory idea and hopes
that after the novelty of the pavilion
wears OF it may be used for that pI.r-
pose. Som. one has suggested that
the under part of the building, not al
ready finished for the use of the pub
lie, re divided into small dressing
rooms for persons who occasionally
battle in the bay in that vicinity. That
in itself is an excellent idea AMI might
be carried out without interfering in
any way with the uses to which the
other part may be put.
AS sCon as the species of grass can
be eradicated from the grounds at
Mooheau, the trustees will begin pant
ing trees. J. a. Scott has a large num-
Der of palm trees of different varieties
which he will donate to the trustees
a suggestion is wanted for a hedge
o. screen to shut out the view on the
town end of the park; Mr.. Richards
thinks a hedge of HIBISCUS behind date
palms would make a pretty screen. the
hibiscus furnishing the coIoring. He is
not welded to this idea and if anyone
has something better he will be glad
to receive suggestions. 1t is expected
that the lease to the land near Rain
bow Falls Will arrive in Hilo on the
Kinau today
SPRECKELS AND MATSON.