The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-05

7 ing American ideas. Inc MoFEnOI
: maintain an exceedingly active propo
3, ganda. At a recent missionary gather
: ing in Salt Lake City eight hundre
4 former missionaries to Pacific island
: were gathered. They have consider
= able colonies among the population 0
{ the Archipelago, and are pressing thel
,. cause ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS POST.
practically so on New Years day. Ii
showed his right ear which was GU
and caked with blood. He said he hae
fallen down during his spree and th'
cut was the result. He opened his
shirt to show the officers that he haG
| no wounds on his body.
When asked how the shirt that had
| been taken off the night before had
/ blood on it, Johnson replied: mo
that not blood; that dirt-'1epo.' ]
get it on my clothes because sleep
on the ground.
| CONFRONTED WITH CLOTHES.
The prisoners blood-stained clothes
We're then produced by Deputy Sheriff
Cox.
rs that your shirt?" asked the Sher-
iff Yes
You are sure of it?' Yes
rs that red dirt?" pointing to the
numerous stains on the front and
cleeves. Yes
when you took your shirt off it was
just like that?'' Yes
Are these your drawers?" holding
up the blood stained garments. Yes"
And then a change came over John
for an instant and his eyes dropped.
Then he frightened up, but said moth
ing, evidently awaiting the next ques-
ton.
How did that blood get on them"
''Oh, that's only dirt. You see when
I laid down to sleep and got my white
trousers, dirty, it came through and
dirtied my drawers too.
WAS KENTWELL'S COACHMAN.
Johnson said he was an Irishman,
born in Dublin. He said he had been
at Wharton's place for over two t
months. He was an old friend of Mr. !
He had come from Homo /
lulu where he had been employed by
L. K. Kentwell.
Honolulans may generally recall
Johnson as the small-statured, gener-
ally unshaven driver of Mr. Kentwell's
He wore what is known as
'dicer," or derby hat, and often held
the horse for long periods daytime at
the entrance to the Mcintyre block.
BLOOD-CAKED KNIFE.
Deputy Sheriff Cox then produced an
I. X. L. knife which he had taken from
|ohnson's pocket. 1t was rusty and
he officers We're certain that clots and
stains upon the blade and the hank
we're blood. A Ratchet, also smeared
With similar stains was produced. This
vas found in Warton's yard
A PATHETIC INCIDENT.
The party then drove to Warton's, l
which is on the uphills beyond the , '
plantation mill and residences. AS the
'arty neared the Catholic church two =,
acks and number of people on foot t
we're seen approaching. In the front I
eat was the aged father of Simeon c
Wharton, his head bowed in grief On
is knees rested a little white coffin,
I which were the mutilated remains :
the victim. The funeral party Ii
assed into the church yard and the l.
smains were buried there. q
SCENE OF THE CRIME. h
The Wharton home is close to II
tnefield. There are numerous out =
buses and trees about. A path leads n
ON the rear of the house down a Hill fe
ward a gulch, the slopes being COW NJ
ed with young cane. At the edge of O.
canetield, probably two hundred feet
ON the house, tall growths of weeds
Sc, Just off the path, the fiend who til
lied Simeon Wharton carried out his CT
lrpose. 1t was a secluded spot. a.
neither the boy was slowly tortured a,
death by mutilation, or was killed ia
fright may never be known, unless Sc
e murderer confesses. But there the IN
-, o,,,, $780, --. be
away rom 'iIe lo1
dy The head was severed from the
INK, the body opened and the heart,
ST.