The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-17

Story of the Assault on
Chan Sun LAX,
Korean.

Chan Sun Oak, the Korean who was
shot on Monday night at Alewa, near
the end of Judd street, was the vic
tim of another Korean s jealousy. but
Sun Oak was the wrong man. zee
Man Young, who is under arrest for
attempting to murder Sun Oak, mis-
took the latter for Korean named
Che Aujae. zee Man Young and Cho
AuJae We're rivals for the affections of
woman. In giving her preference to
zee Man Young, she aroused the jeal-
ousy of Che Aujae and he endeavored
to kill not only the man, but the
woman. zee Man Young also tried his
hand at Kidding the world of Cho
AuJae and the woman. 1t all wound up
by zee Man Young going cunning for
Che Aujae and shooting Chan Sun Oak,
who was entirely outside of the feud-
an innocent victim. The shooting, it
will be remembered, took place almost
in front of Mr.. Emmeluth s place,
where Sun Oak was employed at the
time, and where zee Man Young had
at one time been yard-boy.
zee Man Young has confessed to the
police that he aid the shooting and
gave his reasons. The confession came
primarily through his endeavoring to
swallow a pellet of paper when taken
to the police station. tie was seen to
place the paper in his mouth. Officers
choked him and compelled him to dis
gorge the pellet. In Oriental charac-
tiers the names of zee Man Young and
that of the woman in the case, who IS
not Korean, by the way, were in
scribed on the paper. With this clew
Assistant Sheriff Henry Vida began an
investigation, and with the confession.
the entire story Is now complete.
zee Man Young several months ago
became yard boy for family at Ale
wa. Cho Aujae came more recently
AS cook Both fell in love with the
same woman, who resided at or near
the house. zee Man Young threatened
to end the woman IS existence unless
she threw over Che Aujae. The latter
said he would kill her unless she gave
up zee Man Young. At length the
woman cut the Gordian knot by send
ing zee Man Young away and getting
him room on Kukui street near River
Ostensibly she was getting rid of zee
Man Young. However, Che Aujae saw
his rival and the woman in Sing Low s
store. zee Man was quite overcome
at the discovery. This was on Mon
day. The trio repaired to zee Man
Young's room. Cho Aujae locked all
the doors downstairs SO as to keep the
pair imprisoned Then fight ensued
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Although the victor, Che Auiae en-
deavored to jump out of a window to
commit suicide, but the other two held
him back. Finally, zee Man Young
said he would withdraw in favor of
Che Aufae. However, he changed his
mind and decided the best thing to do
would he to kill the pair and then him.
self. Che Aujae thought he might as
well kill zee Man Young. He left the
house and returned with rusty re-
would not work.
There was another discussion, result
ing in zee Man Young going away.
He went to Korean hotel and dis
guised himself by wearing cap in
stead of a hat. Then he went to the
vicinity of the house where Che Auiae
worked, and from which place he, zee
Man Young, had been discharged. H Z,
waited in the shade of tree and
finally when he saw a man emerge
from the yard he fired his revolver
and then ran away But the man whom
he had shot was Sun Oak. who had be-
come yard-boy in his place. zee Man
Young fed to Eva, pawning his revol-
yer for 50 with a friend.