The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-16
BURGLAR WAhTOhLY
STABS TWO VICTIMS

Nurderous attacks were made early
Yesterday morning on japanese
woman. a nurse at the japanese hos
initial. on Liliha street, and a japanese
ledger in the hotel at the corner u
Smith and Pauahi streets, both pelhs
sta bbed by a Porto Rlcan burglar WfloIl
they caught in the act of plying MS
nefarious trade. The woman Is IN
very dangerous condition and may ole.
The stabbing. especially in the case Oh
the nurse. was done most Wantoilly'
and from the descriptions of their as
sailant given by the two victims IL
seems certain that the same hand dealt
the blows.
Last night Julio Mercado Leandro was
arrested on suspicion of being the man
He was taken by Otscer Joe Leal 10
the japanese hospital mat he might
he identified, but both or the stappeu
persons We're in a too critical CONDITION
TO see him. Both had given good ue-
scriDtions of the burglar, however, ana
the police feel reasonabl certain that
they have the man they want.
The attack on the hospital nurse
Mrs Akahoshi was made shortly pc
fore o'clock yesterday morning. She
had been on night duty, and IN the
course of her work saw the face or
strange man looking at her through one
of the cottage windows. The man was
inside and she entered the room 10
learn his business. AS soon as she had
spoken to him she realized that he was
a desperate of some nature and turned
to run. calling for help as she did SO.
The Porto Rican caught her and at
tempted to throw her to one SIDE 10
make his escape, but she chung to MS
arm and continued to call for assist
ance Whereupon the man drew
knife and plunged it into her back, the
blade entering below the ribs and pene-
trating upwards, the point entering the
| base of the lung. When the help ar
rived, some two minutes after the deed,
| the woman was lying unconscious
! from the wound
About an hour later, Shizo, a new
arrival on the S. S. COptfc from Japan
who was sleeping in his hotel room
| was awakened by the presence of a
| man in the room with him. AS he
awoke he saw the man pick up his
| valise and start out of the room with
it. Jumping up he caught the intruder
by the foot, throwing him down, falling
he was stabbed in the back, close tc
the spine, the knife glancing along the
ribs and making a dangerous flesh
wound.
| The thief escaped, never losing his
| hold on the valise. which was picked
up some hours later in the old gambling
| hole back of the site of the Kaumaka
pill church. 1t had been slit open ant
its contents rified.
| The description of the murderou:
| burglar as given by the two, agrees
| very closely. He is Porto Rical
about 80 years old, a good-sized man
about five feet eight inches in height
He was wearing a gray suit of clothes
and a straw hat, losing the latter dur
ing the last assault.
| The description also agrees yer.
closely with that of the man wante'
for making a murderous assault on ;
| native some weeks ago in Aala lane
AT that time the police had a numbe
of Porto Ricans under arrest On sus
picion, but there was. no prosecution
as direct evidence against none of then
could be procured. Among the buncl
| at that time was the man whom tn
police suspect of being the knifer o
yesterday morning.
Last night it was reported from tn
| Japanese hospital that Mrs. Akahosh
was doing as well as could be expecte
from the dangerous nature of he
. wound and hopes were held out tina
she would ultimately recover. The con
, dition of the other victim of the knife
was also reported to be favorable.
Leandro, the Porto Rican now unde
arrest, lives at Aiea, but is often foun
loafng around in town. He has no oc
cupation and is down on the police lis
as dangerous character.