The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-19
DRUNK BRUTE
COMMITS A
MURDER
Kaapana's Mistress a
Victim of His
Jealousy.

There were four of us and we went
| to eat rice at Chinese restaurant. We
drank up square-faee bottle of gin
Afterwards we drank some more al
the Fashion Saloon. There were three
of as then and we drank four glasses
of beer each, and two drinks of whis-
key each. l went back to the saloon
and bought a bottle of wine-and
then | went home.'' Statement of
kaapana last night.
Then he went home and beat his wife
to death, or beat her to such an ex-
tent that she died at the Queen s Hos
pital at 8 O'Clock last night without
recovering consciousness
kaapana will now have to answer
for the killing of Akaka, his wife. or
the woman with whom he had been
living
kaapana "then went home" Thurs
day night and rowed with the woman,
she who sold flowers on the Hotel
street stand. He objected, he says,
to her visiting at the house of former
paramour. So he whaled the life out
of her body and invited the hangman s
moose,
Neighbors in Niolapa, Nuuanu, heard
them quarrelling, but apparently did
not interfere. They lived in Jack lane
and there were many within calling
distance. The woman, also, may have
been drinking to some extent, but this
does not appear definitely. In any
event, according to the comparatively
calm account given of the affair by
the homicide himself, he went home
steaming with liquor, got his sweet
heart into the road, banged her head
against the fence, smashed his brute
fist into her eye, split the lips he had
so often kissed, by a crack with his
knuckles, knocked her down and jump
ed on her body, kicking in her ribs,
dragged her round awhile by the hair
of her head and otherwise behaved
as the drunken brute he was, after the
manner of an alleged man with a /,
privileged brain-storm.
Meanwhile, somewhere between the |
kicks in the face and the dance on her |
body, the lady mereifuily forgot things. /
This was indicated by the cessation /
Of screams Her eyes closed and have
lot since opened.
At Gas clock yesterday morning /
Kaapana. who years ago bit off man s
nose and went to Jail for 1T, strolied
lown to the police station to tell them
hat he had brain-storm and couldn t
'emember all that he had done. Some
# the gas from the gin and beer and
yhiskey had by that time ceased their
PRESSURE on what brain he had.
Yesterday afternoon. Doctors Water
Louse and Osmers trepanned Akaka, but
While the operation was as all that 1t
ould have been, the patient practical
V had no chance of life before the skull
7as treated.
There's one other thing Kaapana
ecollects. Assisted by some acqualnt-
nee he dragged the unconscious, bleed
ng form of his partner to their house
nd placed her on a mat, lying down
eside her tortured, dying body to sleep ,
yer his beastly jag.
When he awoke he called her, he
allied for Akaka But she did not
nswer him. she could not. Then he !
ent downtown to tell the police to
and the patrol wagon to take her to
le hospital-she was sick. As he got
lere he heard the receiving clerk an =
vering a telephone call for the patrol
,r the same purpose. Then he told
le police that he had been drunk be-
re he Ewent home ~ :.