The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-10-22
MURE LIGHT
ON MURDER

The beating to death of Akaka, the
| flower girl. did not seem to be taken
very seriously in the process by wit
| nesses of some of the proceedings. Ka-
! hula, a Hawaiian, gave interesting new
testimony at the inquest on Saturday
evening.
Kahula is a resident of Nuuanu VAL
ley and shortly before midnight Of
Thursday he was leisurely pursuing his
way homeward when, as he approach
ed Jack lane on the Nuuanu road.
shortly before coming to the old brick
yard, he observed something white Iy-
ing in his path.
Approaching close, Kahula distin-
guished the forms of a man and a
woman, Hawaiians, huddled close.
They appeared to him 10 be asleep:
it also occurred to him that their
sleep. in such place, might have been
caused by drink. Endeavoring To
arouse the man was not without re-
suits. for Kaapana, he who had beaten
Akaka, the woman, into insensibility
and IN such a manner that she cied
from her injuries. was finally induced
to stand upon his feet. Kahula there
upon recognized him and. the woman
who accompanied him. An effort was
made to arouse Akaka, but, inasmuch
as she was gradually sinking to death.
their efforts were in vain. Eventually
Kaapana, murderer, as he proves to
be, induced Kahula to assist him in
conveying the woman to the house
where he and Akaka lived, in an
alley Off Jack lane.
Kahula lifted the unconscious wo-
man and carried her as far down Jack
lane as was necessary to bring her to
the entrance to the alleyway leading
to her house. Then Kaapana, who had
beaten her so brutality, undertook to
transport the almost lifeless burden
the rest of the way, says Kahula, and,
arriving at their house, the husband
propped her against a post.
Then Kahula, although he noticed
that the woman's eyes were horribly
discolored and there seemed to be
clotted blood in her bedraggled hair,
and her lips were cut and bruised and
swollen, thought he had accomplished
all that was necessary and trudged
along homeward. Kahula was sober
at the time.
Kaapana himself was called to tes-
tify at the inquest. Coroner William
Jarrett warned him that anything he
a ia oh ha
informed him that he did not have to
testify unless he wanted to. Kaapana
the story he had told, with
put bringing out any new points. He
some of the incidents Of
the beating he had administered to
the woman with whom he had lived
,or four months, but he could not rec
ollect altogether what had led up to
The attack. She had been at the house
If her foster father, Akina, and he
wanted her to go home. She at first
lid not want to go with him, but f.
tally started. He had slapped her
when she first argued with him in re-
,ard to going home That was near
he brickyard. Later he kicked and
truck her and police officer, Napoha,
lad demonstrated, but had not other
wise interfered.
Kaapana remembered Kahula help
ng him to get his wife home. She
vas placed indoors, after spending
ime on the veranda, and he reposed
eside her to sleep. He had an idea
hat she was half-fooling him and that
he was not hurt as badly as perhaps
he wanted it to appear. He slept and
e thought she slept. The idea of her
eing unconscious did not appear to
trike him. He had been drinking
cavity down town. When he awoke
4 the morning and called to his wife.
ting there beside him, she did not an
wer, and, sobered, he examined her
nd came to the conclusion that she
hight be benefited by medical attend
nee. His sister agreed with him; in
act, his sister is supposed to have
cen the first to convince him that
is wife was seriously hurt. He then
ent down town to give himself up to
lie police and to ask that the police
atrol wagon be sent for her to take
er to the hospital. He found at the
olice station that someone had al
lady telephoned for the wagon.
Kaapana was detained at the police
alton. He is now in Oahu prison,
larged with murder in the first de-
rec, the woman having died at
clock Friday night, about twenty
ur hours after the beating which re-
Ilted in concussion of the brain,
rebral hemorrhage, fracture of the
,ull, broken ribs, cut lips, black eyes
Id internal injuries.
Akina. foster father of the dead wo-
an, also testified, as did lei woman,
rs. Edwards. a near neighbor, near
hose house the fatal beating oc-
rred. The witnesses seemed to have
ought that the trouble between the
an and woman was not unusual and
timated previous beatings. No one
d seen the actual beating, although
ey had heard high words of the
arreling and the woman's cries for
r man to cease his onslaught.
The jury returned a verdict Of death
rough cerebral hemorrhage caused
blows administered by Kaapana.
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