The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-19
KAAP ANA'S STORY
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all the time, but sometimes my sister
she brings wine and when l see the
wine l want to drink and wife she
drinks, too, and we talk loud, though
never before did l beat her. only may
be sometimes slap her with my hand.
II lived with Akaka only four
months Before that we play sweet
hearts, then 1 live with her four
months Maybe before l told her that
| do not like her to go to the house
where her other first husband live but
we do not think of that at the time
we had the row.
In the road when we we're having |
the row I saw Napeka, the policeman, |
and he came up to me and told me not
to beat my wife. He told me if l did
not listen he would call to the police !
station.
after we start home together we
fight some more and kick her in the
head and somewhere about the knee,
| do not remember where was bare
foot pulled her hair In the morn
ing l see a lot of blood and dirt on her
head and l understand | pulled her
hair in the road
Some man he come. and help me
take Akaka to our house. | told her
/ to stand up and go home, but she
/ don't speak and she can't stand up,
| though I think maybe she's fooling
me. We carry her and put her on the
veranda and l lie down and go to
sleep beside her and she sleep too, l
think. Kahula he help me to take
her home In the morning l call my
sister and | dress up to go to the
police station to tell that she is sick
and to send the patrol and to give my
self up.
That's what l understand that me
and Kahula took her inside and put
her on the mat and l lie down, too.
When l call her in the morning she no
answer me and l see blood on her hair
and she had hole in her head.
understand that was about twenty
minutes to six in the morning (Fri-
day. l do not remember why we
make a row. / remember I hit her
something's l remember and something's
| don't.
Il think my wife about 3S years old.
She has two daughters in Honolulu
and two sons in Salt Lake and one
child with a haole who went to Cali
fornia She has a grandchild here"
In answer to various questions, Kaa-
pana stated that he remembered beat
ing his wife, but did not recollect the
reason of the row other than he want
ed her to go home and at first she
would not go and that he had tried to
t make her quit drinking and she would
not quit. The jealousy part he says
was not thought of at the time as
near as he "can understand" He fire.
quently used the expression "as / I'M
derstand" and was asked whether he
really remembered beating his wife OF
] whether he merely understood that he
2 had done so from what he found out in
: the morning after the beating.
8 Akaka died at 8 o'clock last night at
the Queens hospital, never regaining
consciousness from the time her con-
sort knocked her out. The doctors
trepanned her for conclusion of the
, brain, but she had little chance of life
in any event
Kaapana in police court this morn
ing was arraigned, waived examination
was formally charged with murder and
was committed to the circuit court.
The cOroner's jury, to look into the
: circumstances this evening, is COM
: posed of the following: James c. Grow
Joe S. Nobriga, Otto Schilling, Jim
Kupihea Palenapa and N. X. Puhui
On the Nuuanu road where the brutal
beating occurred probably some time
between 9 and 10 o'clock Thursday
night there is a lathe fence the lathes
running criss-cross. In several places
, this had been broken as by a weight
being thrust against it. All around
, the grass was pressed down, trampleC
and there were clOts of blood 1t is
possible that stone had been used by
I the man in fracturing the woman's
e skull. The spot shows unmistakable
n signs of horrible crime.
/, Akaka, so says her daughter, had s2E
in cash with her when she left home
= on Thursday to go to Edwards house
This money has not been accounted
S for.
S Major Potter yesterday informed the
sheriff that he had passed along the
road while the row between Kaapans
and Akaka was in progress. He hear(
the woman cry and he heard the re
mark of the man. IN fix you, damn
you!" The woman had apparent!
not been injured at that time.
t Napeka, the police officer, who faile,
, to place Kaapana under arrest when h,
{ was beating his wife will be discharged
from the service of the department b!
Sheriff Iaukea
Yesterday Kaapana made a state
ment to the police, as follows:
= There were four of us and we wen