The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-21
MORE LIGHT
ON MURDER
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to her house. Then Kaapana, who had
beaten her SO brutaIly, undertook tc
transport the almost lifeless burden
the rest of the way. says Kahula, and
arriving at their house, the husband
propped her against a post.
linen hahula, although he noticed
that the woman's eyes were horribly
| dIscolored and there seemed to be
| cIotted blood in her bedrag gled 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
| said might be used against him and
informed him that he did not have to
testify unless he wanted to. Kaapana
repeated the story he had told. with
out bringing out any new points He
remembered some of the incidents of
the beating he had administered to
the woman with whom he had lived
for four months, but he could not rec
ollect altogether what had led up to
the attack. She had been at the house
of her foster father, Akina, and he
wanted her to go home. She at first
did not want to go with him. but fl
nally started. He had slapped her
when she first argued with him in re-
gard to going home. That was near
the brickyard. Later he kicked and
struck her and a police officer, Napoha,
had demonstrated, but had not other
wise interfered.
Kaapana remembered Kahula help
ing him to get his wife home. She
was placed indoors, after spending a
time on the veranda, and he reposed
beside her to sleep. He had an idea
that she was half-fooling him and that
she was not hurt as badly as perhaps
she wanted it to appear. He slept and
he thought she slept. The idea of her
being unconscious did not appear to
strike him. He had been drinking
heavily down town. When he awoke
in the morning and called to his wife,
lying there beside him. she did not an
swer and sobered, he examined her
and came to the conclusion that she
might be benefited by medical attend !
ance. His sister agreed with him; in
fact, his sister is supposed to have
heen the first to convince him that
his wife was seriously hurt He then !,
went down town to give himself up to I
the police and to ask that the police I
patrol wagon be sent for her to take
her to the hospital. He found at the I
police station that someone had al
ready telephoned for the wagon.
Kaapana was detained at the police /
station. He is now in Oahu prison,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree, the woman having died at 9
o'clock Friday night, about twenty
four hours after the beating which re-
suited in conclusion of the brain,
cerebral hemorrhage, fracture of the
skull, broken ribs, cut lips, black eyes
and internal injuries.
Akina foster father of the dead wo-
man, also testified, as did a lei woman,
Mrs. Edwards, a near neighbor, near
whose house the fatal beating oc
cured. The witnesses seemed to have
thought that the trouble between the
nan and woman was not unusual and
minated previous beatings. No one
had seen the actual beating, although
hey had heard high words of the
and the woman's cries for
Ter man to cease his onslaught
The jury returned a verdict of death
through cerebral hemorrhage caused
~ blows administered by Kaapana.