Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-06-01
PAID FOR BURIAL.
THIN SHOT HIMSELF

! Joe Paakaula well known Hawaii
an, committed suicide yesterday after
noon at his house on the Punchbowl
slope by shooting himself with revolt
yer. Dependency caused by sickness
and the loss of property was the rea-
son for the rash deed, which had been
planned with great elaboration by the
! deceased
Paakaula had6been the owner OF the
house on Punchbowl at which he took
! his life He is understood to have lost
it lately through legal proceedings, and
this evidently preyed on his mind. Yes
! terday morning he left the house on
River street, where he had been living
with his wife, and went to the Punch
bowl house, where he spent the entire
day. In the afternoon at little after
5 O'Clock he shot himself, using a A
caliber Smith & Wesson revolver,
which he held above his ear and SO
close to his head that the bullet which
penetrated the skull cut right through
the earguard of the spectacles which
he was wearing. Death must have fol-
lowed very shortly.
| The report of the shot was heard by
Mrs. D. l.. Wilmington, who lives in
the neighborhood, and she and Others
Invent to the scene. They found Paa-
kaula dead. A black dog which always
accompanied him had been tied by his
master close to the place where he took
his life.
Deputy Sheriff Jarrett, who investi.
gated the case, found that the deceased
had planned his suicide with the most
careful deliberation He had a few
days ago paid for the cremation of a
body and had on the night before he
shot himself Joined a Hawaiian benefit
society. In the pocket of the dead man
Jarrett found a letter in which Paa-
kaula in a pathetically businesslike
tway gave instructions regarding his af-
fairs.
The letter was written on eight
pages, evidently torn out of an ac-
count book, and was written in a clear
and steady hand 1t was addressed to
Mrs. Esther McCandless, the wife OF
a painter by that name The pages of
the letter were folded and bore on the
outside the following inscriptions:
ITO my dear cousin Esther Leialoha
McCandless.
'Ka huhui XII e haawi ia ]. F. Col
burn (Give the bunch of keys to J.
F. Colburn.) And my gold watch to
our nephew X. Nawahi."
The text of the letter itself was as
follows:
Puuwaina, May 81, '07.
To my dear cousin, Mrs. e. l.. Nc
No fnr
Full of sorrow, poverty and sickness
is the cause of my death. 50
Please find my body and took charge
of it. | believed after the Sheriff get
throught with his business.
Wrap me iI my wife wedding dress.
Cremated mybody, apd my ashes to be
taken and buried with my beloved wife
where she slept in peace for the last
tight years in the little church yard
of Lanakila, N. Kona, Hawaii, our last
resting place in this world
| sent by the last steamer to j. d.
Paris of Kaawaloa the sum of one
hundred dollars for the benefit of La
nakila Church in memory of my be-
Owed wife Esther Paakaula.
In my coat pocket you will find re-
ceipt for cremating my body, and an
other rect. of my being a member
brother of the Hui Poo Kauikeaouli."
e hooko keia mau mea pau ma
luna ae no'u kuahine execute the
foregoing, sister.) To my present wife
Mrs. j. G. Paakaula my earnest prayer
for her recovery from illness. She is
very good, honest, true and faithful
to me. God bless her and may she
live long and be happy
To end this world of sorrow and
trouble which l could not bear it. Now
have taken my own life with my
own hands and in my God trust. He
can forgive me; and in Him my only
soul will be safe forever and ever.
Amen.
JOSEPH PAAKAULA.
The following cOroners jury was en-
raneled by, Jarrett: Manuel Olmos,
Leslie Scott, Ernest F. Aguiar, Alva
l.. Eakin Ben F. Vickers and Otto
Schilling. They returned verdict last
night to the effect that Paakaula came
to his death through "a bullet wound
caused by himself with suicidal in
tent"
Paakaula had been married three
times. He was divorced from his first
wife, the second died some eight years
ago, and the third, who was formerly |
Mrs. Aukai, is still living. The de-
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