The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-26
HOLOCAUST IS MYSTERY
Continued from Page One.l

tCQntlnueQ from rage OuG.1
day evening and yesterday, it seems
that he has not told all that he Knows.
Whether a Japanese assailant was ac
tually there, or whether he is an imagi
nary person, is yet to be determined.
The appearance of the rooms indi-
Gates a struggle, and a theory advanced
while the jury was investigating, was
as follows:
Knowing that the two men have not
always been on the best of terms and
that both have quarrelled, there seems
to be ground for believing they had
fight. The hammer spoken of by Ka-
maliikane as being used on his head,
may first have been used by him on
Kaaa, who in turn took it away from
Kamaliikane. In the fight resulting
bottle of oil in the dining room may
have been picked up by Kamaliikane
as a defensive weapon and the con-
tents scattered on bed clothing and up
on the person of Kaaa. Whatever
causes led up to the starting of the
fire, the appearance of the rooms sug-
gests this hypothesis.
The struggle was carried to the Wal
kiki bedroom in which is a four-poster
bed with curtains drawn on all four
sides. A lamp seems to have rested
on a chair directly alongside the bed.
The chimney seems to have been knock
ed off and the wick flame communicat-
ed to the curtains which burned off and
set fire to bedclothing. If Kaaa was
saturated with oil, the flames were east
lv communicated to him. From this
point it is clear that Kaaa rushed from
that room to the Eva bedroom and
threw himself headlong upon the bed
over which hung an ordinary circular
mosquito net Kaaa s clothing set this
on fire, and, as he lay there the flames
ran around him, the net providing fuel
to burn him terribly. Upon the mat,
trasses are the marks left by the fire
as it PLAYED around his PROSTATE form.
A reporter showed how the man un.
donbtedIv Law with his left hand clutch
ing at the mattress, burned spots show
inc plainly on the ticking where the
fingers broke through, where clothing
at the wrist and at the elbow burned
into the mattress and also where his
stomach came in contact with the tick
ing. Where his head lay the mattress
is burned deeply, indicating that OIL on
his head and the mosquito net served
TO feed the flames 1T is likely that
at this time he rose, pulled about hlm
cloths of any description that came
within his grasp. Then winding them
around him he fed to the rear OF the
house and gained the little shed before
the flames again burst forth and cooked
the flesh of his hands, arms, torso, neck
and head.
Kamaiikane is a well-known Hawai-
ian who is a lomilomi artist and quite
H. aa1
Kaaa was not well man, having
leg disease which caused him to use
cane. He was merely helper at
Miranda s house.
When Kamaliikane told story OF
the affair yesterday at the hospital ana
signed his statement before Chief OF
Detectives Kalakiela, his account dlffer'
ed from that of the evening before. lie
said:
"Kaaa and I were about to go to
bed It was a little before eight
q ,clock. We had not lit any lamp.
We had been sitting up IN the dark
and talking. / went to bed IN my
room near the back of the house and
pulled the mosquito net around me,
while Kaaa went to bed, as L belleVe,
in the next room. ! was just dropping
off to sleep when the back door was
burst open by stranger-he may have
been a japanese from what little [
could see of his outline by means of
the dim rays of the street electric light
which came through the wlndow-and
this stranger came toward me. | jump
ed out of bed and struck a match to
see who it was. While the match was
spluttering I received a blow in the
back of the head with a hammer, and
another right away in the front Of the
head-the first blow was in the back
of the head-and on the third blow I
dropped the match and ram
While wounded Kamaliikane origin
allv told the officers that a Japanese
| had called and demanded money for
| an unpaid bill and when refused at
| tackled him with a hammer and set fire
| to the beds by scattering oil about.
Miranda was not at home the night
| of the tragedy. He says that Kamali-
| ikane once came home drunk and quar-
| relied with Kaaa because the latter had
not prepared his supper. He picked up
| a stick and threatened to kill Kaaa if
| he did not get the supper ready imme
| diately. Other quarrels have taken
| place. As to the kerosene oil, Kama
! liikane is known to have purchased
bottle of it at a Portuguese store
! Thursday evening.
The door iambs, glass doors and the
mating are smeared with blood, indi-
| eating that Kamaliikane rushed from
| one part of the house to another, or
during the struggle of the two men
| these may have resulted in Kamalii-
| kane s attempts to cling to some sup
port. There is also pool of blood on
the front porch
Mr.. Miranda takes no stock in the
story of a japanese assaulting the old