The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-09-29

to help himself or even TO talk.
Kamaliikane, the old Hawaiian who
lies In the Queen 8 hospital recovering
. from several hammer wounds on his
head, the result of a struggle between
himself and Kaaa, his former friend
who died of burns from a fire imme.
diately following the struggle, was put
through another long cross examination
yesterday afternoon by the coroner g
jury, the questions being asked by Dep.
uty County Attorney Milverton.
Yesterday the woundea man admitted
that there had been quarrels between
himself and Kaaa over the preparation
of several suppers, and that angry
words had passed and on one or two
occasions Kaaa, according to Kamalii-
kane, had threatened to "do for him, -
which is the Hawaiian equivalent for
n threat to kill. Kamaliikane, when
demonstrating with Kaaa for not pre-
pairing the fish, said that he told Kaaa
If he would not prepare the fish for
supper, he would feed him (Kaaa) on
salt in future. The testimony of Louis
Miranda at the evening session of the
jury gave details of the quarrels be.
tween the two men, in one of which
Miranda was a witness. On this occa-
sion he found Kaaa lying on his back
on the floor with Kamaliikane standing
over him with a big stick. Kamalii.
kane had been drinking that day and
was in quarrelsome mood. Mr.. Mi.
randa said that Kaaa was not quar-
relsome man, but that Kamaliikane pro-
voked rows. Spats between the two old
men were almost of daily occurrence.
Kamaliikane yesterday assured the
jury that he knew his assailant on
Thursday night was Kaaa, but beyond
this he gave no additional information
of the reasons why Kaaa should assault
him. Kamaliikane said he was not
drinking on Thursday except in the
morning, but DR.. Sexton, the resident
physician at the hospital stated that
while examining Kamaliikane Thursday
night he noticed his breath was tainted
with liquor.
A long list of witnesses testified at
the evening session. Louis Miranda, at
whose house the tragedy occurred, said |
that both men quarreled and each had |
threatened the other, the threats vary
ing as to the manner in which they |
would put their revenge into execution. |
Kaaa, he said, was to cut the other |
ones neck with a Ratchet. Kamalii- |
kane, when drinking, was extremely |
quarrelsome and found fault with ev-
erything that .Kaaa did or wanted to
do.
The witnesses who answered the call |
for help said that Kamaliikane was try
ing to put out the fire in the Waikiki
bedroom, while one said he was wan
dering aimlessly about the house, and
when next seen was lying ON the grass
in front of the house.
DR.. Mcdonald testified that Kaaa IS
death was caused by burns. He found
no wounds on the body or the skull.
Lawrence Cunha testified that when
he entered the house with Tobin he had
a bucket of water and this was thrown
on the fire in the Eva bedroom, where
he saw lighted lamp overturned on
the bed. There was no chimney on the
lamp, and the flames there he smothered |
with pillow. He saw bottle of ioil
on the floor in the Eva bedroom. This,
he said, was the same bottle he saw
Kaaa bring away from a store during
the evening.
Other witnesses, including Frank Ma
chadO, James Bettineourt, and 7. b.
Freitas, testified to finding the burning
body of Kaaa in the small clubhouse at
the rear of the residence and dragging
it into the open where they smothered
the flames. Their testimony was to the
effect that Kaaa was sitting in pan
which lay on a bench, and the clothing
about him was on fire. He appeared to
have a number of different pieces of |
clothing about him. One of the young
men said: "Look at that man, he is
trying to commit suicide" They sta
ted that Kaaa never made a sound when
they pulled him out of the house or af-
forwards. They noticed oil upon the