The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-09-25
CONTRADICTORY
TALES OF AN
UGLY TRAGEDY
Continued from Page Five).

house, and nit him with the hammer
(the hammer that was already in the
house, and then set the house afire.
That aKmaliikaA-c is hiding some
thing is very evident.
Kamaliikane told the following story
while lying in the Hospital this morn
ing.
"Kaaa and l were about to go to
bed 1t was a little before eight
O'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 believe, in the
next room, | was just dropping off to
sleep when the back door was burst
open and a stranger, he may have
been a japanese from what little l
could see of his outline by means of the
dim rays of the street electrict light
which came through the window, and
this stranger came toward me. 1
jumped out of bed and struck match
to see who it was While the match
was spluttering l 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 l dropped the match and ran"
Last night Kamaiiikane's story was
to the effect that a Japanese who said
Miranda owed him money came and
demanded the money and then beat
him with hammer and set fire to the
| beds by pouring kerosene over them
when it was told him that Miranda was
not at home
Kaaa, he who is dying of his awful
burns, was today unable to talk. He
will probably die without making a
| statement
Kamaliikane is a very well known
character Louis Mirandas wife was
| adopted, in a way, by Kamaliikane,
and Kamaliikane has usually, when not
travelling on other islands, lived with
| the Mirandas Miranda works in the
store of the Manufacturers Shoe Com
pany and is at present taking a needed
rest on Pacific Heights, suffering from
an organic sickness. Kaaa is Miriam
| da's wife's uncle
These two old men have been con-
stantly quarrelling.
Miranda cites an instance when,
about a month ago, Kamaliikane came
home partly drunk, and he is very
generous drinker, and took home some
fish. He raised trouble with Kaaa be-
cause the latter loafed around and
would not clean the fish for supper
| Kamaliikane seized a large stick and
| threatened to kill Kaaa if he did not
get to work and prepare the supper.
Frequently Kaaa has complained be-
cause Kamaliikane would come home
with lot of drink in him and would
hardly ever bring home anything to
drink for Kaaa. Now and then Kama
liikane would come home with a jag
for himself and small flash for Kaaa.
Kamaliikane's story this morning
does not hitch with what he said last
night in the patrol wagon.
Detective Kalakiela at 4 o'clock this
morning eight hours after the fire, ar
rested two Japanese, Hirai and his
wife, and examined them closely. Hi
rails wife had worked for the Miriam
das From the story of Kamaliikane
it might have been Hirai that beat up
Kamaliikane and burned Kaaa on ac-
count perhaps, of some money due the
Jap's wife, But Kalakiela let both the
Jap and his wife go after an examina-
ton. There seemed not the slightest
evidence upon which to hold them. The
story of Japanese entering the house
is very fishy. In the first place if he
went there for trouble, he was very
opportune in finding the hammer with
which Kamaliikane was injured and it
was one of Kaaa's little round-the-
house odd-jobs to look after the ham
mer and saw and kerosene and lamp
filling and wood-cutting, etc.
A theory which is being followed,
which fits in with the circumstances
as known and the few facts brought
out, is as follows:
Kamaliikane goes nome to the Mi
randa house where no one but himself
and Kaaa are staying while Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Miranda are up Pacific
Heights, and he has jag. He has
taken home some meat. He tells Kaaa
to get supper ready. Kaaa has also
had few drinks and resents the fact
that Kamaliikane has come home In
toxicated or nearly so and has brought
no liquor with him to share with Kaaa
Kamaliikane and Kaaa exchange hot
words over the cooking proposition and
Kaaa goes at him with the household
hammer. Kamalikane, one of the old
gentlemen having that evening pur-
chased fresh bottle of kerosene from
a Portuguese corner grocery store,
/ Tho bottle g a.l .