The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-29

Kamaliikane, the old Hawaiian who
| lies in the Queen 5 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 s
jury, the questions being asked by Dep
iutv County Attorney Milverton.
Yesterday the woundes 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 KamaIii-
kane, had threatened to 9 do for him. >
which is the Hawaiian equivalent for
a 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 ocea-
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 a quarrelsome mood. Mr.. Mi
randa said that Kaaa was not quar-
relsome man, but that Kamaliikane pro-
v0ked 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
one s neck with Ratchet. Kamalii-
kane, when drinking, was extremely
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
-har lxv1nOr IN hn 20
in front of the house.
Dr. Mcdonald testified that Kaaa s
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 |
4 bucket of water and this was thrown |
IN the fire in the Eva bedroom, where i
ne saw a lighted lamp overturned on
he bed. There was no chimney on the /
amp, and the flames there he smothered |
with pillow. He saw bottle of oil
IN the floor in the Eva bedroom. This,
ne said, was the same bottle he saw
zaaa bring away from store during
he evening.
Other witnesses, including Frank Ma
,hado, James Bettincourt, and F. b.
Freitas, testified to finding the burning
BODY of Kaaa in the small clubhouse at
he rear of the residence and dragging
t into the open where they smothered
he flames. Their testimony was togthe
fleet that Kaaa was sitting in pan
which lay on a bench, and the clothing
bout him was on fire. He appeared to
ave a number of different pieces of
lothing about him. One of the young
1en said: tLook at that man, he is
rying to commit suicide. - They sta
ed that Kaaa never made a sound when
hey pulled him out of the house or af-
They noticed oil upon the Il
lOthing.