The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-03-12
.SLEUTH MANUEL
HAS A BAD DAY

mrelanlcd iho residence of tho hte
! Fred Wunionhcfg. has been conn
mItiod to she Circuit Court fof
trM on a charge of assault unon un
old mnn. mud ummariiy suspended
from duty nr member Of iho dotoc.
tive force under Chief OF Detectives
I Kalakicla.
Manuel appeared in police court
| Yesterday forenoon 10 answer 90 two
separate charges of assault upon one
s. KnnnH. Hawaiian. The first
charge arose out Of o family difficulty
in which Kaluna was arrested for as
saul upon one Julia during a domes'
lie alteration over money matters.
Manuel was charged with having at
tempted 90 arrest Kaluna without a
warrant. during the course of which an
unprovoked assault, according to the
testimony adduccd yesterday morning
was made upon Knluna.
The second charge was for an as
sault upon the same man because the
latter had sworn to an affidavit charg-
ing Manuel with having burgarzed
the Wundenberg house on Pacific
Heights. Because Of this affidavit,
Manuel according TO the warrant, as
sauted Kaluna The latter asked that
Manuel he placed under bonds to keep
the peace.
When the testimony was finished
Yesterday morning. Judge Andrade sent
for Sheriff Jarrett. He stated to the
sheriff that a jury trial had been de
manded and that took jurisdiction out
of his hands, but as committing mag
istratc he would commit the defendant
TO the Circuit Court and FIX his bono
mt $3.50. However. rs the testimony
showed that Manuel had committed m
unprovokcd assault upon Kaluna, anc
as an affidavit had become "A matter
of record to the extent that Manuel
was accused of having committed
burglary, he felt that he should rec
ommend that the Sheriff suspend Man
uc from the police force, ms the maj
was not fit to act as an officer.
Honolulu, March /, 1909,
I, Kaluna (k), of Honolulu, Coun-
ty of oahu, do hereby assert and
testify to a certain robbery that L
saw with my own eyes committed
by David Manuel as follows:
On a certain night after the death
of Fred Wundenberg who lived on
Pacific Heights, David Manuel came
and got me, accompanied by two
Portuguese boys, about 10 O'Clock
at night, and told me to accompany
them to assist in bringing some
thing that was too heavy for them
to bring. We went UP the Pauoa
horseshoe road little above the
schoolhouse to where the road had
been strewn with inacadam. David
Manuel said that they could not go
any further as the wheel sank in
) the maCadam
On arriving there I saw an iron
bank safe on q wheelbarrow, and
, they then commenced to tie the
a front part Of the wheelbarrow with
I a rope that they brought, and David
, Manuel told me to lift the wheel
. | barrow by the handles while they
r three pulled the rope until we got
to the house. We then lifted it
into David Manuel's and his wife
Julia's room. David Manuel told
/ me to go and get q crowbar outside,
| which did, to break the safe open
| with while he hammered with a
5 chisel. When it was broken open
David Manuel said he thought there
Q was money in it, but when we look
5 ed into it there were only books
and dirt i'll the partition between
@ the irons
!, We then went to bed leaving the
}. safe and books standing in David
Manuel's room until the afternoon
of the next day when 1 came home
after O'Clock, and a hole that had
been dug deep was all buried in,
and those two Portuguese boys, who
assisted him in the stealing OF the
safe were also there. They said
they had buried the safe in the hole
and planted banana on top of it.
In the first part of January just
past, David Manuel told ME to dig
another hole in another part of the
q yard, and for me to dig up the first
q hole that they had buried the safe,
: which l did; and when he came
home at 8 O'Clock we pulled the
q safe until it got up and then rolled
it down into the hole that / had
/. dug and buried it again, and David
4 Manuel then told me tc plant sweet
q potatoes on top of it.
4 On the 22d day of February just
Il past, David Manuel came home to
= our house and said, ''HaVe you
"a heard the news?" said, mo"
n He then said, 1.-THE iron safe of
n Wundonberg that we stole, has been
m found OUT He then said to chop
. W, the wheelbarrow that we
8 Brought up the safe in for firewood
m and do it quick, which did. He
is then asked me if did not feel very
4 distressed over this. did not an
Ne swer. AT ~ O'Clock that night
heard voices talking outside.
RS went TO the window and looked out
# and saw David Manuel and those
,r two Portuguese who stole the safe
II rolling the safe over and tying it
I'd with ropes for TO pack it away,
is which they did, and do not know
as where they took it to.
1 heard conversation between
cd David Manuel and his wife Julia.
III He said it was not good TO bury
In the safe in the dirt, it was better
ch to put it in Sam Ladd's cesspool,
,r. or else in pond of water. Julia
he said it was not good TO put II in
to Ladd's cesspool, they might come
an with long irons and poke at it and
be found Wundenberg's books