The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-22
Attempt at Suicide Follows a
Bloody Crime, but May
Not BE Successful.
VICTIM is JAPANESE WOMAN
A Servant of Judge Lindsay Is
Slain Under Mysterious
Circumstances.
(From Thursdays Advertiser.)

(From Thursdays Advertiser.)
One of the bloodiest murders in the
police annals of Honolulu occurred
about eight O'Clock last night at the
residence of Judge Lindsay in Collegs
Hills, the murder being almost i'm
mediately followed by an attempt at
suicide which may prove to have been
successful. The murderer, who at
tempted to complete the bloody tragedy
by taking his own life, was still alive
last night when the patrol wagon ar
rived, and was taken to the hospital,
where an attempt will be made to
save his life so he can be hanged.
The murderer victim was pretty
little japanese girl named Rio, the
house servant of Judge Lindsay's
family. The murderer had not been
positively identified last night, though
it was thought that he is Tanaka, a
Japanese who works as a house servant
for II. E. Hendricks.
Room shamble.
The room in which the murder took
place was a shamble when the officers
burst open the door, The woman lay
on her face on the floor, in pool of
blood stone dead, her head nearly
severed from her body. Alongside her
lay her murderer, his own throat cut,
and apparently in the last agonies. The
only sign of life he exhibited was n
spasmodic movement of his chest as he
tried to draw his breath through his
severed windpipe. There was blood
verywhere-except, strangely enough,
on the untouched white bed.
The most gruesome feature of the
tragedy was the way the man attempted
to take his own life. Judge Lindsay
stood outside the door of the servant IS
quarters, where the woman was already
lying dead, and heard the man delib-
erately saving away at his throat with
the knife which had already turned the
pretty little Japanese woman into a
mass of dead clay.
| Might Have Escaped.
Whether the murderer had the crime
carefully planned and executed to be
able to make his escape without leav-
ing a clue as to his identity, or whether
he simply killed the woman, reckless
of consequences, is uncertain. But 1t
is certain that if Judge Lindsay and his
family had not heard the cries for help
uttered by the woman before she
breathed her last, the murderer would
have had an excellent chance of escape.
Judge Lindsay's Story.
81 was sitting in the house." said
Judge Lindsay, "playing cribbage
with my wife, when we both heard a
cry, Mrs. Lindsay! Mrs Lindsay! Mrs
Lindsayl'
81 didn't imagine what was happen
ing, but / jumped up and rushed out
doors toward the servants quarters
the direction from which the cry
seemed to come. On the way out ]
picked up board that lay on Tho
ground, not knowing what / might en-
counter.
81 tried to open the door of the
servants quarters, where ] knew the
, girl was, and the door opened about
half way. Then / felt it come in con
tact with a human body, or what fell
like human body, and it was slammed
back in my face and / heard the latcl
sprung
"Still l didn t realize what was hap
pening, and i called out for the on,
inside to open the door. There was NJ
answer, but i heard someone move, AM
then the window on the opposite sid
of the room was slammed down. / raj
around to that side, but could not SCI
anyone. ] went back to the door ant
called out, 'Open the door or II
shoot That was all a bluff, for
didn't have gun on the place.
A Gruesome Sound.
~ stood outside the door for
while, and then / heard noise lilk,
J someone saving. I thought whoeve
was in there was trying to saw through
the thin partition.
elm the mean time Mrs. Lindsay bat
run over to Mr.. Dillingham's place
nearby, and lie came over, and ais,
Charlie Hemenway, who lives only
phoned for the police, and after I
, while two Of them came and we brOk'
down the door. That's what W.
found
The judge pointed into the room
. rocking with blood.
"The woman" said Judge Lindsay
chad been working for US only abou
! week, but we had found her vaG,
good servant. never saw the MAJ
before. They say he may get well
hope not, II ho does, the Tcrrltor,
will have to hang him"
The members nf Judge Lindsay
family were naturally very much upse
? over the AFFAIR, but there wort ~
Mysteries and no lack ~ presence vi
mind
Murderer May Recover