The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-11
SUSPICION OF
MURDER EXISTS
All circumstances Surrounding
Alleged Suicide Point to
Foul Play.


can be afforded by coterie of Japa.
nese who do not desire to tell anything,
Chief MeDuaie is now working on one
OF the most battling cases that has
ever come to his attention, the solving
of which might either bring no reward
whatever or the value of tho work in
glory for him,
Yesterday morning early Japanese
woman named Mitsuno, the wife of q
Japanese actor named Miyaoki, was
picked up by the police in hor room
at the corner of Beretania avenue and
River street, bullet hole in her mouth
and the bullet presumably lodged in
the brain.
According to the report that had
brought the police to the spot the
woman herself had fred the shot with
Suicidal intent and from the testimony
of Japanese physician who had rem
dered first aid and Of Doctor Hobby,
who had treated the wound at the hos
pital, such seemed to be the case. An
hour later, however, Chief McDufie
had, in his hands, the threads of a
curious chain of circumstances that
can hardly allow of another intorpreta.
ton except murder In which there
are four or FIVE accessories.
shortly after the woman had been
conveyed to the hospital the chief,
with Special officer Bergau as inter-
prefer, went to the hospital with Mi
yaoki, the husband The woman was
interrogated, and although she was in
a dying condition she managed to an
'swer II. few of the questions.
She admitted having fired the shot
herself but persistently refused to
state where she had got the gun or
whose it was. When this question was
put to her, she only mumbled and the
officers had to be content with that.
Then Myaoki was questioned and
absolutely denied any knowledge of the
gun at all, saying that he did not know
where she had got it or from whom.
Strange Memory.
Then the chief when to the room of
the couple and searched it, finding
twenty-five or so cartridges in the bu-
reau drawer. Miyaoki, who had been
held under arrest, was confronted with
these, persisted a moment in his de-
NAL, and then admitted that the gun
was his. This remarkable return of
memory resulted in the statement that
he had taken it away from a man
named Chalmers.
Chalmers was sent for, together with
his wife. He confirmed the statement
that the gun had been his but denied
that it had been taken away from him,
saying that he had sold it. His wife
identified the gun also.
AT tins point the chiefs investlga-
lions came to an end through lack OF
material to work on but early in the
afternoon, four men named Nakano,
Yoshida, Seyo and Shikisima, who
the husband claimed, had been on tho
porch when the shot was fired, were put
under arrest and the case became moro
complicated than before.
Different Stories.
During the husband Is interrogation
he had claimed that he and these four
men had been sitting on the lanai when
the woman, who had been missing for
some time, walked by them and passed
into the room. At the time she did
so the five of them had been discussing
the next place where they were to look
for her.
A moment after she had gone into
the room, they heard a shot. They then
rushed up to the door, which they found
looked, and broke in, claiming to have
found the woman in much the same
position as she was when the police
found her.
Seyo, during his examination told an
entirely different story. He claimed
that he and NakanO while at Seyo's
house had seen the woman pass them
and knowing that she was being
searched for, asked her where she was
going and where she had come from.
that they believed her slightly insane
and in consequence they took her back
to her home and her husband.
Then, says SeyO, they stopped on the
porch and the woman went in of her
own accord. An hour afterwards they
heard report and found the woman
dying. Nakano held slightly TO this
story but declared that they had heard
the shot the moment after she went
into the room. This discrepancy is too
great and unusual to be allowed as
natural and as the other men also tell
stories varying to greater or less de-
gree the chief believes them to have
attempted to agree on certain feti-
.lous story without having time to per
feet the details As they were arrest
I'd shortly after the shooting and as
he husband was in instant demand by
he police this supposition seems high
y probable.
Behind the whole matter is the mys.
cry Of cause which is just as vague
e it is a suicide as II is il it is
murder.
Doctor Hobby stated yesterday that
he woman Is case was hopeless. The
bullet tore along her lower jaw, broak.
ny on all tho teeth and then plowed up.
ward. II has not been located but Is
believed 10 have lodged in tho brain.
The four men are being detained
separately in the county prison as there
= no room for them al present In tho
'ity jail where Miyaoh Is detained.
Thief McDune il making every effort
% obtain more information that he can
80 as lever la pryinp omen the mvs.