The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-20
SUDDEN DEATH
COMES TO TWO
Unwritten Law Calls Down a
Terrible Punishment on Man
and Woman.
tFrom Monday q Advertlser.l

rive hours aller the deed was com
mitted Kamaka, dusty and bloody, pre-.
scented himself at the police station in
the city and surrendered himself for
murder The officers were at first in
clined to doubt his story, but locked
HIM up and telephoned to Kailua for
details. No one there had heard of any
tragedy and it was not until later that
a call from the place verified the man S
story and placed on the records another
double murder as bloody as the many
that have occurred during the past few
months.
Kamal1 was once a trusty in the
Jail where he presented himself to atone
! for his crime early yesterday morning.
and had been married to the. wife he
murdered but few weeks. He was
deliberately cool in his attitude, and
not until the afternoon, when he faced
coroner S jury at Kailua, did his voice
betray the slightest emotion and then
only when he said that he had given
himself up to the police that they might
hang him.
Yesterday morning Chief McDufle,
Deputy Rose, Doctor Emerson and the
prisoner went in the police auto to the
scene of the tragedy of the night be-
fore. The whole countryside beyond
the Pail was soaked with rain and tor
rents came down the entire afternoon,
muddying the way for the officers and
finally stalling them altogether.
Doctor Emerson made an examination
of the bodies in house near where
the double murder had taken place.
AXE s whole chest and abdomen were
riddled with shot, death having occur
red few minutes after the shooting.
The woman s throat had been neatly
| gashed from ear to ear with one stroke
of small knife, the arteries being cut.
On the way to the scene and later
at the inquest called by Deputy Sheriff
Frank Pahia, Kama told his story.
Together with company of friends,
he had been caTousing in one of the
houses in the small settlement at Kai-
lua, a few miles north of Waimanalo
and south of Kaneohe. None was
drunk, although all had been drinking.
About ten clock he saw his wife
leave the room, followed by Louis AXE,
a man of the same age as himself,
thirty-fve. He paid no attention to
them at that time, but later stepped
out and called her.
She did not answer, and he called
again. Finally, with several friends,
he commenced to look for her, but was
unable to find either her or the man
who had left the house with her.
They went to Axes and to their own
house, and finally, as he was returning
to the house where the carouse was
going on, he found them both.
Kamaka did not disturb them, but
ran back to his own house and secured
his shotgun, a double barrel twelve
bore. He returned to the spot where
he had found the couple, but AXE was
gone. Mele was lying on the ground
He believed her to be shamming drunk
enness, but uncertain whether she was
or was not really so, he crouched IN
the bushes and waited, believing that
AXE would come back when the husband
failed to put in an appearance.
His guess proved to be correct, fol
in a few minutes AXE again approached
1t was light enough to see plainly, anc
Kamaka stood up and called to him
= AXE halted moment, and Kamaka tolc
him to stay where he was; that he haC
a gun and would shoot him if he came
, nearer.
The other paid no attention, and Ka
Imaka warned him five or six times, say
ing that he did not want to kill him
| Afraid that the man carried rocl
which he intended to use, K9maki
| raised his gun and once more warned
him to stay away.
AXE came within thirty feet of tn,
, half-mad husband, who pointed TIN
t weapon at Axes legs and fired, bu
the recoil threw the muzzle up and tn
, entire charge entered the trunk o
Axes body.
7 When Kamaka had first shouted tina
2 he had a gun, his wife jumped iron
the ground where she had been sham
0 ming drunkenness and pleaded wit
him TO spare the others life. Whe
AXE dropped, Kamaka's brother-in-la'
a Jumped for the murderer, but the latte
t was too quick for him and raised hi
g weapon the Second time.
: "Don I come nearer, brother,' h
: called, cor II shoot you.
But no attention was paid to thi
u order and the men closed. The othe
: got the gun away from Kamaka an
o with the weapon once out of his hands
the latter stopped struggling III
znelt down beside his victim and plaC
ed his ear over his heart. The vita
| organ beat family several times an
: then stopped, Kamaka got up and sal
the man was dead and his brother-ir
s law turned and went away. Furthe
$ down the road he broke the gun owe
+ a rock, The twisted barrels being take
j. back TO the city last night by tn
s officers as evidence.
r Mele Hanamaikai, the wife, fun
herself down beside the dead body O
+ her husband 3 victim and Began TO wa
!. IN Hawaiian fashion for her dead love
I. From lamentation she turned TO curse
!. and heaped viifeation on the man sh
7 had betrayed.
Her frenzy goadei Kamaka 20 mae
Is ness and be pulled her into a sittin
4 position.
g "Onr time has come he said
s, Hawaiian, ~ will kin you aud mysel
o and the three OF ne VIII die together.
k lie whipped out common TX
a poeketkaife, sharpened until iis eda
y vas fner than a razoT b. and with on
n cash almost seVerfd the w0map's hea
from her body, A. she dropped b.
NJ side the other corpse, ihe others WI
4 bad WITNESSED both tragedies sprau
n upon che murderer and attempted
"A throw him down.