The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-09
WILD NIGHT or
BLOODY HORRORS
Victims Of Raylnp Maniac Saved
by Police as Fiend Hacks
at Swathed Bodies.
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CFrom Wednesdays Advortissrl
Seven hours of mortal terror. knccl
ing in low. foul room in King
street tenement, "a raving maniac Glib.
bering over them with a cane knife in
his hands and murder in his heart, three
Cinnamon yesterday morning missed q
horrible death by the thin margin OF
a bed quilt. The hours Of terror fol.
lowed by the few minutes of furious
fighting would shame the greatest fg
ment of the fctionist, the cold corpse
of the central figure of the tragedy
being now the sole memento of the
bloody drama enacted in the midst Of
the city = busiest life.
Monday afternoon ten Chinaman
reached town from Waialua with Kun
Pung, a laborer on a rice plantation
at Mokuleia. He was sick and subject
to fits of insanity, and his society was
taking steps TO have him placed in a
home or hospital.
The company went to the tenement
opposite Liliha street on the makai side
of King street, Eva of the entrance
to the Palama Settlement. The land
lord had but one room available,
dirty, rubbish. piled underground hole
in the makai-cOrner of the tenement
and the ten men and their patient ar
ranged themselves here for the night.
In the evening the sick man curled
himself in his bunk and went peacefully
to sleep while his companions and
guards arranged themselves about him
and slept also.
There were three doors to the place.
bo rain
soaked empty lot makai, about four
feet or less high and the same wide.
Two Others opened into other rooms
Waikiki and were but the width of one
board cut and hinged as afterthoughts.
At three o'clock in the morning, with
the rain beating down about the walls,
the maniac rose cautiously from his
bunk and secured a heavy cane knife
and another knife such as the Chinese
use to cut fish with.
Armed with these he awakened his
companions. There was a hanging lamp
in the middle of the room, over the
only clear space which measured not
more than four by four feet and FIVE
to the edge of the rafters. In this
space and in the light of this lamp,
Kun Pung planted himself and his
bloodshot ewes, and madly working face
was the first thing that impressed
themselves on the minds of his guards.
There was wild scream and the
whole company sprung for the door.
Kun Pung sprung after them and cor.
nered three, among them his own blood
brother. He slammed the door to and
: wheeled around to meet the three whom
he had trapped. But they were scared
beyond the fighting point and trembling
: and begging for mercy they ran back
to the pile of clothes which took up
most of the room.
The maniac deliberately made them
kneel on the floor in the little cleared
= spaee in the middle of the room and
9 putting their hands behind their backs,
thrust their heads forward IN the same
! position in which condemned Chinese
criminals are forced. Two of them
!. kneeled before him and his brother was
! forced into the same position on the
bunk to his right.
eff any one makes noise, or moves
or calls for the police" he told them,
"'I will cut off the heads of these
men,
Then he deliberately set about ar.
ranging the room. The door to the
opening outside he barricaded with
boxes and bottles and whatever he
could lay his hands on and bolted the
; other doors Then he hung up blanket
! ! in front of a small screen, one by
one foot, which was the only window
the room boasted. All this time he kept
his eyes on his prisoners, stepping
: quickly over to them at the least move
His arrangements made to his salts
d faction he stood over his men and talk
ed to them all night, with his murder
$ GUS weapon poised for blow at the
! first move.
"Dont put your foot out. It's your
head 1 want to cut Off Don't worry
3 IN do good job. III cut your heads
5 off sure"
The whole patter was repeated after
d wards to Chinese Officer c. Apana. Thi
y continued up to ten clock in the morn
}, ing, the Chinese outside, crazy will
fear, trying to meet with their orienta
y methods the oriental situation whicl
i had arisen. Not once did the though
cross their minds to send for the polio,
e and ii was ten clock in the forenoon
y I before several men came to the sheriff
u and said that there was crazy maj
with knife in the tenement.
9 All this time, with the street cars
g hacks and autos changing outside, witt
II customers trading in the store abov
e their heads, the three imprisoned mel
: kneeled before IN maniac and his knife
d the room lighted dimly by the turned
u down lamp,
n The sheriff sent Chief McDufie an
his boys down 10 investigate withou
an idea Of what had been really haI
:. pening a few blocks from police heaC
quarters. McDune quickly aequainte
ID himself with the facts and was stal
a gered for a moment by the problem tha
presented itself. He telephond for Del
q uiy Rose and oven eontemplatd eallin
10 for the fire department. He would hag
al done the latter II be had found o sing
"a. opening whore "a hose could be trnine
b. on tho would be- murderer standing sen
IA. ify over the three tortured men
., lie did NOT dare break In for fe'
III that the man would carry oui his te
M rihle threat and behead bis victims
a. thf hut n0Ite. Rose arrived nt
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