The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-25
WIFE MURDERER
ESCAPES GALLONS
Pleads Guilty to Lesser Crime
and Gets Life at Hard
Labor.

Life Imprisonment was yesterday the
sentence for a wife-slayer in Judge
Cooper's circuit court.
Last June. it was the tenth day, Ben
kauna shot and killed his wife.
George Davis was appointed to defend
the woman murderer and was prepared
to put I'D an argument of insanity and
drunkenness. Davis was ready to
show that there was insanity IN the
family: that sister was IN the asylum
and that another sister was out OF her
right mind. Also Davis was prepared
to show that the wife, a woman with
whom Kaluna lived many years out
Kaluna that he was suffering with
leprosv and that the fear Of having
this disease had much to do with the
state Of mind in which Kaluna was
when he sent the fatal bullet into the
body Of Julia, his love.
BY pleading guilty to murder in the
second degree, Kaluna possibly saved
his neck from the gallows. As it is,
he is sentenced to imprisonment for
life at hard labor.
On Both Sides.
T. Miner Harrison appears to be on
both sides of a divorce case. Yester-
day he fled complaint in behalf of
X. Goto against his wife. and little
later an answer was filed which APP
parently emanated from the same office.
Desertion IS alleged.
Federal Income Tax.
As the first year result Of the new
federal income tax law, the United
States received s124,201ls Liquor re
ceipts in the internal revenue depart
ment were. for the fiscal year. about
what they have usually been, there be-
ing no material advance. There is
shown considerable difference in to-
bacco and cigar taxes, due to the i'm.
portation of Manila cigars under the
new tariff law.
Castle Gets $500.
United States Judge Dole Yesterday
signed decree in condemnation pro
ceedings involving the site for the fed
eral pumping plant on the kapahulu
road suit being against W. Z. Castle
ct al. Eight hundred dollars is awarded
Castle for the property, the case as
against the other defendants going by
default.
Not Entitled to Relief.
Circuit Judge Cooper yesterday dis
missed the restraining order in Len
Choy VS.. Goo Chong, King street flower
garden dispute. Choy sued for perform.
ance of contract Of sale and secured an
order to restrain defendant from inter
fering with the business. Judge Cooper
| does not think the plaintiff is entitled
to the relief prayed for.
J. K. Sumner Again.
By his attorneys, E. NJ Watson and
W. W. Thayer, John K. Sumner yester.
! day morning asked an order to issue to
| A. V. Gear, as trustee, to render an ac-
counting from November Of last year
10 date. The estate used to be worth
abot $4,000
| Doubt as to Will.
| Henry Smith, as master, suggests the
! appointment of a trustee in the matter
| of the estate of Carl II. A. Ahlborn, be.
| lieving that the will indicates an inten.
| ton to have the estate in trust, mas
much as there is a sentence in the will
| which declares that the estate shall be
free of any control by any possible fu
ture husband of his widow. The widow
and children are in Germany.
Federals Are Flyers.
After a flying trip, having left here
on Tuesday, United States Marshal
Hendry and United States District At
torney Breckons yesterday morning re
turned from Maui in the S. s. CIaudine
chasing a Chinese alleged to be the
manufacturer and circulator of phoney
tendollar gold pieces. The defendant
Lee Kong, is in custody in Waikiki
and will be brought to Honolulu tc
stand trial, for Breckons and Hendry
expect to leave again for Maui on Fri
day. Lee Kong is suspected of being a
slick counterfeiter, and he was placed
under arrest on federal advice. 1t is
said that his plant is at Hama.
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