The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-07
WILD NIGHT Of
BLOODY HORRORS
Victims of Raving Maniac Saved
by Police as Fiend Hacks
at SWathed Bodies.

street tenement, a raving maniac glib
berlng over them with a cane knife in
his hands and murder in his heart. three
Chinamen yesterday morning missed a
horrible death by the thin margin Of
bed quilt. The hours of terror fol
lowed by the few minutes of furious
fighting would shame the greatest fl,
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 5 busiest life.
Monday afternoon ten Chinaman
Pung, a iaborer on rice plantation
at Mokuleia. He was sick and subject
to fits of insanity, and his society was
taking steps to have him placed in
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, a
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
ana slept also.
There were three doors to the place.
One opened directly INTO the 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 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 hanging lamp
in the middle of the room, over the
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 eyes, and madly working face
was the first thing that impressed
themselves on the minds of his guards.
There was a wild scream and the
whole company sprung for the door.
Kun Pung sprung after them and corr
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 or the floor in the little cleared
space in the middle of the room and
putting their hands behind their lacks,
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.
of any one makes a noise, or moves
or calls for the police, he told them,
Il will cut oft 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 Law his hands ON and bolted the
other doors Then he hung up blanket
in front of a small screen, one by