The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-02

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The victim. Ias invited thoy outside.
ana o. they started Tor the door t.ee
opened .lo knife AMI on ffachina the
street be suddenly threw ont hia arm
and mode q swift strike across Chov ~
Z abdomen. The planned cut failed. for
The knife plunged through Choy =
clothing and into the abdomen iust be-
low the navel. the blade huryinR itself
| deep and opening the walls Of the ab.
domon. The wound was n terrible one.
hut not the kind Lee hoped TO inlet.
Ch0y Immediately ran away, holding
his hands over the wound,
Would Have Surrendered.
Had Choy fallen to the pavement and
bled TO death on the spot, Lee said he
/ would have stood there and waited for
the officers Of the law TO come and ar.
rest him. He would not have made any
attempt TO get away, because he would
have accomplished his dark purpose and
would have been gratifed.
| However, Choy ran away and after
watching him, Lee decided TO follow
him up. Choy ran into John Wise and
asked him to help him. John saw the
man was wounded, owing to the flow
of the blood which trickled through
the man g fingers. Wise asked how he
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been stabbed, and, turning about, point
ed to Lee, who was approaching, and
identified him as his assailant. When
Lee came near Wise saw he had one
hand in his pocket. When close up
Wise grabbed his hand and called upon
Philip Freitas, who. was nearby, to hold
the other. They asked him if he
stabbed Choy, and he replied, eyes;
] stab him. He added "No pilikia
If / go calaboose." He then handed
Wise a knife Of the XCI4NT make, with
which he said he did the cutting.
Wise and Freitas then started to look
for a policeman. They wandered all
over Chinatown without finding one.
Choy had a police whistle, which Wise
blew, but no officer responded. Finally
Wise saw the Chinese detective. and
after some talk persuaded the Chinese
to take the prisoner and victim off his
hands.
For Sake Of the Emperor.
Lees attempt at murder was done in
the interest of the deposed Emperor of
Korea, as he stated TO the officers last
night. All the Koreans were verv much
aggrieved at the loss of their national
independence, and Choy's treacherv
made them exceedingly angry. Lee
came from Kauai on Tuesday. and inn
mediately entered into the spirit pre-.
vailing here. He felt that Choy should
not live, and bought a knife. He en-
deavored to make up his mind as to
Just when he should kill Choy, but he
intended that Choy should not escape.
He felt that he was a menace to the
peace and interests of the Koreans in
Hawaii.
Sorry He's Not Dead.
Lee expressed regret that Choy did
not die, and as reason for so express
ing himself said that if he (Choy) did
not die. then he (Lee) would be in
considerable pilikia, first of all because
he made bad job of the attempt. and
If Choy lived, Lee would probably have
to go to Jail, which was a situation he
did not wish to be a party to. But if
Choy died, then if he had to die he
would lie content and ready to die also,
as this would even things up. This
novel reasoning caused the officers to
sit up and take notice.
Lee said that delegates from all sec.
tions of every island where Koreans
are employed on the sugar plantations
are coming into Honolulu this week to
attend various conferences which are
| planned and at which they are expected
to draft resolutions with respect to
their objection to the annexation of
Korea. He was the delegate from
Kealia, Kauai.
Hates the Japanese.
Lee hates the Japanese. When he
was being booked at the police station
yesterday afternoon, his name was not
caught correctly by those standing
about. A Japanese newspaper reporter
asked Lee to write out his name. Lee
wrote out "Lee Song" and then stop
ped and asked the scribe if he were a
Chinaman, and receiving a negative
reply, asked if he was japanese. The
reporter said "Yes,'' whereupon the
Korean thrust the paper and pencil
aside and a look of intense hatred
overspread his face.
Lee is not an insane man, but like
many Koreans who believe they have
q wrong to avenge, he has deliberately
settled upon all plans of procedure as
to getting rid of ChOy, and calmly pro.
ceeded to carry them out.
In his effects taken from his pockets
at the station, were several blank
sheets of letter paper with the heading
in Korean, "EpwOrth League in Ha.
waii. +" Rev. Mr.. Ming of the Korean
Mission does not know Lee as a mem
Der of the league, and says, also, that
these sheets are obtainable by most
Koreans.