The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-07-18
.KAHURU MURDER
. MYSTERY SOLVED?
POLICE COME TO END or
HARD MONTH or WORK
ON PLANTATION
1rrom salardayia Advertlrsr.,

(From Saturdays Advcrtiser)
Returning last night after m al
day trip over the ''oiher side" sheriff
jarrett placed on the police records
what is believed 10 be ths solution to
the Kahuku murder mystery, which
centered around Korean laborer
found dead on the floor Of has house,
about month ago.
Since that time the special staif has
been steadily az work on the case un.
der the orders Of the Sheriff and Chief
McDufie, and the latter has personally
directed the work which has been car.
ried on without leaving the Kahuku
plantation. The man ARRESTED by the
Sheriff yesterday is another Korean
named Yee Nun JOng and as he was
already known to be the last man who
saw his murdered fellow-countryman
alive there is added weight TO what
McDufiie's officers have learned.
When the police took 1p the case,
(Sherin Jarrett himself being at Wal.
aha when it was first reported) it look.
ed pretty bare of any clue. There was
only one article about the house which
suggested the previous presence Of an
other and with this clue the police dog
tracked the man down, but it proved
to be the wrong party. The doctors
were uncertain themselves whether
death had been the result of foul
play and it was not until after ths
autopsy that they had discovered that
the man had been killed by terrific
blow that had stove in a number Of
his ribs and cut him terribly internally.
Only Suspicion.
The Korean who was arrested last
night was examined at that time, as
he was known to have been drinking
with the victim the night before the
dead body was discovered, but while
suspicion, naturally, attached itself to
him there was not the slightest fOunda-
tion for an arrest.
McDuffie consequently set two of his
officers, Very and Alcazar, to work in
the plantation gangs as regular labor
ers with instructions to pick up the
odds and ends of conversation about
the camp.
The laborers became suspicious of
Very, the Porto Rican officer, and he
finally had to be withdrawn but Alca
zar, Filipino, who was formerly Of
ficial interpreter for the Manila board
of health, kept ON at his work and al
though suspicion was directed at him
he "lived it down"
He went about his work nnconcern-
edly and finally after The excitement
of the affair and the consequent hesit-
aucy of speech was over he heard what
he was sent down TO hear, namely, two
Fihpinos taking over what they had
seen at the time the Korean was muir
dered
There was and is no reason why they
could not have told the police at first,
but in spite of that it is possible that
they were among those who were ques-
toned ON the day and who denied
knowledge Of the deed, except that
Yee Nun Jong had been the last to be
with him,
What They Saw.
The Filipinos, in the hearing of Al
cazar, and yesterday to the sheriff
when they were taxed with it, admit
ted that they had seen Yee Nun Jong
! ana Ine u1JeEWdLus hhuluViSu i"A oA
the porch of the latter's house. He
was drank, and while Jee might have
been also he was not altogether So
The other was staggering drunkenly
about and doubtless reviling his com
panion, but while there is no testimony
regarding that part of it, the witnesses
state that Jee suddenly pushed him,
causing him to fall over the edge OF
the lanai, which is some distance from
the ground.
Jee then stepped down, picked his
victim up, carried him into the house
laid him on the hoOr and left him
Struggling alone on the floor, the man
died.
The Filipino witnesses will be brought
to town Monday and if they stick tc
their statements at all, Jee Nun Jong