The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-03-28
IMPULSE LEADS
Man TO MURDER
JAPANESE KILLS MISTRESS WITH
RAzoR-HAB CONFESSED
ORIh1R.

The details Of ono more brutal muir.
der Of a japanese woman under condi.
lions similar to those which have
marked the past few tragedies are now
on the police records ss the result Of
the Investigations Of Sheriff jarrett,
Chief McDuaie and Deputy sheriff Fer.
nandez Of Eva yesterday which cul-
minated in the arrest of Kobayashi
sunigero.
Kobayashi murdered Japanese
woman named Kama oltinaga at the
peninsular residence of the Rev. Mr..
Erdman between seven and eight
clock Sunday evening the mutilated
body being found several hours later
and the crime reported to Deputy Fer
nandez. At one o'clock yesterday
morning an officer from police head
quarters reused Chief McDufie, who
| had just turned in for the night, with
message that he was wanted at Pearl
City on a murder case.
The murderer was tracked down in
rapid time by the Honolulu officers,
land was discovered hiding on the beach
Iby McDulie at three o. CLOCK yesterday
afternoon after chase that had ex-
TENDED from the city to Wahiawa.
Kobayashi has confessed to the kill
ing and merely advanced as his reasons
a quarrel which had sprung up suddenly
I between himself and the woman. There
lare gruesomely dramatic details tn the
crime which have lifted II beyond the
numerous sordid murders which have
shocked the community ON previous oc-
casion, particular weirdness being
lent to the present case by the person
atty Of the chief actor.
Kobayashi is almost a dwarf and is
NOTED for his small size all over the
island. His mind is as apparently mis-
lshaped as his body and has led him
lin turn TO the prison and to the insane
Iasylum from which institution he has
lust been reIeased-and may now lead
him to the gallows.
When the chief reached Pearl City,
about two o clock yesterday morning,
Ihe met Fernandez on his way to Aiea
with Japanese suspect in his custody.
1.-The man whom the deputy had arrested
had been at the woman's house early
lin the afternoon, as it afterwards turned
out, with a letter from her relatives in
Japan Her husband left for his own
country but a month ago.
The chief continued on to the PENN
sula, where he inspected the scene of
the crime and put together such details
of it as he could gather from the un-
disturbed articles of furniture in the
room and the body of the murdered
woman. A deep cash which exposed
the bones of all four fingers of one
hand, and the end of another finger
taken off, showed that she had made
short but desperate battle for her
/ life.
The fatal wound was a deep cash in
her throat, which severed the windpipe
and arteries. The clothes of her muir
! derer were still in the room, and it was
! apparent that he had ft the place in
little more than his SHIT, an act which
strengthened the chief in his suspicion
that former inmate of the asylum had
, done the work.
After getting an imperfect descrip.
, ton of the man, McDuffie called up the
insane asylum, about four O'Clock in
the morning, and learned from Super
0 intendent Peterson that a man named
. Kobayashi had been discharged only
last Friday. The doctor gave the off
GERS a good description, and dwelt witt
e especial emphasis on the fact that hii
Y hands were smaller than woman Is and
q noticeable anywhere.
After getting what further details he
could, the chief returned to the city u
I attend the morning session of the police
f court, where he had several cases on
and afterwards returned to Eva will
> Sheriff Jarrett and Officers Kamauohi
J and Bergau, the latter as Japanese in
o terpreter.
Is The Honolulu officers went first Z,
+, Wahiawa, former residence of tn,
wanted man, then returned to the har
Dor, where, assisted by Fernandez, I
y careful search was commenced. The,
had progressed about q quarter Of
mile beyond the house where the as
sault was made when McDuffie, who wa
little in advance Of the party, jumpe,
on the gunwale Of one of two larg
,, sampans drawn up on the beach. jar
= rett and the two officers Of the specia
. staff were further back, while Fernar
g. dez was qnartdring the ground abov'
{, MeDufiie east a casual glance akoun
the boats, and suddenly saw remark
ably small hand being drawn slowly /
from a pile OF canvas at the bottom O
m the second boat. The chief thought o
s. what Peterson had told him, jumpe
- quickly from one boat to the othe
directly on top of the hidden MAJ
o. After short scrimmage the chic
" caught the other by bis wrists, an
III pulling him out saw first the man
=. shirt, soaked In blood.
The Japanese Is now being held {
~ The police station for investigation
II. laWnitiuq a charge