The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-07-25
PASS RECIPROCITY
BILL UNAMENDED
WOMAN COULDN'T
THROW GUN AWAY
NOW SUSPICION RESTS ON HUB.
BAND IN GRAVE Az
FAIR.
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HILO, July sl.--1t Is we'll known
fact that women cannot throw. For
this reason the Maulua shooting case,
which has from the very start been a
rather mysterious one, has now become
a mystery of the first class
Kulanakila, the Hawaiian who was
arrested on charge of having shot a
Japanese in the course Of gambling
raid, is still awaiting trial on charge
of manslaughter, but the authorities
are now digging further into the case
and state that they should not be
much surprised to find that they must
bring charge against another raider
instead.
The mystery hinges to n very large
extent on the revolver with which the
shooting was done. After the shooting
the gun disappeared, and for while
all attempts TO find it were fruitless.
Kulanakila insisted that he had no gun
at the time the shot was fred. A
short time after that Officer Konia,
who conducted the raid, sent Kulana-
lSila TO telephone to the deput sheriff
and to the doctor, and as he started
for the phone, said the Hawaiian, Bo-
teilho, another raider, gave him re-
voiver, telling him to take it to Mrs.
Boteilho, which Kulanakila did.
According to the prosecuting officers,
Mrs. Boteilho admitted that she had
received the gun from Kulanakila dur
ing an early hour of the morning. She
added that she had been frightened
because the Hawaiian had told her that
things had gone wrong. She had there
fore thrown the gun over the bluff and
into the ocean. 1t was in very deep
place, she added, and could never be
recovered. So for the time being the
gun passed out of the drama.
Denied the Gun.
The same weapon figured short time
afterwards before the grand jury, when
Botelho was asked about the missing
weapon. He told the inquisition that
he had no revolver, and that he had
owned no such weapon during the past
six years. This statement was made in
answer to questions as to whether he
had handed a gun to Kulanakila at the
time of the shooting.
The arrest of Boteilho on n charge
of perjury followed, and the case was
tried before Judge Parsons this week
Foreman NOR and Clerk Lewis of the
grand jury gave testimony in regard
| to the statements made by Boteilhu
when he appeared before the inquisitors
A number of friends of the defendant
gave evidence that he had owned gun
which they described, and which they
of last Wednesday, finally returning q
session until within a few months OF
the date of the killing.
The defense offered no evidence. and
the jury retired early in the morning
verdict of guilty. Boteilho was sentenced
the following day to imprisonment fol
not less than one year
Gun Turned Up
But in the mean time the missing
revolver turned up 1t appears that
when Mrs. Boteilho tried to throw the
weapon over the bluff and into the sea
she did not succeed, and the gun lodged
in some brush. Here it was found a
few days later, and it is now in the
possession of the authorities. The gun
is n cheap 32-caliber affair. The bullet
which was taken from the body of the
dead man, is of the same caliber, and
all the facts mentioned have set the
authorities thinking hard, suggesting to
them the possibility that Kulanakila
was not the man who did the shooting
after all, although, as against this view,
they have the evidence of several of
the Japanese who were present at the
time of the shooting, and who say that
they saw a gun in Kulauakila's hand
| Immediately after the firing of the fatal