The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-31
JAPANESE HACKS
WOMAN TO PIECES
CHASTITY Murder Committed on
Premises Of Doctor Baldwin's
Residence.
IRON saturday's Advertiserl

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Valley, when Kehio Fukamoto stabbed
and killed Masu Yoshida.
Although horribly wounded himself,
Through self-inhicted Reinforcement,
he is still alive and is said to have an
even chance to recover. The woman
/ died some time before noon. An au-
topsy was held in the afternoon
Fikamoto made q confession to Chief
McDuffie late yesterday afternoon, in
which he admitted his generalization,
I but his only emotion was satisfaction
that he had committed the crime as
well MS he did.
At half-past nine yesterday morning,
when Masu was in the laundry of the
Baldwin home, where she was employed,
Kehio came in behind her, and with no
warning, according to his own confess
sion, struck at her with n razor-edged
cane knife which he carried.
Kill Her Anyway.
The woman screamed, and turning
rushed for safety, with the man after
her. AS she ran he called to her that
she need not run; he would catch her
and kill her anyway. About one hun
dred feet from the laundry, on the path
beside the house, he overlook her and
brought her down with terrible blow
of the cane knife, which crashed
| through the side of her jaw, almost
severing one side of it.
lie then commenced to stab her with
a dagger which he also carried, and
mutilated her frightfully, Over thirty
wounds, all of them CHASTITY, were after
wards counted on her body. None of
them in themselves would have been
fatal, the woman bleeding to death.
She was stabbed several times about
the abdomen, her right arm hacked to
the bone, showing gaping wounds in
three places, the calf of her left leg
cut from top to bottom with a stroke
of the cleaver, and her arms and hands
cut to ribbons with the dagger.
Tardy Assistance.
Her screams attracted several Japa.
nese yardboys who were working on the
edge of the property, and they ran to
the spot, but as they came to the crest
of the hill Kehio saw them, and
brandishing his cane knife at them
threatened to kill them if they came
nearer. They made no effort to assist
the woman after that. The Chinese
cook was the first on the scene, run.
ming from the kitchen, near where the
woman fell, but quickly retired when
he saw what was going on.
Kehio, who was dressed in the or.
binary clothes of laborer, with shirt
and overalls, then ripped himself from
side to side of the abdomen with the
dagger and fell beside his victim Ever
after he dropped he was still obsesset
with the idea of murder, and reaching
over seized the woman by the hair an(
! tried to drag her nearer to finish hii
CHASTITY work. A part of her scalp wal
torn off.
Doctor Baldwin arrived on the scene
shortly afterwards, and while he was
waiting for Chief McDufie, who wa,
hastily called, did what he could tc
her to a grass plot in front of the
bandaged her up about the face and
neck where the most apparent wounds
were.
Rushed to Hospital.
She was mass of blood and the rea
extent of her wounds could not b.
learned until long afterwards. TIL
chief and Sergeant Kellett arrived il
Manuel Reis' automobile soon after
wards and after a hasty survey of TIN
ground, the woman was bundled up il
! blankets and placed in the rear sea
while the man was put on the floor o
the tonneau. The machine was thei
rushed to the hospital as fast as gasO
line could take it.
On the operating table the maj
merely laughed at the surgeons as the.
sewed together his gaping wounds. s.
terribly did he cut himself that hi
stomach itself was opened and hung Oh
of him. Despite this he wanted foo,
Y last night.
a A fash of whiskey was found in tn
man 8 rear pocket and a quantity o
: other liquor was found in his room a
3 the corner of Artesian and Beretani
y streets. He was caretaker of the MI
!, noa tennis courts. He carried Goa
II even as he ran after his victim for
~ was found 4ying beside him.
ID A Former Employe.
y He was formerly employed by DoctC
TT Baldwin, but was discharged some tin
G. ago with the threat that if he ever r
al turned the police would be called 70
20 At that time it was not known no
urgently the police would be require
g. when next he appeared on the premise
is The woman S right name was n,
I'd learned until her room on Mauna Ii
i'd street opposite the Asahi Theater WI
r searched and her certificate was fonn
ne She was formerly known as Mase Y
to mamoto.
x She has a son, twenty-one years
he age, and his story coupled with Fuk
moto's confession, piece together ii
I'd cause Of the crime. II seems that +
d. kumoto and the woman had been ma
", ried for two years, the woman bell
To- thirty.three years old. Some Il
m months ago she gave him up on aecou
He OF his drinking and gambling habi
or Since that time he has been attompti
CO. TO get her 20 return TO him.
bis lie demanded ninety dollars from d
but she refused 20 pay IL aud for I
past few nights has been living 40 N
si iii instead OF at her own roo
he through fear OF him
Her room WAS the neatest room