The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-26
RUNS AMUCk ON
WEDDING EVE
tFrom Mondays Advertiser.)

(FrOm Mondays Advertlser.)
Spending the night that should have
been his wedding night on a prison
cot at the Waipahu Jail, n half-Japa.
nese, whose name appears on police
records as "Charlie," is awaiting the
word that he is the murderer of Hanae,
an aged Hawaiian. Hanae with n
slas in his right breast six or seven
inches long, is dying at the Queen s
Hospital. He was Still alive last night,
but the hospital authorities expressed
little hope that he would live until
morning.
Saturday evening at nine o clock a
carousal was drawing to drunken end
in the home of Hanae in the Waiawa
Gulch, near Waipahu. Charlie, half
Japanese and half Hawaiian. was the
"gucst of honor,n in recognition of
his coming marriage with Hawaiian
girl, relative of the host. The mar.
rage was to have taken place yCster.
day.
Drunken Fight Says Assailant.
Neither Hanae, in what may be his
ante -mOrtem statement to Sergeant Dan
Kamahu at the hospital yesterday, nor
his assailant in the Waipahu Jail has
given any satisfactory reason for the
row which broke up the luau. Hanae
told the sergeant that he had no idea
of the cause of it; Charlie will say
nothing except that it was drunken
fight, according to Deputy Sheriff Fer.
nandez of EVA.
In spite of the fact that the stab.
bing occurred at nine O'Clock Satur-
day night, it was fully one 'clock
yesterday morning when Hanae reached
the Waipahu hospital and the deputy
sheriff was notified. At the hospital,
Hanae was found to be almost pulse.
less and for few minutes he was be.
lieved to he already dead.
After working over him all night,
however the physicians managed to re-
store him so much that when local
police headquarters sent the ambulance
down yesterday morning he was strong
enough to stand the rough trip to the
city. He arrived mt the Queen IS Hos
pital at nine clock yesterday morn
ing in charge of Captain Nelson of
the second watch. Four hours later the
hospital officials warned the police that
the man was sinking rapidly and that
1t was possibly the last chance they
would have to obtain statement from
him.
Boy Also Wounded.
Deputy Sheriff Fernandez set out for
the gulch at once upon hearing the re-
port OF the attempted murder lie went
to iianae S house, where he learned the
particulars of the fight and found an.
other victim, Willie Miller. a Hawaiiln
hoy thirteen years of age He was
suffering from a nasty cut in the back, g,
which, however, is not likely to prove
serious.
From the story told to Fernandez, it
appears that the row commenced nm.
expectedly, Charlie drawing a butcher
knife with apparently no rrovocation.
lie and Hanae struggled for a few min
utes, but the old man was unable to
stand mp against his antagonist. who
made downward stroke at his heart
and cut his right breast open. During
the tight the Miller boy rushed in be
tween them, thinking that he could
push them apart, and as Hanac fe'I he
turned and ran away. Charlie made n
his back.
Fernandez followed Charlie through
several settlements. finding him h ding
m TIE house of friend. three or fonr
miles away, at three clock Yesterday
morning