The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-07-15
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Sheriff Pua Expresses Suspicion
That Fiendish Attempt to Blow
Up Deputy Sheriff Simmons
and Wife Was Work of Road
Supervisor Nahakuelua, Under
Arrest on Graft Charge.
(MaH Special to The Advertiser.)

(Mail Special to The AdvertiSer)
HlLO, July l3.-llas the Hawaii !
graft situation reached the stage where
the lives of those who assist in the in.
vestigation are no longer safe4
The police believe that this is ,the
ease. Last saturday morning the house
of Deputy Sheriff Simmons of North
lilo was partly destroyed by an explo,
sion of giant powder. There is plenty
of evidence 10 show that the explosion
was the result of an attempt TO kill
Simmons. The police believe that the
fact that Simmons had given certain
information to Expert GOoding Field
and Prosecutor Breckons, Rrelative TO
the North Hilo graft situation, led one
of those interested in having the dis
closures stopped, to make an attempt
on Simmons life.
Both Sheriff Pua and Simmons him.
self state that they suspect NahalSue
lua, the road supervisor for North Hilo,
who was arrested last Saturday on a
charge of having falsely certified to
certain road claim. They base their
suspicion on several circumstances, and
expect to gather more evidence. In
the meantime their case is not n com
plcte one by any means, and it is quite
possible that Nahulluelua is an innocent
man and that the suspicion which rests
on him is unjust.
Simmons Named on Warrant.
The warrant against Nahakuelua
was issued last Friday afternoon. 1t
bore ON 1T the names of various wit.
nesses, the first in this list being that
of Deputy Sheriff Simmons. That same
afternoon Deputy Sheriff Martin tele.
phoned to Simmons that he was send
ing out TO him a warrant for service,
and that Simmons himself would be n
witness. The telephone service in the
outside districts is VIGOROUSLY con-
veyor of public gossip, ana it is more
than likely that the man who was to
be arrested knew about it as soon as
any one, as well as the fact that SIM
mons was to be n main witness. AS a
matter of fact, the part which Sim
mons had taken in assisting Gooding
Field is well known. M
Simmons lives in fOur.rOOm house
on one of the Kihalani homesteads
about half mile mauka of the Pa
InUlon village. He states that ut 4.07
G'colck Saturday morning he was
awakened by the noise and shock of
an explosion. He was at the time sleep
lag with his wife in a room facing
GauEa.
Effects OF Explosion.
When ! awoke | did not at first
know what had happened. had been
reading that evening, and had left the
lamp, with the wick turned down so
as to make the light small, standing on
chair by the head of the bed, but
when / awoke the light had been ex-
tinguished,' said Simmons today.
"When ] awoke the mosquito net
as well rs a wooden support which had
held it up had fallen on the bed, over
my wife and myself. There was also
a lot of broken glass and broken wood
on the bed, but neither | nor my wife
had received scratch.
1--WE Are Make"
81 saw some light in the corner, and
discovered that some of the wall had
been torn away. Then / realized what
had happened. ] told my wife, 'W,
are make. and we both ran into tn,
parlor, which is makai of our bedroom
then went back for my reyolvers
and called for my neighbors who liv,
about seventy-fve feet away. Thel
said they had felt the effects of thu
explosion in their house, as a lot OF
dishes had fallen down. Later on plan
tation employees at Papaaloa and ever
men at Laupahoehoe informed me tina
they had heard the explosion.
"The big clock which | have in tn
house had stopped at 4;07 clock, AM
by this / fix the time. 1t correspond
with the time given by those who hear,
the explosion.
Footprints of Thug.
"Manupi Paul, who lives near me
tells me that he started for plantation
headquarters Tor his orders, leaving hi
own house little before four O'Clock
lie was halfway down TO Papaalo
when he heard the explosion. He wen
on to Papaaloa. Then he returne
hope,.., lie. noticed fresh tracks of i
horse. on the Kihalani road. leadln
makai. There is ditch Just below IN
house.. and there were prints of tn
shoes of man, who had left the ira
and made a shortcut, to my house
cross the freshly plowed field. wher
the tracks were easy to see. l am sur
there were no footprints in the feel
before. as we all walk along the patti
The prints were such that they ind
Gated that the person who left theI
had been running. The toe impressio
was deeper than that of the heel, an
the steps we're very long.
''Panl 'old I"e about this, and
measured the prints of both horse an
man. | did so very carefully, and
h""" rept tn" record. A few hours a
ter the explosion Mr. MARCEL, I'll
school teacher. came along He mea
med these prints, independent of M
and we found that our notes tailed ei
aetly. tttl
Nahakuelua Abroad.
Fright after the explosion sci
for my officers. One of these, Manu-
Cadinha. came from Waikaumalo. i
told me that when he missed the Koni