The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-05-06
WOMAN KILLED IN
TROUBLE Rood'
(From Monday Advertiser)


"shoot mo, shoot n,ei' screamed a
woman 5 voice from The Mutual Tclc-
phone Company's building, Adams lane,
Mt haf-pnst eight last night
Then n shot ring out. Imme lately.
afterwards, from an upstairs window,
a man called TO passershy 20 send for
the police because he had just killed
his wife. rFfN
Harassej, naggci and badgtred, he
declared. until driven to desperation,
Frank Whalcy, night "trouble man
ut the telephone office, accepted his
wifcs challenge and iired q steel bul
let from a magazine tevolvcr into her
brain. The bullet entered the head at
the corner of the left eye and emerged
from the back of the skull, falling TO
the floor. where il WIS efpund by q
police officer. ban tifsF tE
Two soldiers heard the shot and the
call of the man to bring the police.
They hasteued upstairs, where they
found Whaloy, revolver in hand. Be
Find him was stretched the form Of a
woman, lying in n thickcning stream of
blood. The body was wedged between
the back of the "trouble y desk and
the WALL the head and shoulders ex-
tending in front of the door which sepa.
rated the stairs from the room in which
center all the wires from the city phone
system.
Downstairs, Joseph Carvalho -
Clutch AS he has been known all
over town since his newsbov days
heard the sounds of quarIelinu. and
shot aud the can from the window.
| He phoned for tho police, who took the
woman s slayer into custody. While
waiting for Deputy Sheriff Rose, and
tho, coroner, to arrive, the narrow
street filed with n curious crowd.
| Meanwhile the click. click, click OF
the wire connections continued, and
through the thousands of wires, run
ming close TO the body of the murdered
woman, poured the conversation of the
4 city, the tests, the talk of sweetheart
to sweet heart, business, quarrcls, ap'
| pointmcnts.
Wife Came to Quarrel.
Whaley, who was formerly in the
army service of the United States gov
crnment, was Mt his desk, answering
calls to correct wire troubles. A Lnck
came into the dark alley and stopped
behind the automobile of +. Turin,
who was cleaning a lamp. A woman
stepped from the hack, came momonta-
rily into the glare of the auto lamps,
swiftly rounded the auto and whlkei
| quickly up the lane between the Y. NJ.
G. A. and telephone building and en-.
tered the latter at the side door. She
was fnuttcring and, seemed 20 be in an
excited, condition. A moment later tho
man ut the auto hoard loud voices over
head and looked up toward the large
window OF. the second story. The Y9ices
,wsre clear and the woman s tone was
loud and angry. ''''''" ~
Then, screaming, she said. ",.Shoot
me, shot mc,n Within n few Seconds
the shot was Arsi. 'rutrih heard n
"muekling" sound and \ groan, tii6n
u tinkle as something fsll on the
4 ground beside him. This was the ear.
fridge shell, Tipped from the automatic
80 rcvolVr Through the window. ~
Driven 70 tho Crime. ,sbbu4 a
On tho way TO the station, Whaley,
who was greatly depressed, told the
officers he had seen drivenito tho act
By the nagging of the woman, whom he
coudn I plaese. tbf,H Nyl b. ui
i Manager tliummel of tho telephone
company said that it, waa generally
known round tho building that there
Was trouble in the family. Whaley
, told him that he was driven almost to
, killing himself because of his homo
, troubles and that he had left home
and taken room in the McCandlcss
block.
The woman before marriage was q
Miss Andrews, whose father was wei
known at Makaha. lie died short
time ago, leaving property. The WON
ans share was soon dissipatcd. She
} was sister of tho wife OF Sergeant
Dan Kamahu of the police force
Among her associates she was known
to have violent temper, n naggin2
disposition. Wbaley's own associate:
symrathizel with him because of theil
knowledge of her faults. 4t
Whaley was three months in the EN-
ploy of the company, during its con
struction extension in tsc country while
the automatic system was being in
stalled. He went to HiIo and worked
on the Hilo Railroad and about foui
months ago returned to the telephone
company, The couple had been mar
! ried about three years.
Whaley II held a. The police station
4 eoroner's jury viii be selected today
and mn inquos' hold probably tonight
The body of ,he woman was taken to
the moruue last NIGHT