Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-17


the house and shot himself, after
ward Keeling out into the yard. An
examination c: the house and yard
this morning bears out this story.
BlOOd-spots are thick in the little
dining-rOom and kitchen and there is
a weller Of gore at the sill Of the
kitchen door. lef: evidently as the
man leaned there a moment before
staggering out into the yard to lie
down.
Panic struck the school like a cy-
clone. The schoolroom was deserted.
books and papers left lying every
where. the doors open, and the chill
dren fled down the road.
Some Of them were bleeding so pro-
fusely that for half a mile blood
spots are thick on the muddy road,
reddening even the red volcanic soil.
The spectacle of the children scream
ing and rushing down the road, some
OF them with blood dyeing their
clothes, was the thing that sent the
valley into a kind of hysteria from
which it has not yet recovered.
Word Sent to Police.
Mrs. Fernandez is now known to
have sent in the telephone message
that summoned Deputy Sheriff Rose,
Deputy Kellett, and a squad Of police
Fastening to the scene of the trag-
edy in KaIihi valley this morning.
The first intimation that the CEN
trail station had of the ARRAY which
resulted in the terrible injuries to
two persons and the infliction of
wounds to seven others, was frantic
plea coming over the wire, the speak
er declaring that her life was in dan.
ger and that assistance was needed a:
once.
Mrs. Johanna Fernandez is declar-
ed by a score little children who
were eye-witnesses to the dramatic
shooting, TO have endeavored to par
ley with the Infatuated husband for
some moments. She then left him,
and Is saIu to have gone to the teie-
phone and engaged in conversation for
some moments, before being attacked
by Fernandez. On this point stories
differ. s7"S.. -. - ~. @s,Ns''. ~
The police from testimony ledueed
this morning now fix the time or the
shooting at between nine fifteen and
nine thirty O'Clock. '.'',H'
Fernandez Had Made Many Threats,
Manuel Fernandez, husband OF the
woman that now lies dead at
the. Queens Hospital is alleged by
a sistsr-inlaw, Mrs. Mary F. Eeves to
lave made repeated threats to do
todily injury or take the life OF his
wife, Johanna Fernandez.
Their married life has been any
Il ing but happy one" sobbed the
woman, who almost on the verge OF
Mysteries, awaited near the operating
room at the hospital this morning for
some hopeful tiding concerning the
Is te of her sister. =.
Il have heard my sister often ex-
bless great fear for her life. They
rave not been living together for some
months past. More than once he has
told her that he would shoot her.
"A week ago, Fernandez visited his
wife who lived at the teachers cot
tage at Kalihi-uka school. At that time
my sister believed that the husband
came prepared to do her some injury.
She afterward told me tn tahe had
raised q great fuss but that she. had
finally succeeded in getting the man
to return to town.
Advised to Quit Fernandez.
Mrs. Fernandez acted against the
advice of her relatives in attempting
to continue to live with Fernandez,
according to the statements made by
sister of the woman who received
fatal gun shot wound this morning.
AS far back as a year ago, Mrs.
Fernandez was advised to leave Fer
nandez, who, it is alleged, has been
very abusive to the wife, and caused
her much bodily suffering as well as.
mental anguish.
"My sister was always good wo-
man." insisted Mrs. Neves, a sister
to the dead woman. "She always
treated Fernandez far better than he
deserved"
The married life of the pair was,
however, far from being a happy one,
according to the testimony vouched
the police from a number of neigh
bors who have been more or less inti-
mately acquainted with the strained
relations existing between the pair for
a period covering several years.
Daughter Witnessed Tragedy and
Seeks Aid.
Carrie Mascoto, a little eight year
old daughter Of the Fernandez was
Mortified and stunned spectator to the
shooting of her mother, and the in
tended suicide of the father, and then
turned and ran as fast as her limbs
could carry her to the nearest. neigh
bors. The child said this morning
that she had started out right after
the two shots had been fired by Fer
nandez. She was ON the road when
the police ambulance, then speeding
to the scene of the murder met the
li,ue one, and picked her up.
The children who gathered around
Mrs. Fernandez, following her cries
for help, gave a pretty we'll connectef
account of the affair when questionetd
By police officers and newspapermen.
According to their story, the woman,
following some angry words with Fer
ne ndez, was near the steps leading
into the kitchen of the teachers cot
tage when Fernandez pulled the shot