The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-08-15
.|W|LE| MURDER
MYSTERY CROWS
Witnesses Found Who Saw Men
Leap From Death Hack -
Three Minutes Before Discovery
of Blood.soaked Corpse.
from Thursday Advertiser)

(From Thursday Advertiser)
Two men wearing uniforms jumped
out of Hack us Monday night at Iwi.
lei three minutes before passers.by saw
the body of kikuro Hirai, with throat
slashed, leaning out of it. This was
the evidence secured by Chief McDufiie
yesterday from a japanese living oppo-
site the scene of the brutal murder
and is being fitted into the ease so far
prepared to see if it also duplicates
Ray c. Smith and George l.. Lyons of
the Fourth Cavalry, who are still being
held for the crime.
The case yesterday reached the usual
aftermath of false information and
'bum steers" which generally follow
every crime of that Importance. One
of these led Chief of Detectives Me.
Dufiie to two hours hard work, only
to find that the suspects he was seek.
ing We're one of his own men and
provost guard sergeant.
1t was announced by the police last
night that so far the evidence impli.
Gates only the two men who are being
held and that no trace of third or
fourth party has appeared. 1t is said
that the men have as yet not told a
story straight enough to throw doubt
on the circumstantial evidence against
them. Each man, says McDufiie, tells
a radically different story and persists
in it.
Slight Change in Evidence.
One of the most important pieces of
evidence added to the records yester-
day, though small, changes the ease
little and it now appears that Smith,
not Lyons, entered the resort at Iwilei
where the police first obtained the de-
scriptions Of the present prisoners. The
women of the resort gave McDuffie an
absolute description of Lyons on Mon.
day night, he says. Yesterday Officer
Kaui told the chief that it was Smith
that he threw out of the resort at the
woman s request. Smith was brought
up and was identified without reserva
ton by the foot officer, who was on
duty in Iwilei that night.
The police yesterday summarized the
evidence as follows. Smith and Lyons
arrived in town Monday afternoon and
registered at the Majestic Hotel under
the names OF J g. Hinckley and G.. j..
Slow. 10 the evening they took hack
and drove to the Pfost Saloon where
Henry Walker, a barkeeper, sold Smith
a bottle of Old Hospitality whiskey
From there they drove to the railroad
station, both drunk. Their stories agree
this far and the evidence Of Walker
and others lines up with it, also. There
is. no diversion until after they passed
the depot. .,r.ia-..s
4; Smith says that the two continued to-
gether. Lyons says that Smith became
so profane that they had fight in the
hack in which Lyons hit Smith on the
nose and made it bleed, Lyons then
leaving the hack. Lyons does not ad-
NIT that he reached Iwilei until after
the murder had been discovered there.
Black Annie One Witness.
Subsequent evidence comes from
other persons. A woman called Black
of the men whom she describes as a
short man with little black mustache
came into her room and caused trouble.
He held a flash of whiskey in his hand.
A foot patrolman was called and he
was thrown out. The other man was
sitting in the hack waiting for him.
The woman S description fits Lyons but
the officer identified Smith as the man.
A provost guard sergeant remembers
ordering the hack to proceed on. There
were then two soldiers in it. Black
Annie s room was entered shortly be-
fore seven clock. There is testimony
showing that the hack turned around
from her house and proceeded up the
street. Her house is close to Charlie
Hubert s store.
Three minutes after the soldier was
thrown from her room, the Japanese
living opposite the old stockades, a half
block up the road which the hack had
gone, heard japanese screaming
"Haul in, !" once. This is the universal
cry for the police in Honolulu. He
started down the steps but his wife
held him back. He looked across the
road and saw two soldiers jump out
of hack and run away. Not more
than five minutes after Black Annie
had been accosted, Hirai's body was
found by j. Lythe.
oficers Find Hat.
The police arrived from headquarters
within few minutes and shortly after
wards were presented with an Army
cap hearing the arms of C Troop
Fourth Cavalry. The top of the bat
was covered with blood and had been
found half way down the makai Iwilei
road. A search of the Hirai hack re-.
vealed bottle of Old Hospitality
whiskey with blood spot on it.
Two officers We're dispatched in each
direction to close the district. Smith
was found some distance away from
where the hat had been picked up, on
the same road. He was in drunken
stupor and his leggins. shoes, and trous.
ers were thickly spotted with what the