Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-08

nifty CT the crime. but RodriGues UNI
JcTstuod its seriousness. Is
Crime ktrecious One ~ -: .a-... !
I he crime: for which the three FIJI
iyin0S, this morning, paid tue death
penalty was one of the most atrccious
in the, annals of the police depart
ment. Il. -:".~ ....... .::. 3, i
On the morning Of May l the bodies
OF. Niue Kun Yee and his handsome
young wife, Lam See were discover
ed almost. covered in their own blood
in the store in which the Chinese had
conducted a general merchandise bus
mess at Kahauiki, just outside Fort
SKATER. for a numbtr Of years. r.
Zach body was frightfully mutilai-
Cd. the threats being cut and the
bodies literally covered with wounds,
believed, at the time. TO have been
inflicted with blunt instrument.
The breast and shoulders of the young
woman. WHO was barely 20 years. OF
as e. were cut and gashed as though
with a rough knife blade or chisel.
. A rifled cash drawer. earelessly
thrown upon the counter, and safe
that had been opened by an amateur
tFS.E hSIIi lOlG plainly tiiC -LllOllNS VI
the murderer or nurdererS.
From the brutality displayed by the
HurGererS the police at once evclYed
the theory that it was the work of
Oriantals and with this idea in mind
and the photographs Of blood-stained
footprints with which the little store
vas covered the department started
or what looked like an almost impos-
sible task Ct bringing to justice :.
perpetrators of the fiendish crime.
Men Are Arrested +. .>..~
The day following the discovery of
the dead Chinese and his wife Chief
Of Detectives McDuffie placed. un-
der arrest Domingo RodrigueS, who
was REPORTED to have been seen
washing blood-stJined sweater
in the bathroom of Hotel
street rconiing house. The re-
suit was the search of the room
that had been occupied by Domingo
and the discovery of the sweater and
2 pair of tan shoes, all bearing evil
Gences of bloodstains that effort had
ne II unde 70 erase A minute micro
Scopic investigation leu TO the con-
euita that this was human blood.
The arrest of ether lr::;ipinos followed
in quick succession, also the discov-
cry. of a revolver, stolen from =
Chinese store, where ii had been hid
den by Domingo Rodrigues.
Rodrigucs. according to the story
related to the police when he was
first placed under arrest, was forced
to join the murder quartet at the
NfYnk NS Il IN h. ,s.xU.
of the crime, made May 6, he denied
that he had any part in the killing of
The Chinese and his wife, stoutly
maintaining that he alone of the
quartet was unarmed. One dollar in
coin and the revolver he declared
to be his share of the loot that had
Teen secured at the cost of two lives.
Confessions Are Made
The confession of Rodrigues was
followed by one from Celestino Man
alo, two days later. Each confession
placed the brunt of the responsibility /
for the double murder on the
shoulders of Hide. Bautista The
other Filipino under arrest at this
time was Miguel Manigbas.
Manigblas, on May IL, admitted be-
ing a party to the murders, Ilotwith-
standing the fact that, previously, he
had denied any participation In the
crime. He had steadfastly maintain
ed this attitude, Notwithstanding the
fact that the original confessor,
Rodrigues, had implicated him in the
crime.
On the same date Manalo made a |
further confession in which he fasten- |
ed upon Rodrigues the entire re-
sponsibility for both murders. He |
further stated that, during the con-
tlnement of the quartet in the city |
bastile, Rodrigues had threatened his
(Manalo's) life, unless the latter
made confession that would, at /
least, partially clear the former
On May 90 two indictments were !
returned against Bautista, Rodrigues,
Manigbas and Manalo, charging them T
with murder in the first degree On
May % they were afraigned before
Judge Robinson and the indictments /
read and translated to them. On May |
26 three of the accused men entered
pleas of not guilty Manolo reserving
his plea until the morning of June 2.
on which date he entered a plea of !
guilty and threw himself on the
mercy of the court, practically admit
ting that he would turn states evil
dence," whereby he secured a reduc-
tion in the charge against him to that
OF murder in the second degree.
Attacks Fellow-Prisoner I'LL
Rodrigues, Bautista and Mapigbas
were placed on trial together and on
June 10, after less than three min
utes elaboration. a jury returned a
verdict of guilty as charged" On
June II Judge Robinson passed
sentence The three who had been
hound guilty of murder in the first de-
gree were sentenced to death, while
Manalo, whose plea of guilty had
saved the territory the trouble and
expense of prosecution, was sentenced
to hard labor for not less than 90
years. This means a life sentence,
unless a pardon is forthcoming.
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