The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-29
KOREAN Swings /.
'QFE a GALLONS
y 70 HIS Death
Ia Il---L'I II w. =,
PAX Chi Sur Pays Extreme Penal
tyFor Brutal Murder Of go
~ Little Wife
SHOWS SLIGHT EMOTION
WHEN HE FACES MOOSE,
First Execution BY High Sheriff
Jarrett Accomplished Swift
" and Without Hitch !.
(Trom Saturday Advertiser. }

PAX Chi Sur went to his Geath at the
territorial PRISON Yesterday mornin., J.
1t was one month ana one day after
he murdered his wife. IN rough,
black painted Apine coffin, his body wns
buried at Makiki ~
His neck was broken cleauly. Save
for spasmodie twitchings Of the fingers,
there was no movement after the fall.
1t wns eleven minutes after eight
when he walked upon the sGatfo!d,
eyes half-shut, his flesh gray through
the yellow OF his skin, trembling Sc,
verely, supported by man on either
side, but nonetheleas master of himself
to the end. Two and one-h half minutes
later he shot through the tran; FOR
nineteen minutes he swayed slightly to
and fro; twenty minutes after he fell
the body was cut down. "-'tf .. Re-.
Another Korean Sobs Prayer I". !.
He died to the accompaniment of a
half,hysterical prayer by another Kor-
ean,, PAX Ho Biong, who was moved al
most as greatly as the doomed. On the
scaffold, also, stool Col. Blanche h.
Cox and Capt. A. c. Nelson of the
Salvation Army, the latter in charge
of work among the Koreans. .,i4s
Some forty saw the execution of the
sentence. In tree outside, boys and
men clambered, pecring over the wall.
On benches under wile -spreRdiB
tree, in whose boughs few birds sang,
through whose leaves stray sunheams
filtered through, the spectators gather
ed at eight 'cl0ck. High Sheriff Jar
rett, within, real, the death warrant,
which was translated by NJ X. Choo;
and then, aided by two men, preceded
by prison officials, followed by the
three from the Salvation Army, PAX
Chi Sur walked the last few feet he
should walk, from his cell, up short
stair, to the left and out into the, sun
and air and upon the scaffold.
PAX Chi Sur had slept well that last
night. During the day before he had
been calm, but when he was awakened
at five O'Clock as the final sun rose
for him, he was profoundly nervous.
IIt will be remembered that he was
half hysterieal. the night. he killed his
WIFI. When the, first spectators en-
tered the prison Yesterday moaning, he
was eating his breakfast. TH%t .
90 Nervous THOUGH he was, he, also was
collected He listened patiently to the
reading of tn, death warrant. At the
end he merely bowed, in the curious
fashion Oricntals have. He never
spoke afterward. There was no word
on, the scaffOld @.
thanks High Sheriff 49,
Earlier he had thanked Sheriff Jarrett
for getting his clothing. He had been clad
in prison stripes, and; Thursday even.
ing, his own suit had been sent for, but
it could not he fouud. Yesterday
morning, the early arrived spectators
saw him reach through the bars of his
cell, write quickly ON q sheet of paper,
which was hurried away. Soon his
clothing came, in little trunk, which
lay in the corridor after its owner new
er should need it again. That he
should not die in prison garments
pleased him.
1t was Sheriff Jarrett 3 first execu.
ton. 1t moved with a swiftness that
was best for all, doomed, officials and
spec tators.
Four Koreans, one woman came
early to the prison. They waited to
speak with PAX Chi Sur, Jbut, after a
time, he sent word that he did not
wish to see them. He had no relatives
here, Father and mother are dead
There are three sisters in Korea.
Victim Was Picture Bride
Kim PAX Chi Sur was murdered May
"a at Liliha and Kin streets. Her
husband "pounced on her as bio
beast would pouHee on a little one,
shot at her and stabbed her several
times. She had come from Korea a
short time before as picture bride
hut had left her husband, presumably
because of ill-treatment.
Father Nalentin went to the cell yes
terdav morning. He baptized PAX Chi
Sur Thursday evening, into the Cath
Ollie faith. The father did not go on
the scaffold, however, for the doomed
man wished Korean prayer al the
last, and the priest stepped aside for
the three from the Salvation Army.
DIR. w. l.. Moore, assisted by Dr.. W.
W! 0ress, U. S. N, acted an physician.
= FrustIes lent the rppe above The moose.
Immediately the body was placed in n
cofiny waiting only fora brief exam
nation by DR.. Moore, which showed the
neck broken completely.