The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-08-10
FACE OF JAPANESE
ISBADLY SLASHED
Mystery Shrouds Cutting ARRAY
Which Took Place Near the
Opera House

A cutting ease which is at present
iirouded in mystery took place about
midnight Saturday in Mhani ST. eot
,oar the opera house.
Word was received at the police sta
ION that a Japanese man was bleeding
death on the grass near the Kame.
lamcha statue. 81 -
The patrol wagon went to the place
Indicated and found a Japanese named
hi bleeding profusely from a severed
lrtory on the right side Of his face.
The wounded man was hurried TO
queen 5 Hospital and given immediate
attention. His face was found to have
Deon slashed, apparently with design,
with razor or some very sharp instru.
mont. 81 s.. No
ACE Terribly Gashed -,
His forehead was barred to the skull
With a latitudinal cash. Ills left check
oore a longitudinal wounL and his right
heck was cut co the bone, exposing the
Goth. The latter cut severed an art
cry, and when lshi was placed on the
operating table blood was spouting out
Ike miniature fountain. #I
More than twenty.fiv stitches were
aiken In the man 3 face, and he bore
he operation without fiuching a mus
lie. D.. iS6s .s
At the hospital he asked to be al
owed to make statement. He said
phat he had been cut by Filipino, but
refused to give his name.
f"Spse make, = said he, "pilikia.
5pose I no make, II know that man and
bimcby / get him. ~ y
ishi Had Been Drinking
Ishi, who had been drinking, stated
that he had been visiting friends at the
.orner of Beretania and River streets
and that he had had words with Fill.
lino This Filipino, he haid, got in
! = King street car with him and when
at the opera house ordered him to get
n. He did so, and WAS attacked when
hcy had walked as far as the big tree
n the dark place beside the opera
,ouse. just why he acccded to the re
quest of the Filipino TO get of the car
nc did not explain. ,'
Yesterday morning the police learn
vi that Ishi had been removed, to the
Bcrctania Sanitarium where he is EN-
pIoyed and where he lives, He stil
'cfuscd to give the name of his assail
ant and WASH Z so sure that it was 9
Filipino who cut him. =
suspect Covered With Blood
The proprietor of a Chinese store il
King street near Alakea street, stated
Yesterday that between eleven anC
welve o'clock on Saturday night, q
hawaiian man with a blood stainet
'Iirt and. hands covered with Tbloot
anne into his store and asked to be al
Owed to wash his hands. The China
man being frightened ut the man s ap
,carance, refused to let him wash hi
hands and ordered him tout of his store
he says that the man, turned down Ala
front. This angle OF the story is be
ing Investigated by the detective. de
APARTMENT. .A.
Ishi is good looking japanese abou
thirty years old.
There is a probability, judging from
the nature Of the mans injuries, an
taking intofeonsidcration the fact tina
tneither his gold watch nor money wer
taken, -thatNhis assailapt carried out
premeditated plan of disfiguring hin
" in other words of spelling his goo
looks.
Prompted By Jealousy ..-s+
There is also a possibility that Ish
tad been playing the part Of a ga.
Lothario, to someone else's jealous di'
comfiture, and that the latter sough
TO disfigure him so that the object O
lis attentions would not look with faV
r. upon him again.