Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-18
ABANDON DOUBLE.
MURDER THEORY
IN MANOA CASE
This is My Last Bisht,"' Ella
Long Was Heard to Say,
Prior to Stabbing Wife
Monday. October Is,

Monday. October Is.
That Ella Long k...e,: himself aite'
numbering his l7-year-old wife at their
home on the upper Man"a road FRI
day night was made alEos: CoCta n
Saturday night. when HenrI Kcam'
told Chief OF Detectives McDuffe TIA
Friday evening priCr to the murIP- h
heard Long say, This IS my las
night"
Keamus statement which the p'
| lice believe is true, inflrat"S th"t III
murder was premeditated. The thoor
/ that Long killed his wife and vas tie
murdered by someone e'sp Was mol
still further improbable by tho Cst2'
lishment Of the witnesses that ! CT
and his wife we're left together in tn
| house after the fight started. all th'
others present having fed when IonG
began TO WELD his knife fist q
them ran down the road t7!'nediat"''
after Long attacked and stabbed hi
uncle, Antonino l ong, and IS Sou q.
Ant6nino could get away from the
drink -crazed man ne too ran.
The conflicting Testimony at to"
coroner's inquest Saturday is attribnt
] ed 10 the lack Of underst9pdng am
command of English words by somc
! OF the witnesses, and, also was prob
1,ably due to the half drunken state Of
most Of those At tbs party in the Lens en-
home. ( ,e = - -. n
+ "A. Christian. told the most come:
story at the inquest. He SAID ha
Mrs. Long ran from the room wit
her husband in pursuit, and that he
chased her back. AS Long came "
the steps he met his uncle and at
tackled him. When the uncle ran. he
went into the house ald again stabbed
his wife. Christian left at this time,
but before he went he heard Long
say he would kill himself
Charles Merseberg. Antonino Long
A. Long, Jr., and Christian were ques
toned at length Saturday night by
McDuffe, and the points in their first
testimony, which pointed .tora possible
double, murder, were CLEARED up.s,a #,
The mystery. which SURROUNDED the
two knives was solved when AntoninC
Long, declared that, the knife found
besidefthe7 dying man, en- Swhich there
were no blood stains, belonged to him:
and. had been ,bandsdstos DE-, Aver BY
him when the doctor asked for a.klfe.
toseut piece OF string -, .A,,
esInxestigatjon by the corohe r's Jury
Was further complicated thfs@ after
noon \ wher t was 9Sdistgght out tha at
Mrs Anna K. Woolsey teiephoned to
Elelics headquarters f1at Ia murder
had been ;eoInmittesd"e at the Eong's
residence. d Immediately after this was
nut into tie testimony the Jury adj
iourped untff 2 O'cloek tOhaorro~ after.
Noon '1f2 ,3JCEHS Iq4s2 81 ~
! Mrs. W66fsey.. who owns a" pof facs
tory, p quarter Of a nnflS from the Long
homie, Manuel Rosa and Jesse Jones
VIM be summoned to- appear In the
-reqrQher's office .tom8EEr99w as witness
es ,. 7l, 'i, '<2*'Hoh q ~ '~'''
The peculiar fact about Mrs. Wool
sey's statement that murder had been
done lies in the testimony Of all those
who were at the Longs on the night
of the tragedy that they did not see
Mrs. Long stabbed and did not know
she was dead. Sheriff Rose will try
to find out tomorrow how Mrs. Wool
sey knew of the murder, unless she
was told by one of those who now say
they knew nothing of 1t.
Officer Barboza, Patrolman Ludloff,
Henry Keamu, A. Long, A. Long,
.Jr, and Tom Quinn were among the
witnesses called today. No new facts
were, brought out, but some OF the
witnesses contradicted previous state
:ments, not material TO the case.
Henry KeamQ fatty denied theAHss
ssrtion of Antonino long that lie told
-6im, near the Woo1sey' house, that
Mrs. Long had been badly cut: kea'
tmu said he dftf not know at the time
whether any one had been cut or not.
Ella, Long, it is thought, stabbed
himself when he was outside" the
house, where he dropped the bloody
knife found later by McDuffie, and
then went inside the house, where he
was. found dying when tie officers
came.
Lying side by side In a double COT
I'm made especially for the purpose.
Ella A. Long, who died at the Queens
hospital early Saturday morning, and
Agnes Long, who died Friday night at
the Long home in Manoa, were buried
this afternoon in the Pauoa church
cemetery.
The funeral services were held from
Williams undertaking establishment,
from where the remains were convey
ed to the cemetery.