The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-14
Police Are Trying To Fasten
Chez Killing Upon zee 70
keuk' Bandit .
TESTIMONY At INQUEST
TENDS 10 POINT TO HIM
Women Who Have Been Sum-
moned Are Expected 70 Give !
Important Testimony 4

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From evidence presented at the In;
quest held yesterday. afternoon ON Chez
Wong Yer, rent collector for Z. @. Win
ston, who was shot and killed early
last Thursday morning in tenement
house near the junction Of King and
Beretanis streets. II looks as II the
wounded Korean bandit. zee 70 KeulS,
at present lying In the police emergency
hospital, may be charged with, the
crime.
Near the place where Yer was killed
was found a piece Of handkerchief
marked lice, similar mari being
found on other articles of clothing be,
longing TO zee. Ye Kvuk.. ybo has aa,
mitted to. the police that his real name
is Lee 70 Keuk and that he used the
name Of Lee frequently. X,
At the same time Keuk denies that
two marked hankerchiefs found in the
servant 3 quarters back Of the Villa
Lanai, where he lived, belonged to him.
Kenk 3 undergarments, shirt and all Of
his clothing are marked :. Lee.
unfortunately for the strength Of the
, eiTcnmstantiI evidence, the portion Of
the hankefehief bearip9 the name of
Lee has been lost, and, despite dill.
gent Efforts to find it, cannot be re-
covered.
Important Witnesses Expected
AT four O'Clock the inquest was ad-
ionrued until two o'clock this after
noon, when new and important wit,
nesses will be called, including two
women who are expected TO testify to
having seen man closely resembling
zee 70 Keuk run from the house where
the murder was committed, to the spot
whore the torn handkerchief was found,
The police are of the opinion hat
the slayer OF the Korean cut his hand
by poking IL through the broken glass
in the window of the room In which
the murder was committed, aud then
stanched the flow Of blood with his
= handkerchief, dfterwafd seeking TO- deb
troy the discriminating piece Of linen BY
tearing II IN half and throwing away
The portion on which the name was
written. II Is believed that he made
q mistake and threw away the wrong
half at the spot about 200 feet from the
room in which the man was killed,
where IL was fonnd by a Japanese.
= DR.. r.. e. Aver testified that death
was caused by bullet wound in the
head, made by a SS,calibre bullet. He
did not think IL possible that the wound
was self inflicted.
d Mrs. Kanda, asJapanese woman who
lives in a camp close to the place where
the murder was committed, testified
that at about two o,clock on Thursday
li,vllliIlg she heard three shots fred an
called the attention Of her husband y
the incident. :. Il 4. !,
inds 'Lss, On Clothing
Sergeant Kellett Of the detective bn-
rean testified that the preceding, wit
ness had told him Of the half of q
handkerchief being found and that he
had found the naniJ .sLee marked on
articles Of. clothing belonging 10 Yee
70 Keuk.e He knew that Keuk some.
times went BY tho. name OF Lee. He
said that Rsuk had admitted TO him
that the under clothing was his aud
that HIS real name was Lee Yo Keuk,
The witness said that on. examining the
room in which the shooting took place
he found that u bullet had plougheJ
through pillow Of the bed ON which
Cher was found lying. There wai
q, powder marks on the pillow. He stated
that near bath house facing the
building IN which the Korean was kin
ed he found half of a blood stained
handkerchief, portion Of the border
Of which was missing. He had since
learned that strip bearing the name
Lee had been torn from the hand
kerehief and been lost. He had ;mads
search Of the garbage dumps In hope
OF recovering the missing fragment bal
had been unsuccessful in his effort. =
" kelIett stated that about a month
ago Chez Wong Yer had reported 10 tbs
chief of detectives that zee 70 Keul
had stuck n gun through the window
: OF his room and had threatened that
some day he would kill him. Che
was the man who. was Influential II
bringing about the apprehension o.
Keuk after he had made his first Iesdaps
from jail, through the artifice bf giving
him drugged whiskey. ~, ~ -
Part Of Bloody Handkerchief ~
II. Yokuggwa, reporter of the Hawai-
Shippo, stated that on the morning Of
the mnrdsf he visited the scene anG
that Japanese named Mitsuka brought
half of q bloodstained handkerchief X
him, which he said he had found bacl
OF a bath house near Cher's room. "
kugawa found the name 'tLee /" on thu
border of the handk erchief and cut I
of with pair of SCISSORS leaving thu
remainder where Mitsuka had found Il
When he got back 10 the Office he gavi
the cut portion 60 another reporte
named Sugawa who lost Il, sat
Masao Sugawa corroborated the testi
mony Of the preceding witness. X. Nit
suka, Sy Lee, Sumo Tomd and @. Ty,
also were called.