The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-25
BRIDE MURDERED
ON BUSY STREET
Pretty Young Korean Stabbed
and Slashed BY Husband
Wilde On Way Home

;, Walking hand in hand with q girl
friend on her return home from
pleasant evening spent in q moving.
picture thepter pretty nineteen wear
old Kim PAX Chi Ser a Korean bride.
was fiendiShIy attacked by her hus.
band, a Korean man, and lstabbea TO
aeath On A. public hig ighisaS right iii the
heart sof mle Of the busiest, districts
an the.S city, at half-Past nine o clock
last night Tie tragedy took place
% the Eva side Of Liiiha street, with.
in a. few yards Of King street,
After attacking the woman, the mur.
derer fled in the direction of King street
pursued by a bowling mob, and was
captured by Wallace Saffrey a book
keeper at. the Palama Settlement.
ThesWUfhan was rushed to Queen 's
hospital with all possible speed but was
dead before the patrol.wagon arrived
From thence she was taken to the
police. station and from there to the
morgue. >4.'. a. = P
poheemAn's Servant ....
kim PAX Ser had for the past month
or so been in the employ Of the s"rrily
of Apana, the well!known poliee.of
and last night she ana several members
of the family attended the moving pie.
ture theater near Liliha' and King
streets. ..''
The show over the party started to
walk leisurely home. Mrs. Luhiwa
Apana and her daughter Helen were
walking some, distance ahead. of Mary,
q fifteen 'year.old daughter, and Sam,
a little son Of Apana! With them chat.
ting gaily in the bright moonlight, and
holding hands walked kim, as she was
called by the family.
Like Big Beast = r.:
y Mary Apanh said late last night that
as they were passing the, tenement
house, PAX Shi Ser ponncedt upon his
wife, to use her own words, "like a
big beast would jump ION a little one. -
He placed his hands over her mouth
and she screamed out in terror.
I The next thing that the Apanas knew
was that there was the sound of shot
and the girl was seen 70 stumble and
then regain her feet. Greatly frighten-
ed, the Apana family. ran away and on
looking back saw Kim ON the ground
with her husband kneelinG over her
and thrusting at her head with some
thing that CLEANED In the moonlight.
Then a crowd gathered and people
passed the word around that someone
had been killed. No. :. r..
Fearfully the Apanas erept to the
edge of the crowd and after little
while the patrol.wagon came dashing
up sand the body of their friend and
servant was lifted therein and driven
away.
Fearfully Mutilatsd
To the Queens Hospital sped the
patrol wagon. Arrived there, doctor
had only to take q cursory look ut the
body to see that life was extinct. A
Pocketknife was sticking in the girl y
windpipe when the body was taken into
the hospital. r..
The left arm was slashed open for
q distance. of six inches above the
wrist laying bare the sinews. In the
back of the neck were two fearful
knife wounds, and there were two
more, one above and one below the
left ear. The wounds in the neck in
all probability ctusedt death.
Poor Kim looked pitifuI as she lay
with her dark tresses clotted with her
life 5 blood on the table in the morgue.
Her slight figure was clad in a simple
! gray y-colored holoku and on her waxen
features dwelt a great" peace.
Hundreds In Chase
Wallace Saffrey was standing out
side the PalamG Mission when his at
tention was attracted by the shouting
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