The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-01
GREEK MURDERS,
!. PARAMOUR;; Then
KILLS HIMSELF
- IT =
Recent Arrival At IwiIei Shot
BY Man Who Followed Her
From Coast g.:


in week yesterday, followed by thu
murderCr's suicide.
Shortly after lnr o'clock IN tire
morning, Louis Mau,sis a recent ar.
rNal at Honolulu, entered a house at
iwllel and fired three shots from a re.
VolNer at girl Lmown in the district
as Lena Brown, killing her almost in.
stantly.
Manesls then turned the weapon on
himself and blew out his own brains.
Was Recent Arrival
The woman had arrived here from
San Francisco only week ago last
Friday. Manesiv followed her from the
coast by the next steamer.
lwilri harborcd the murdered woman
soon after her arrival. She made her
home in cottage rented by Bertha
Stein -,
A day or so al; .ronesis went 70 ths
cottage and quarrelcd with Lena. The
proprietor of the house INTERVIEWED and
babe the man make himself scarce.
Yesterday, the woman was in her
house when she saw Manesis approach.
Fearing trouble, she fed to am adioin-
ing cottage. -. d.. .
4nTee o1OJS 10 Kill ~.
Manesis followed her and, entering
the house, found Lena in a back room.
After few heated words, he pulled
gun and sticking it against the wo-
mans breast, fred. The bullet struck
bone and, CHANGING, buried itself a
little below the skin.
A struggle ensued, in which the va
man tried to wrest the weapon from
her assailant. Again he fred. This
time the bullet went through her lett
arm above the elbow. A third shot
pierced the girl s neck below the law.
The revolver had been held so close to
her face that it was speckled with
powder burns.
Manesis then shot himself through
the head
Bodies Lay Side By Side
When the police arrived they found
the two bodies lying side by side on
the floor at a bedside. The girl was
clad only in a kimono.
As the woman shovel Pickering
signs of life, she was rusMed to the
hospital, but hhe died ON the way.
Thence her body was taken to the
morgue where that of he. slayer al
ready was repOsing.
The revolver found in the room was
a ,3S-cal.'U. S. make.
Mancsis, according TO n card given
to friend, lived at the Marqnise Ho.
tel, 9l7 Kearney street, San Francisco,
and passed as a dealer in embroidery
and silks.
The dead man had spent consider
able portion of his time while in Homo.
lulu seeing the sights in an automobile.
He appeared to be well furnished with
money. Yesterday morning he was
seen in the immediate vicinity of the
shooting.
As the patrol wagon bore the woman
to the hospital a man jumped on to the
steps. He was Harry Rotberg, who
in lwilei, a short distance from the
place where the tragedy occurred
Husband Lives Here
Rotberg declares that the woman
was his wife and that he married hen
II New York about two years ago. lie
says that she left him after eight
months of married life and that he did
not see her again until the latter pant
If last year, when she visited his plar"
of business in Los Angeles and asked
20 be forgiven and taken back
According to Rotberg, the couple
made up their differences but, after
Two weeks, she ran away to San Fran.
cisco with Manesis.
ROtberg came to Honolulu short
time ago and went into business but
not until last week did he again see
or hear of his wife, and then he came
across her accidentally on the street,
lie says she told him that she had hrcn
living in 1wilei and he persuaded her
to live with him once again.
Ran Away Again 4
Last Saturday Rotberg went to work
as usual and on returning to his room
., the DeImonico Hotel, noticed his
wife s absence. Investigation showed
that she was in house of i'll fame
That was the last time he spoke to her.
The woman was a Jewess, about
twenty-five years Of age, dark and
petite. Manesis, about thirty years
old, is said to have been an Armenian
or Greek. He wore Moose emblem.
Manesis had been living at the villa,
a roOming- house on Fort Street. lie
PASSED the remark to acquaintancrs
that he had plenty of money and didn t
caro- how quickly he got rid of it.
Barndie Watson, a chauffeur, has
dhivnR Manesis nearly every day for
the past week. He says that ne seemed
restless and worried.
Came To Find Woman
Manesis told Watson that he hnd
r"me to Honolulu to find a girl named
I "na, with whom he had lived in san
Francisco and of whom he was Yer,
fond. A few weeks ago, he sand
! ."na had stolen a valuable diamond
ring from him and San Francisco de
t"rtives had found the ring in the pos
session Of ROtberg, whom. he alleged.
l"camped from San Francisco and
cam" to Honolulu.
Mancsis seemed to he cray about
~" Girl, said Watson, last night - lie
TOLD me that tive woman followed Rot
berry to Honolulu and th1t he followed
her. lie also said thQ Rotberg had
married the woman in Honolulu last
w'cI ard h"d rhcw"d him pai,,.~
rro,ing It JIr said that he wn1Ity
~ ""t Lpnn away from Iwilri "
4" in"rcst on the bodies will be- hr.r
v rIncsdar afternoon