The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-20
MURDERER TRIED A
TO BLAME WOMAN
Filipino Tragedy At HakaIau Is
. Tale Of Primal Passion and
Killing Without Mercy
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HILO, October lG---Aftpr weeks Of
hard work and following the faintest
OF clews Deputy Sheriff Henry Martin
has finally discovered the alleged mufs
derers Of Donieio Cendu, whose body
was found beside the railway track at
Hakalau on October last, with a
broken neck. 1t looked az though
Donicio had fallen from the belt road
bridge, which crosses the railway truck
there, and such would probably have
been the verdictyof a jury, except that
Deputy sheriff Martin became suspi.
ciousy because the dead man = hat was
found further up the road.
With Mike, the Filipino police off.
cen Martin took the trail and never let
up until Santiago Gobat and Marciana
Elibusada had been arrested and signed
their confessions as to Just how they
came to kill DOnicio. The story Of the
murder brings TO mind the pre- historic
neolithicy days of the ravp.men in the
cree play of passion, wife stealing and
death.
Tried To Blame Woman
Once they were in the clutch of the
police, however, the cowardly Filipino
tried in his first confession to place the
blAme for the murder upon his womn n,
but when confronted with the comics.
sion Of Marciana he changed his con.
fession, acknowledging that he had
struck Donicio with u stick He also
added q note TO Marciana s confession
in which, he states that her confession
is true, but that she leaves out great
deal of what happened.
The difference. in the first confession
Of Santiago with that made by Marci
ana is that he claimed the woman
pounded Donicio on the fnce and head
with a stone, while he held him down
but in the second confession states
that he hit him on the head with q
stick, knocking him down. Then they
threw him over the embankment tt
his death. D..
Game For wahine
In his confession Santiago tells in
detail Of the visit of Donieio Cendg
and two friends from Kaiakea, where
they worked, to the Hakalau camp
where Santiago kept a Filipino board
ing house. He said that Donieio told
hint that they bad come to the camy
70 take, Q n wahine'' away with them
They were not particular, stating that
IL they could not get a certain woman
they would take another. One men
toned, they refused to take, beeaus,
she had too many children.
That night there was a dance and
Santiago and the others went there ant
urank some wine. Later, according Il
the confessions, Santiago, DOnicio nc
others returned to the boarding houst
and there Donicio tried to drag Mar
CHINA away with him. A fight followed
in which Donicio's friends disarmet
Santiago, and Donicio dragged Mar
ciana out of the house and ran with heI
20 the japanese School house and ther
to the government road.
Fought With Stones
Santiago, meanwhile had secured
another club and started in pursuit OF
his woman and Donicio. When h,
came Up with them on the road DonieiC
threw stones at him in true Paleolithi,
style and kept him of until near tn,
road bridge across the railway tracks,
Here Santiago rushed in and smotC
his rival with the club and felled him
For an hour says Marciana. in her con
fession, they watched beside the body
then decided that the man was dead
so while Santiago took Donieio by tn,
shoulders, Marciana took her late love
by the legs and together they threw
him over the embankment to the rail
way tracks below. But they did no
think of throwing his hat with him.
During the search for the murdere
deputy sheriff Martin made over
dozen arrests, finally securing the tw,
who made the confession. They will
be given a hearing before Judge W. S
Wise in the District Court on octobe
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