The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-10-03
SIX Weeks After Butchery IN
Waikiki Japanese Bride
Is Victim, Of Chinese
CELESTIAL PUTS OPIUM
IN RlcEBoWL or WIDOW
Brother Of Tomo Emoto Tells
Story Which May Lead To
Solution Of Crime

Six weeks after the strange, brutal
murder Of Japanese, which took place
In Waikiki, on August II, n new angle
has developed and added 10 the mys.
tery Of that affair.
Ogawa, brother of Tome Emoto,
whose husband was killed, repeated
yesterday TO Representative Of The
ADVERTISER an account given him by
the widowof inexplicable events which
occurred for several days just prior to
the tragedy. III 5lt8f
His story tends to involve a certain
Chinese Tome Emoto told him that
pm several occasions In the days lust
before the murder the Chinese endeav-
ored TO feed opium to her. This man.
according 20 0gawa, had mixed the
powerful Oriental narcotic in bowl
of rice that was prepared for Tome
Emoto,s supper, but in each instance
she had detected it's presspce in the
food and refused to eat il. M
Murder Was Intended
fNeither the narrator nor his sister
attempt 10 explain what purpose the
Chinese may have had in mind IN seek
| ing 10 get her under the opiate's infiu.
ence, though they give the inference
| that murder was intended.
Tome and her husband, Hiroki
Emoto, were found in their cottage in
Waikiki early on the morning Of Au.
gust n, the former lying on the floor
with half dozen knife wounds on her
body and nearly unconscious, and the
latter 8 dead body, terribly mutilated,
lying on the bed
The woman was removed 70 the hos
pital, and for several days her life was
IN doubt. There were wounds over her
body, from knees to head, and the
skull had been punctured by the assas.
sins dagger. She has recovered suffi.
ciently now to be moved, and has been
transferred from The Queens Hospital
TO Lanakila Home, but visitors, save
members of her fomily, are denied.
Murderer Not Found .y
The murderer, so far as known. has
NOT been found by the police. though
several arrests have been made az diff
ferent times and many clews have been
traced. Apparently none of these
has been sufficiently definite to lead
TO the slayer,s identity.
Ogawa, discussing his sisters story.
yesterday, was inclined to think that
Investigation Of this phase Of the affair
might lead to important disclosures.
and said he would repeat il to the
| police today.
Immediately after the murder was
discovered Fujimoto, brotherlin.law
Of Tome Emoto, was apprehended un-
der strong suspicion, but apparently no
reliable proof of his guilt has been re.
yealed since then.
FuJim0to Was Guardian
Fujimoto had been Tome Emoto q
guardian, and the police were informed
that on many occasions he had beaten
her cruelty, the mistreatment becom-
ing 80 severe that othassHinterfere
and she was taken from5his house.
That was two or three months before
the murder. A few weeks before the
tragedy she married Hiroki Emoto, q
chauffeur, and this aroused the fury of
her former guardian.
On the evening preceding the crime
II was said that Fujimoto and Emoto
had met and effected reconciliation,
and in celebration of the event the trio,
together with several OTHER men and
women, Joined in a banquet at the FIJI.
jimoto house in another part Of the
lefty. The festivities continued until
late hour, and il was thought that
the Emoto couple were attacked almost
Immediately after they had returned
home and gone to bed. -5s. ~ h.
Crime Was Atrocious ~a* a
| The police who visited the house in
the emergency ambulance ut two
o'clock the morning Of August IL de-
clared the assault was one Of the most
gruesome they had witnessed Tho.
man had been nearly hacked to pieces.
| Tome evidently had managed TO get
from the bed to the door after the
murderer departed and her means at
tracted the attention of a passerby.
y M,hen the police Ambulance arrived she
I was unconscious, and for several days
afterward she lowered between life