The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-08-08
, Dispute Over Alleged Gambling
Debt Ends In Fatal Quarrel
In Restaurant
KING STREET CROWD SEES
STEAMBOAT SAILOR DIE
Japanese Assailant Arrested and
Found Slightly Wounded /.
'4TIV0)2 Upon Breast

Oliver w. Paakahili, second mate Of
the steamer Maui, is dead in the
morgue. and Takinui Takishi, his slay.
er, is in a cell.
The Japanese, who is a package boy
aboard the Inter Island boat of which
the dead man was second mate, shot
Oliver shortly after nine CLOCK Sat
urday night in room above restau,
rant and barber shop on King street,
near River, following quarrel that
originated over an alleged gambling
debt. ..,
For some little time there has been
bad blood between the Chinese. Ha,
waiian second mate and the Japanese
package man, the latter being given a
reputation by his shipmates that is not
much to his credit as keeper of the
peace. Saturday evening the pair
were seen together in the vicinity OF
the restaurant and barber shop on the
n'akai side Of King street, Eva of the
fishmarket, and are known to have had
All alteration involving money.
Accustomed 10 Gamble
Both had at various times INDUCED
the pastime of what is known to mi.
tiates as "seven-eleven," playing with
dice for money. They had played
aboard ship and took numerous oppor.
tunities to try their skill ashore. No
one of the many associates of the two
suspected, however, that there existed
such animosity as might terminate in
a tragedy. The shooting stunned the
friends of Paakahili, for he was we'll
Ii ked by his comrades aboard the
w uyhn -
town. He was married, and leaves a
widow and three children at 1900 Ii.
iha street
Takiuui was arrested a few minutes
after he put bullet through the sec.
ond mates head, and was taken at
once to the police station. where he
was first handed over to Police Sur.
geOn ID. G. Aver, for the Japanese de.
clared that he had been stabbed by the
man whom he had killed, asserting that
be had used his gun only in self.
defense.
Talkinui's Outs Slight
Once under the bright clcctrics Of
DR.. Ayers headquarters at the city re-
ceiving station, the Japanese was
quickly examined, the expert fingers
of the police surgeon speedily uncovs
ering such wounds as Takinui had. His
story of having been stabbed dwindIed
to two long, superficial cuts, hardly
more than scratches, across his chest,
and couple of slightly deeper cuts
across his left forearm.
Police officers were present while the
doctor was making his examination and
cleansing and otherwise giving his at.
tentiOn to the cuts. Meanwhile the
man with blood on his conscience kept
up rapid fire of talk of how the
event occurred. He told his story over
and over again, probably sensing the
disbelief that was registered in the
faces of some of those who heard him.
He was asked what he had done
with the revolver with which he had
killed Paakahili, and he replied that
he had left it in the pocket of his coat
hanging up in the restaurant where
he and Oliver had eaten. This was oh,
NiOusly untrue, for the reason that he
bad his coat on his back when he war
taken to the emergency hospital. The
coat had been removed to allow an
examination to be made, and was not
in his sight at the time that he made
this statement. Apparently he had
had several drinks, evidently of sake,
and while he was by no means drunk.
it seemed that he had taken enough Of
the beverage to affect his brain.
Coat Badly Slashed
His coat had been slashed with
sharp knife, but the slashes in his coat
did not correspond to the cuts on his
body. The latter were such as might
have been made by himself with
view to establishing evidence for as
sorting that the dead man had attacked
him with a knife. These superficial
slashes were just such wounds as might
be made by one who, for a strong rea
son, wished to mark himself, and, at
the same time, was afraid of hurting
himself. The cuts across the chest,
while long, were no worse than might
have been made with pin scraped
across the body. No stitches were re-
quired. The cuts on the left forearm
were a little more severe, one of them
calling for five stitches al the hands
of DR.. Aver. A small artery near the
surface had been partly severed and
bled profusely.
Doctor Harbors Doubts
at would be very difficult, " remark
ed DR.. Aver, "fOr me to be brought to
believe that Takinui did not cut him.
self What his reasons may have been
is another story, as Rudyard says"
Takinui declared, over and over
again, that he had shot Paakahih in
self He claims that the
Chinese Hawaiian owed him some
money, though he did not say what for
and that he had on numerous occasions
tried to collect it. When they were to-
gether at the King street place on Sat
urday night, Takinui says he asked for
payment on account. For reply, he
says, Paakahili reached for, knife and
slash"d at him again and again. Think,
ing that he was stabbed and that the
second mate would kill him unless he
defended himself the japanese states
that he drew his gun and fired He