The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-15
WAIKIKI MURDER
Still. A MYSTERY
WITH DETECTIVES
Robbery May Have Been Motive
For Staying Chauffeur and
Butchering Bride
NOTHING HAS DEVELOPED
TO FIX CRIME ELSEWHERE
Suspects In Jail Stick To Alibis
While Mrs. Emoto Is Unable
''.' To Tell Story
(From Sunday AdvprtiserD

may have been the motive that actu
ated the murder of Hiroh Emoto. q
chauffeur in the employ of James
Castle, and the slashing of Tome
Emoto, his bride. Tint is one of the
theories upon which the detectives are
working under the direction of Cap.
toin of Detectives McDuffie, and there
is belief in police headquarters tina:
the murderer, If ever he is found, will,
prove to have been n robber who was
frightened away before he could SO.
cure the loot for which he slew the
chauffeur.
While this is only a theory the 20,
lice are working on, the case is all the
harder because of their slowly slack.
cning grip on NJ. Kanemoto, held as
suspect in the case because he was al
one time, more than two years ago, a
lover of Tome EmOto. w. FujimOto,
bfother.in.law of Tome EmOto, also
held as suspect in the case has an
abb which the detectives of the de.
Partment have not been, able to shake
in the slightest, and the case against
him is crumbling as well.
May Release Suspects
1t was practically admitted yester,
day that the officers would be forced
to release these men unless something
turns up today or tomorrow to
strengthen the evidence against the
men now held by the department
Another hope which McDuffie and
Sheriff Rose have had is apt to prove
baseless. The officers have been count.
ing upon the testimony of Tome
EmOtO herself. Slashed horribly
though she was, the doctors at The
Queens Hospital believed until late
yesterday afternoon that they could
save her, but as she regained con
sciOusness only to relapse swiftly
again into comatOse condition, they
beGame alarmed, and at nine O'Clock
last night admitted that the chances
that Tome would live were then very
slight.
With Tome EmotO dead, the single
living witness to the crime would be
removed and the murderer or murder
ers could breathe easier, for the police
yesterday admitted that they were at
loss how to proceed with the search
for the criminal.
Deputy Sheriff Asch declared that
"We have few feelers out, which
We hope will materialiZe into some
thing better, but just now we are de
voting most of our time waiting for
Mrs. EmotO to recover sufficient
strength to answer our questions and
give us clear statement of how the
thing happened and who it was that
attacked her husband and herself
Fiipinos In Similar Crime
From police source it was learned
that one of the "feclers' Asch refer
red too is the theory that the crime
was committed by a robbcr or robbers
who had learned Of the fact that Emoto
had valuablcs in his house, and entered
the house to rob. The police are so
ing upon the similarity Of the crime
and one committed some wears ago, in
which japanese and his wife were
killed by Filipino robbers, who entered
the home of their victims in exactly
the same fashion used by the murderer
of EmDtO.
The mode oS procedure in that case
and the police are inclined to believe
in the Emoto murder, was to plaster
a strip of paper with mOlasses or some
other sticky substance, stick this to-
the glass Of the window and cut out
the pane with u diamond glass-cuttcr.
The glass was then tapped until it part
ed along the crack, when it was lifted
out by means Of the sticky paper. This
method avoided all danger that the
glass would fall and rouse the owner
or occupants of the house. Something
like this was done at the Castle ser
vaLt quarters after midnight Friday
might. A careful search of the locality
failed to reveal any signs of glass near
the window, through which the muir
dcrer entered the house.
Kanemotos Alibi Is Strong
japanese detectives employed on the
force are inclined to scout the idea that
Kancmoto committed the crime. They
point out the man 5 abb, but which |
they declare is good, rs Il part basis
for this belief, but they say that their
real reason for feeling as they do, is !
that there is Il custom among the jap
anese which demands thut Il jealous
lover who has slain his faithless sweet |
heart, as kanemOto is supposed to have
done, should promptly kill himself by |
ripping open bis stomach Had Kane
motto done the crime of which he is |
suspected they believe that he would |
have removed all doubt of his own
guilt by killing himself as custom in
sIsts that he should
But knn"moto has better defense
than that theory. His alibi grew strong
or yesterday as the police Investigate
ed it. The man claimed that he was
in II tea house in River near Vineyard
street at the time the crime is believed
to have been committed Taking this
statement The Advertiser yesterday St
cured from !. NiShhara, proprietor Of
III" T"m"gawa tea house, and from H.
Fulii, friend Of Fuiimoto, statements
which apparently show that the Jap
mn"se could not have killed Emoto. un-
less in decd the murder was done much
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