Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-26


night speeding on Kalakaua avenue
toward King street
was staying at Union Mill took off
the coat and shirt outside the house
The others stirred hut were too sleepy
to pay any attention.
After this he got fresh clothes and
threw the old ones away. He took
bath and about II o'clock other Fill
pinos came, rousing up the room for
a gambling game. The game lasted
until morning.
The next day. Saturday. news reach
ed the camp of the murder. The re-
port was spread that a Japanese
chauffeur stated he had seen Fill
pino in the vicinity about l o'clock,
but couldn't say who it was. Garcia
relates the conversation he had with
this Japanese on the day of the kill
Ing.
At $3.50 Jose Belineuva was placed
under arrest. The police walked him
around the camp about 4 o'clock that
afternoon. Garcia saw him and heard
him protesting to the plantation boss
against the arrest. Beriong had in
sisted Jose was the guilty one.
Il saw them put handouts on Jose"
says Garcia, land l was afraid, yet
knew nobody but myself and GOD
knew the real murderer On Sunday
the police rounded up about 500 Fill.
pinos who had not been working Fri
day. | was among them.
Il protested, telling them that they
could not arrest me without a war
rant. l declared knew the law as to
that. They told me to 60 in and get
on some good clothes. | went in and
dressed but when came out they had
gone"
One of the weird features of the
story is Garcia's tale Of a dream he
had. He thought Jose was about to
be hanged and he himself rushed to
the rescue and admitted his own guilt.
At another time the story spread that
Jose had been hanged but was not
killed, his body protesting the wrong.
Il was npt Ptt Garcia whS in the
Hild jail latter the killing of 1.-THE Ho-
nokaa Japanese that he learned Gov.
ernor Pinkham had committed the
sentence to life Imprisonment.
When he reached Oahu prison he
saw Jose one day. He had known
him before on Hawaii when they lived
at the same camp. He asked Jose
how he was getting along. but Jose
refused to answer him, only telling
him to keep quiet.
II did the killing and | am willing
to suffer for it," declared Garcia, "but
Jose is innocent. He had no part in
the crime. He should not spend his
life in prison.
Came Here in 1912
Garcia tells remarkable tale of his
wanderings These took him first
from his home town in the Philippines
to many villages there and later here
over the various islands. He reached
here on the Mongolia, arriving on
January 10. 1912.
He went to Union mill for two
months, Puako for one month, and -
Wailuku, Maui, staying two weeks. He
has been for brief stays 10 Puunene
HamakuapokO, Haiku, .PapaaIoa,
where he contracted for a months Job
of cutting cane, back to Union mill to
work day and leave. He went to Ko-
hala in 1914, staying about four
months, and back to Union mill again
1t was this last time that he became
acquainted with Harriet Humane, he
says.
Garcia says the awfulness of his
crime and the TACT that another man
was being sentenced for it weighed
heavily on him. One time he shaved
his head as form of repentance and
those in the village laughed at him.
He told them it was Gus .omary for
him to shave his head once a year.
Once some months before the muir.
der of the girl she told him to come
to her house at o'clock in the night
he says. He went but she was asleep
end he returned to camp. Garcia has
never been married, he said today.
He told carefully of the killing of
his rival in the Philippines. They were
both wooing the same maiden, he says,
and Gabriel has threatened to kill him.
Garcia or Balahadia took the initiative
and struck him down at night in
dark street. He was living then with
his parents g No 80 Lcreto street, In.
terror 60. Meth II the girl nor his par
epts ever knew that he was the muir
derer. A year later he came to Ha.
vail.