The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-19
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.l1G((NFEgSES CRIME
Keaw Keawekane Tells Police
How Ne Slew Two Lads
In MaRlki Home ba6ihiel

heaWl hehhehhne, the Hawaiian boy
who confessed yesterday noon that he
had murdered George and Kama Kanoa
January 8, was booked az the police
station in the afternoon on a charge
OF first degree murder. The complain.
ant was Chief Of Detectives McDufie.
ICeawekane will be arraighed in police
court this morning, and viii be bound
over TO the grand jury, which win meet
tomorrow. He has retained Lorrin An
drews as his attorney.
He is younger than any other muir.
derer of the last sixteen years. al least
so Chief MSDufie said. He is between
sixteen and seventeen years old. ae
eording to his statement and that Of
his mother, although the chief believes
he may be older. Felieiano Hirano. ONE
of three Filipinos hanged here October
IS, 1918, was twenty.one years old
On Chief McDufie' 3 desk last niobt
there was puzzle box. On the naste.
board cover was drawing OF two
dogs; on the Inner cover were the sntne
dogs and a flock of sheen. This Oame,
is played by fitting the pieces together
TO form a picture. 'atffasS
Blood On Puzzle Il
On one Of the pieces. in the m;ast
Of the forehead of sheep, there was
q drop of blood. ~ !
II was because Of this puzzle oame
Keawekane said, that the Robt began
that ended in the killing of two boys.
nine and thirteen years old, BY one only
a few years older. The drop OF blood
was the only stain on the children =
picture puzzle. fe 81 ~ ghh
4 When the Kanoa boys went 10 their
home TO take poi there. as diyectad
by their mother, they first put water
into the poi and then hegan to play
the game with Keawekane. Kama.
nine years old, said that Reawekane
was q crook, and struck him with 3
stick, the confession went. Kama
threw the larger or two axes at Kea.
wekane. George went outside the,
house and got the smaller axe.
Keawekaie struck him with the axe.
felled Kama when he screAmed ana
made sure Of the deaths With other
blows. t$s si.s BSs} 7sJ,lFFH ON'
Told HIS Own Mother 4a
This done, he told his mother. who
vas Riekipg beans On the hillside above
M lqklkf valley, OF the slaughter:
chaAged his trousers, which had been
stained with blood, and accompanied
the mother Of the dead boys to the
house Three thpds, which Mrs. Kanoa
had heard and which were coniectured
to have been the blows with the axe.
were the sounds of his jumping over
the bodies, so as not TO step In the
pools of blood, Keawekane said. This
happened when he ran ahead of the
mother to the house. -. w. r
! The two axes. ownership of which
had been Uncertain, belonged to the
elder KanOa, Chief McDuffie ascer.
tanned yesterday. o.: rrF. =. ..f !
keawekane made his confession
without display of emotion. Chief Ne.
Duffie, City Attorney A. NJ. Brown, De.
tective Sergeant Kellett and a stenoe
rapher heard it. McDufie said that
he was told that Keawekane was read,
to talk whereupon he got the comics.
sion. When Keawekane saw his moth.
" .lSStpihuy hio Oycb. were ury, Dut
tears did start when his brother ap.
peared." ~ 4. '.s.. ..' -
:. The mother had not admitted any.
thing, although her son told her of the
murder, and both she and he said that
they saw men near the Kanoa house
While Keawekane and Mrs. Kafioa
were climbing the hill to the house, he
exclaimed that a man with an axe in
his hand was leaving II, and Mrs. Kea.
wekane also told Of having seen men
nearby. Chief McDufie said that he
had combed the valley and that no
such men had been seen by others. /
Although he admitted that Keawe.
kane was uneducated, Chief MeDufie
said that he was Intelligent enough and
not without some cunning. as was eyi.
denced by his careful tying up of tho
puzzle box after the murder. '...f
J, Chief McDuffie had devoted praeti.
cally his whole time since the murder
to the case. He ran down several
clues which might have involved 9th.
ers, but all led to nothing, which
strengthened his conviction that Kea.
wekane was guilty. This was proved