Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-26
DOOMED men FRET AS HOUR
FOR, EXECUTION, IS DELAYED
Gabriel and Florencio Go Calmly Enough to Gaows But For
rner Fainfs When Moose is Placed Around His Neck -
Latter Sheds Tear as Death Warrant is Read
"a ~OODBY YOU all. am sorry.
Please excuse me for all trouble
have caused for Won

l(f ~ooDBY you ALL Il am sorry.
| Il, Please excuse me for all trouble
have caused for you.n
Spoken in firm voice that betrayed
no CULVER OF muscle or nervousness
of mind, Florencio BoneIla, co-mur-
derer with Gabriel Yerver of the Jap.
anese storekeeper. Hayashibara at
Kaneohe, last August, uttered these
words through an Interpreter this
morning at 9:45 o'clock--his last
breath on earth. The straps were then
placed around his arms and chest. his
knees and ankles and eight minutes
later he swung into eternity--in final
payment for his share in the brutal
murder.
Both Florencio and Gabriel went
gamely to their death. The stolidity
with which they met their fate aroused
comments of sheprise from eren the
prison attaches of the territorial jail
whose softer sentiments have been
blunted by constant contact with the
hardened scenes of life and immediate
association with similar executions.
Shaking hands with the six other
members of death. row. Flerencio
and Gabriel submitted calmly to what
was on the pHftsef others. trying duty
the tying of the death straps about
the bodies Of the condemned men
Then led by High Sheriff Jarrett and
their spiritual aisfser Father Valen
tin. the doomed men marched bravely,
aided by prison guards on either side
OF them. the few feet through the
prison walls to the gallows erected
in the prison courtyard where were
gathered some 100 spectators and Of
ficials.
Only once did either man falter.
Florencio, following. the reading of the
death warrant by Sheriff Jarrett and
its Interpretation through him, gave
way to emotion as be Was led back into
his cell to spend his last Ave minutes
on earth. AS he stood with folded
arms. hearing through the thin bars
OF his cell the words of condemnation
.fc- his comrade, Gabriel, as pro.
nounced by Sheriff Jarrett, tear
welled into his eyes and flowed down
his cheek, Seemingly as if ashamed
81. being guilty iof a display of sent.
ment, he seized q prison towel, and
ibrusquelT brushed the tear aside.
Then res1ming his normally stoIidity
he stood with folded arms during the
reading OF the warrant.
Gabriel. on the other hand, falteted
only at the very last Not word
had he uttered; not an Indication of
weakness had escaped him; through
all the painful proceedings preceding
the execution he had maintained an
air OF Indifference to the fate that
hung over him. But with the black
cap over hts head and as the execu-
toners were adjusting the moose about
his neck he collapsed in a semifaint.
He never had time to recover. In q
second or two the trap was sprung
and his body, floating willow-like un.
der the force of the drop. oscilIated
to and fro beneath the gallows.
Tense indeed we're the hours of
last night and early morning in the
lives Of the two. condemned men. But
while an inward nervousness gripped
their souls. not an outward clew or
their mental perturbation was mani
fest. Stretched on their bard hads