The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-26
YEE yOEEOKW|LL
HANG TODAY. FOR
MURDEROFE ENEMY
Korean Gunman viii Hear Words
OF His Death Warrant This
$3.50 Morning
OTHER PRISONERS SING
SONGS TO DOOMED MAN
zee viii Die Protesting That He
Did Not Stay Chez
Won Yer

Al eight o'clock this morning the
death warrant, signed by Governor
Pinkham, will be read to Yee 70
Renk, Korean gunman and convicted
nurderer. He win be hanged few
minutes later. o., 4
He was calm last night--calmef, In.
deed, than might have been expected
from his former nervousness. During
the last two days he has prayed much,
II II was prayer, for he sat in his cell,
silently, head bent upon his breast, and
he sang once or twice. High Sheriff
jarrett asked hIm yesterday whom he
wished to pray for him, and he replied
that he wished no one. 81 innocentl
he said. Sheriff Jarrett summoned
John Woo, Korean detective and inter
,preter, 20 make sure that Yee under.
stood the imminence Of death, and
when zee reiterated that he wished no
one to pray for him, and that he was
innocent, sheriff Jarrett, at his request,
called DIR. Syngman Rhee, who re-
manned with him more than an hour.
Doctor Rhee win return to the prison
this morning. .s,
Other prisoners sang two songs for
Yee yesterday. They requested permits
sion Of Sheriff Jarrett so to do.
The 81 Innocent of zee has been
in strange contrast to the demeanor Of
Lum Dim, Chinese of Hawaii, con-
vieted Of murder, who also is under SEN
tence Of death, but for whom an appeal
is pending. l'v,. 5,gg
what Is the matteri' he asked yes.
terday. why you no hang me, toofv
Sheriff Jarrett formally told Yee of
the date of execution of the death sem
tence last Monday, but he had told.
him a week before that the death war;
rant was to be signed, He had adopted
this means of advising him by degrees,
as II we're. A week ago Monday his
crutches were taken from him, SO that
instrument of possible suicide, which he.
had threatened. Rjonld he removed He
never recovered fully from being shot
by Captain of Police Baker when cap
tured December o, 1915. - ~ 2A i
n Yee escaped from the city Jail in
April, 1918, while awaiting trial on a
charge Of burglary and assault on Max
"hiHaat ~ Jdpdnebe- "A Irlend gave him
drugged drink in a River Street resort.
but Kee fled. and managed to shoot
Japanese before he was captured. He
escaped from the city jail again in
May, 1915, merely walking away from
table, at which he was eating, and
climbing asfence. From May to De-
eember, 1915, many robberies, espe.
cially of Japanese, were laid at Yee .
door. After he was captured a japan.
ese play, in instruments, was given at
the Asahi Theater. based upon his ad-
ventures. This shows to what a de.
gree the Japanese community was
:, r..
A short time before he was captured
zee 70 Keuk killed Chez Won Yer, &C.
oording to the verdict of the Jury that
tried him. Chez was, found dead in
bed in his room at Beretania and King
streets, with a revolver bullet in his
brain. Revenge for information given
to the police by Chez, or an older
grndge, led to the murder, it was held.
"Chee Won Yer is my enemy, but I
no kill him; more better 1 didl' said
zee thirteen months ago.