The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-28
AUTO KILLS WOMAN
ANDSPE[DSANAY
Driver Frank Panaewa Arrested
Later and Charged With
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Hit by speeding automobile, X.
tsagnwa, a young Japanese woman was
INSTANTLY killed. near the corner OF
King and Napai Streets yesterday
! evening about half past Ave o'clock.
Her body was carried 1872 feet by the
force of the collision and dropped be.
tween the Rapid Transit street car
trackS from the left Fender of the ma.
chine, which slowed up only mumentar.
ily, before fleeing toward Kakaako.
Nearly two hours later Frunk Pa
naewa, driver Of Cadillac car No. 2397,
from the Bishop PARK Auto Stand, was
arrested and charged by Deputy Sheriff
julius Asch with SmanslapgKter. Pan
aewa was arrested after he had sought
the counsel of Attorney William Raw.
Inns, whom he has retained to defend
him on the fnnnslahghter charge.
Police and eye witnesses say the
automobile was travelling at high
rate of speed, variously estimated from
thirty to forty five miles IN hour, when
the woman WAS struck She was cross
| ing from the Inauka to the mnkai side
Of King Street and the fender Of The
car caught her in the side, her body
topping over forward where it was
carried until the momentum Of the car
was checked by the applying of the
brakes, when it fell to the street,
where II was run over by the automo-
bile.
Automobile Leaves Victim
As the front Of the automobile was
cleared Of the woman's body. Panae-
wa is accused of speeding his machine
up again and flecting to Ward Street,
where he turned makai to Kakaako.
In Kakaako, the car was evidently
stopped and thd fender Strengthened
and the one or more passengers dis.
charged.
From Raknako Panaewa is said to
have started search for Attorney
Rawlins, whom he found at Just about
the time the police were successful in
establishing his identity Officer J.
BraneO is credited with getting the first
definite clue 10 the identity of the driv-
/ er of the car, from the excited wit
nesses of the accident, none of whom
had been successful in getting the cor
rect number Of the automobile. The
description of the car and the num-
beers given Of the 5000 series suggested
the Bishop stand car, which is owned
by Eddie Lam
At the stand the police secured fur
Their evidence indicating that it was
the Lam ear which was responsible for
the accident and that it was driven
! by Panaewa. A little later Panaewa
was unprecedented.
Motorman Sees Accident
| 1t has been reported to the police, it
is said, that nfter he struck the wo-
man, Panaewa dropped far down in
his seat with his arms shading his
face, as though to escape recognition.
EdZal Markle, Rapid Transit mot Orman,
says he was in about the middle of
the block between Hotel and King
| Streets on Alapai Street, when he saw
the head of the woman fly up in the
air before the speeding automobile,
which had Just passed the corner, but
, it had gotten to the Ward Street cor
ner and turned before he got clear
view.
As the body fell between the street
car tracks il WAS left undisturbed un-
til the city ambulance arrived, which
delayed the car traffic about fifteen
minutes. Emergency Hospital Atten
dant Frank Stevenson says there was
no trace Of life in the woman 8 body
when it was reached a few moments
after the accident. The body was re-
moved first to the emergency hospital
and later to the morgua
Woman Badly Mangled
Several terrible injuries were suffer
ed by the woman when she was hit by
the automobile, any Of which might
| hnUR bnr riIh l,A
was broken in two or three places, she
was bleeding at the nose an indicn
! tiOn that she receiN ed a base frac.
ture of the skull, her left arm was
broken and she probably had serious
internal injuries
AT the time of the accident a broth
err of the dead woman was crossing
King street just behind her, but he
escaped injury Their home is at 602
Beretania street.
For the first time since Oahu went
''dry.' nearly two months ago, booze
/ is held to have been a contributing fac
tor to the automobile accident When
Panaewa was booked at the police sta
tion two hours after the accident it is
said by the police he still showed he
had been drinking.
| AFTER PanneWa was arrested search
was started by the city detectives and
police for a man named Gouveia, who
is said to have been on the front seat
Of the machine at the time the woman
was killed. Another report says there
were several others in the automobile,
at the time of the accident and that
they were all returning from a drink
ing escapade, when the woman was run
| down.
Attorney Rawlins succeeded in get
ting into communication with Circuit
Judge Heen hist night and Panaewa 3
boud was set at $3.50 This the auto
mobile driver furnished about nine
J o clock and he was released.
| - W. 8. 8.