The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-03-08
f|LIP|NO.||iA!|TTEMPTS
|: TO MURDER BABY
NINE MONTHS OLD
Blood Thirsty Savage Is Fright
eneu Away BY Screams Of
Girl and Child Is Saved
POLICE SEARCHING
BUT NO TRACE FOUND
Man Was Apparently Afraid
Alarm Mould Be Given and
Contemplated Bloody Crime

! Alarm Mould Be Given and
Contemplated Bloody Crime
A Filipino was detected yesterday
in the act of attempting to take the
life of nine months old child for APP
parently no other reason than to stop
10 from giving an alarm. Search for
the man was started at once and con
tinued throughout the day and last
night for the man who had been seen
| lettering around the neighborhOod of
Diliha, and Wyllie Streets since last
Saturday morning. ..,. ,,,..,.
1 T.. Screams of n Hawaiian girl who dis
y covered the Filipino in the act or
l. raising lawn sickle to m0rde, the
child was all that deferred him from
carrying out his intentions, it is he.
, lieved by the police and Mr.. and Mrs.
John J. Myers, parents, Of the child
who live at 1890 Eliha Street.
When discovered by the Hawaiian
! girl, who at the time was alone at
the Myers home excepting for the
child, the Filipino had dropped the
baby which he was holding with one
hand while in the other was grasped
the upheld sickle with which he was
/ preparing to strike the ehili.,
Had Robbed House
fs3At the time the Filipino was about
I thirty feet from the front door OF the
Myers home and in the middle OF the
!; yard, where he had carried the baby
4 from aSfront room, where II had been
left asleep. Previous to this the, Fill
4 PING had evidently gone through the
house and robbed II Of some cutlery,
which was later found hidden in bush
7 es near the. house. The girl +bad.in the
meantime been engaged in the kitchen
which the Filipino had avoided enter
4 ihgeN NJ, =
I As the girl began to scream the Fill
pino made his escape, running toward
the stream below Alewa Heights. where
he disappeared Police assistance was
Immediately telephoned for, but neigh.
4 bors Of, the Myers responding first
who armed with any weapon which
they could find, took up the pursuit Of
the burglar and attempted murderer.
A squad of detectives was sept out
from the police station who started
a search through the bushes lining the
stream, but without capture of the
I Filipino being effected, However, q
description of the man was secured
which was given to all the police Of
the Island, with special instructions to
the mounted officers to be on the look
out for the desperate last night, as
1t was thought he might attempt un-
der the cover Of the darkness to re.
| turn to his town quarters.
The attack on the Meyers child and
the robbing Of the house comes as the
aftermath of o series of visits the
same Filipino had made this week with
another Filipino companion to, the
home.
All of these visits, usually between
the hours of ten and eleven in the
morning, we're made under the pretensc
of wanting to buy plants or get laun.
dry work to d.. Only one of the men
has been in the custom of coming up to
the house, the other remaining in the
street outside. But on the visit yester
day morning only one of them was seen
by the Hawaiian girl.
On Wednesday morning the same
Filipino who threatened the life of the
Meyers baby yesterday called at the
! house, when he was told to remain
away by the girl who was again alone
at the time.
After every visit of the Filipino
something of value was missed, but
mostly plants, which were found with
the cutlery sccreted in the bushes near
the home, which it is presumed the
thieves intended to carry away after
night had come.
Following the departure of Mrs.
Meyers from the house yesterday morn
ing about ten CLOCK, the girl put the
baby to sleep in the front bedroom,
from which there is an entrance from
the front lanai, as also to the parlor
and dining room, al of which rooms
were entered by the Filipino. From the
| dining room he carried away rutglass
! dishes from the sideboard and hid them
outside
| The IirI continued her work in the
| kitchen until she heard the cries Of the
| child, when she went to the bedroom to
quiet it. Upon entering the bedroom
she failed to find the child and walk
| ed tGothe front lanai door where she
arrived just in time to cheek the Fill
pinO's murderous, intentions by her
| screams.
Child Badly Frightened
When the girl picked the chilli up
nfter it Was dropped by the Filipino it
was blue and stiff, probably from
fright, and she thought it was dead,
which added to the volume and hor,
ror she put into her screams to summon
the aid of the neighbors, and eventual
| " police assistance.
The weapon with which the Filipino
| intended to murder the child was one
| he had concealed in his clothing, and
which the girl believes was q new one
on account of the brightness Of the
blade.
Meyers, the father of the child, is
radio employee Of the Pearl Harbor
naval station. 49,,