The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-02-26

The second rs he saw Fuller place the
gun to his head and n third shot as
POlolu says he rushed toward the
couple. e.
-Four Shots Fired
However, in relating the incidents
Of the shooting in English he was posi-.
tive of the firing Of four shots, which
the wounds indicate was the case. One
Of these was the report Of the shot
which first attracted his attention and
which it Is presumed wounded the wo-
man in her right cheek. Two he saw
Fuller fire at his head, and the fourth
and last shot was the one which Pololu
believes Fuller discharged at either
himself or the woman, after two bullets
had entered Fuller's head.
That this could be so seems almost
impossible to DR.. Aver, VINO is puzzled
how Fuller had the vitality to fire
even the second shot after the first
shot had entered the mans head, and
presumably his brain. But the number
Of wounds Of the man and woman and
the testimony of the only eye witness
Of the attempted murder and suicide
indicates this was the case. .
Pololu says that jealousy may have
been the motive which drove Fuller to
his wild deed, although he processes no
knowledge of any man who had been
intimately associated with the wounded
woman.
Seek Third Person
The police, however, are certain that
jealousy was what drove Fuller to
take his life and try to kin his wife
and they will attempt to ascertain the
identity of this third person.
1t was last Wednesday night when
Fuller was seen by his neighbor to
have been drinking heavily. At this
time there was a quarrel between the
Fullers, which resulted in her leaving
he home and remaining away until
Saturday or Sunday, according to the
police.
From outward appearances, Pololu,
his wife and friends believed yester-
day the Fullers had become reconciled
md are certain that there was no ad,
litional quarrelling before the shoot.
ing.
In fact this is Verified by the state
ments of the woman to the city detec
tives, whom she told that she had
made up her differences with her hus-
band and that they had kissed each
other just a few moments before the
ragedy. Until just a moment or two
5efore Fuller fred his revolver first
'he and he were in each other s arms,
he says. Then a hesitant denial made
a request of Fuller drove him into
rage in which he suddenly produced
md begun using the revolver, she
painfully told the detectives at the
emergency hospital.
Had Seven Children
Fuller was employed in the store,
rouse Of the Honolulu Iron Works and
) reported to have worked steadily
er were married in Maui fourteen
Jears ago and their eldest child,
boy, is twelve or thirteen years Of
age. The youngest of the seven chill.
tren of the couple is a baby girl just
little more than a year old. The
other five children are of varying ages
from three to thirteen years old.
None of the children was at home
when their father shot himself and
heir mother, although the baby child
vas playing nearby and was cared for
Ifter the shooting by Mrs. Pololu.
Fuller was not much past thirty two
Years. of age, as he was required to
egister for the draft last July.
The revolver used by Fuller was an
Did make of FIVE cylinders and of thir-
y-two caliber. So closely was it
PRESSED to the body of the woman and
nan at the time of the shooting that
t was covered with the partly dried
blood of the couple when brought to
he police station.
Both Fuller and his wounded wife
we're dressed as they had returned to
heir home yesterday afternoon at
bout half past four o clock, fully two
lours before the shooting occurred.