The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-02-26
HAWANANSHOOTS I.
wife AND himself,
DYING IN HOSPITAL
Bloody Tragedy In Kakaako
Comes As Aftermath Of Quar-
rel Inspired BY Liquor
COUPLE HAD MADE UP D..
SAYS ONLY WITNESS
After Wounding Woman and Then
Self, Man Fired Another Shot
At Her As He Lay on the Floor

Jonn EuleT, m empIOye OF tine mono
lulu Iron Works, shot and seriously
wounded his wife, Mikahala Fuller
shortly after six clock last night. He
then fired two bullets into his own
head. While o neIghbor was trying to
stauncb the flow Of blood from the
woman 3 wounds, Fuller, lying bleed,
ing on the floor, fired another shot at
, her,,
Mrs. Fuller, although she has two
bullet wounds in her head, is expected
to Rive, unless infection sets in.
Jealousy Of an unknown rival, and q
grudge resulting from a vicious domes,
tic quarrel of last Wednesday night
when Fuller was drinking heavily, is
the motive the police give for the trng,
edy. The woman he attempted to muir
der had been his wife for fourteen
years, and was the mother Of his seven
children.
William Pololu, n Hawaiian employed
as q packer by May & Co., was the only
witness Of the tragedy, although sew.
eral other persons were in hearing OF
the shots, but were frightened away
and failed to aid in stopping Fuller
from his murderous attempt, or in rem
dering aid to the wounded woman and
man.
Not Quarreling
Pololu and his family occupy half of
the one-story, four.room house, at Sec
ond and South Streets, Kakaako, in
which the Fuller family resided. With
several men friends he was sitting on
his lanai when he heard the first shot
fired, following silence of ten min
utes in his neighbor's part of the
house. He is positive the couple were
not quarreling, at least not SO the :Ha
waiians on the lanai a few feet away
could hear their voices.
Pol0ln says that just before the
Fuller part of the house became quiet
the couple could be heard talking
GOOD to each other, as be tells it in
English.
Then without an audible word spOk-
en- III warning there came the report
Of q shot. Pololu jumped from his
chair and started for the Fuller rooms
as he says he realized It was a revol
yer which had made the noise of the
explosion. As he reached the open
doorway, Pololu saw Fuller put a re
yolyer TO his head and fire, and before
the witness reached the couple Fuller
fred again at his head, afterwards
falling to the floor.
Mrs. Fuller was stopped over in a
faihting condition and also fell to the
floor, across the body of her husband
az Pololu reached them. He believed
Fuller was dead, and Immediately par
tally picked up the wounded woman
and began trying to stop the flow Of
blood from q wound which she had
through her right cheek.
Fansr Fires Again
In doing this Pololu says he had his
back TO the wounded man when an
other shot was fired. Whether or not
this bullet struck the woman he was
unable to determine, Pololu says, but
an examination of the woman s wounds
shows she has been shot through the
face and there is another bullet wound
at the back Of her head.
DIR. r. @. Aver was not certain last
night as to whether it was the wound
In the back of the woman's head
where a second bullet had penetrated
or where the bullet which passed
through her cheek came out. This
only a probe Of the woman's wounds
will determine and it was not safe to
make this in the condition she was in
last night.
II Pololu is correct in his statement
that the final shot was fired at the
woman by Fuller as he lay nearly dead
upon the floor, the Hawaiian must have
stretched his arms between Pololu s
legs to iire his last shot
Pololu says that after this last shot
was fred, he put the woman down and
turned his attention to Fuller, mean
while shouting for the assistance of
his neighboTs to which no one respond
cd. He feared Fuller was firing at
him, II not at the woman, and removed
the gun from the man s hand, but plac-
ing Il at only a slight distance away.
as he evidently feared possession of
the gun and removal of it might place
him under police suspicion.
PoloIub testimony is slightly CON
fused, differing as to whether it is told
in English or Hawaiian. His Hawaii
an version Of the shooting, as it appears
On q police report, is that he heard
only three shots. One of these was the
one which he heard when on the lanai.
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