Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Akago, Teruo February 1, 1918
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., Feb. 5, 1918
AKAGI, TERUO
NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED BY BROTHER - LOADED SHOTGUN LEFT IN HOUSE, CHILD FIRES 
IT - LITTLE GIRL OF NINE, COMBING HAIR FOR SCHOOL, HAS LIFE SNUFFED OUT.  A 
distressing accident occurred at Eleele last Friday. Tetsu Akagi, a Japanese who 
drives a wagon for the McBryde store, arose early to prepare breakfast for himself 
and the two children. He saw a number of mynah birds about the yard, he says, and 
loaded a shotgun, thinking he would shoot some of them. After breakfast, however, 
noticing that it was later than he had supposed, he put the shotgun behind the 
door and went to work, telling Teruo, the little nine-year-old girl, to be sure 
and comb her hair and get dressed in time for school. A little before eight 
o'clock, neighbors heard an explosion, and knowing that Akagi had gone to work and 
that the children were alone, went over to investigate. They found the little girl 
lying dead on the floor in a pool of blood, with a ragged wound in the side of her 
head. The little six-year-old boy was crying and told them between sobs that he 
had been playing with the gun and that it went off and shot his sister. He was so 
frightened that he couldn't give a very coherent account of the affair. Deputy 
Sheriff Crowell of Waimea was notified and went to the scene of the accident to 
investigate. He decided that it was an accident, and that there was apparently no 
demand for a coroner's jury. The father and mother of the little boy and girl are 
both dead. Their father was Akagi's brother, and the latter took his brother's 
children to raise. Neighbors speak very highly of the little girl who met such an 
untimely death. 


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