Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Anakelea, John, Jr. May 15, 1921
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., May 17, 1921
ANAKELEA, JOHN JR.
YOUNG COWBOY PLUNGES KNIFE INTO HEART.  John Anakelea Jr., a cowboy in the employ 
of Lihue Plantation, deliberately took a butcher knife and plunged it into his 
heart at the home of his parents in Hanamaulu at about five o'clock Sunday 
afternoon. Death resulted immediately. At the coroner's inquest yesterday morning, 
the aunt of the boy testified that at about five o'clock Sunday after, she came 
into the kitchen and found him sharpening a butcher knife. She stated that he had 
such a "wild look" in his eyes that she knew he was going to kill himself, so she 
rushed out of the house and called her brother (the boy's father) who came in and 
tried to take the knife away, cutting himself on the hand in the struggle. The boy 
jerked away from the grasp of his father and, placing his left hand behind his 
shoulders (to throw his chest forward), plunged the knife into his heart. The 
young suicide, who was about 19 years of age, had threatened to kill himself 
several months ago. It is stated that he was not of sound mind.

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