Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Arruda, Joseph "Joe" October 18, 1915
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., Oct. 19, 1915
ARRUDA, JOSEPH "Joe"
PORTUGUESE LUNA COMMITS SUICIDE.  Joe Arruda, a well-known young Portuguese luna 
of Kekaha plantation, aged about 30, committed suicide at an early hour yesterday 
morning by hanging himself to a tree. The young man's father-in-law, Manuel 
Arruda, passing that way at about 5 o'clock in the morning, found the body 
suspended from a limb of the tree and cut it down to find that life had been 
extinct several hours. A coroner's jury heard evidence in the matter last night 
and reached a conclusion of suicide. It is stated that the suicide has been 
drinking freely of late and was quite intoxicated all of Sunday evening. Shortly 
after midnight Monday morning, he came upon the veranda of his house near the 
Kekaha mill and shouted to his wife that he was going out. He passed out of the 
gate, and that was the last heard of him alive. In accomplishing his purpose, he 
threw a rope over a branch of a tree and tied one end to another branch. Fastening 
the other end about his neck, he jumped from the adjoining fence. 

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