Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Fie, Mah September 11, 1916
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 9-12-1916
FIE, MAH
KOLOA CHINAMAN HANGS HIMSELF.  About three o'clock Monday morning, the body of Mah 
Fie, Chinese, aged 40, a poi pounder and pork seller of Koloa, was found hanging 
to a rafter in the room occupied by him. Dr. Waterhouse, who was summoned promptly 
to the scene, decided that death had occurred two or three hours earlier. Deputy 
Sheriff Henry Blake empanelled a coroner's jury, and suicide was given as the 
cause of death. Mah Fie used opium to excess and was a chronic gambler. Sunday he 
was out making his rounds, selling pork, and collecting for it. He took in $22.75 
On his way home he reached a place in which gambling was going on, and the 
temptation to increase his fortune was too great for him. In place of winning, 
however, he lost all of the money he had collected. Arriving back at his place of 
business, he confessed to his immediate employer to having gambled all of the 
day's collections away and received a severe rebuke for it. About midnight the men 
in the poi factory appeared for work, cooking taro and making poi. Mah Fie did not 
show up. After about three hours, the other men became alarmed and went to his 
room; to find him hanging dead as above stated.


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