Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Kagehiro, Asayo (Obato) September 25, 1917
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 9-25-1917. Note: The husband died Sept. 26.
KAGEHIRO, ASAYO nee OBATA
KAGEHIRO, AZUMA
A WANTON TRAGEDY IN LIHUE CAMP.  A most reprehensible tragedy happened about 5 
o'clock Thursday morning in the Japanese Camp, Lihue, when one Azuma Kagehiro, a 
Hawaiian-born Japanese, killed his wife and then sought to end his own life by 
taking a dose of ant poison. They occupied one half of a double house and his 
parents the other half. Hearing sounds of distress in the upper story, the father 
tried to get into the upstairs rooms but found them locked. He finally got help, 
procured a ladder, and effected an entrance through the upstairs window when they 
found Azuma's wife lying weltering in a pool of blood, her head having been 
battered and mangled by repeated blows of a hammer. She was alone with the baby, 
but Azuma was afterwards found in the kitchen writing from the effects of the 
poison which he had taken. They were both taken to the hospital where the woman 
died shortly after. The man, though still alive at latest accounts, is not 
expected to recover. No satisfactory reason is given for the tragedy. 


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