Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Kanemoto, Tietsuno March 31, 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: K KM hawaiizeis@gmail.com February 4, 2015, 3:35 pm The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 4-6-1915 KANEMOTO, TIETSUNO BRUTAL MURDER IN WAIMEA CAMP. A brutal murder was committed in Waikai Camp near Waimea between midnight and 5:30 o'clock last Wednesday morning, the victim being Tietsuno Kanemoto, wife of Kanemoto, a laborer. The cottage of Kanemoto, in which the murder occurred, is located about 100 feet from the main camp house. Neighbors attest that up to 12 o'clock when the last of them retired, there was no noise in the cottage. At half past five in the morning, Kanemoto and his wife did not appear for breakfast, and at 5:40 friends went over to their cottage to ascertain the cause of the delay. There they found the body of the young woman. Her head had been crushed with some heavy substance, and she was slashed about the head and neck with a knife. A coroner's jury was empanelled and returned a verdict to the effect that death was caused by shock, following fracture of the skull and stab wounds in neck and head and loss of blood, inflicted by person or persons to the jury unknown. Kanemoto was gone and no trace of him could be found anywhere. The police started out on a search, and all of the police of the island were requested to keep a sharp lookout for the alleged murderer. The dead woman was what is known as a "picture bride" and arrived here less than seven months ago. She was 22 years of age, while her husband was nearly 46. Extreme jealousy is believed by friends of the couple to have been the cause of the murder. The body was brought to Lihue on Wednesday, where the woman leaves relatives and was buried in the Japanese cemetery. [] Additional Comments: posted by rms File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/kauai/obits/kanemoto590gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb