Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Manimani, Makuhani Puntlei January 24, 1922
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 1-31-1922
MANIMANI, MAKUHANI PUNILEI
HAWAIIAN BOY KILLED BY STRAY BULLET.  Makuhani Punilei Manimani, a Hawaiian boy 
aged 19, was accidentally killed while hunting last Tuesday morning in the Kahana 
valley, a branch of Olokele. He was shot accidentally by his uncle, Robert Nawai, 
who was hunting with him. According to Nawai's story, the two men were goat 
hunting and sighted quite a large band of goats on one of the ridges running out 
of the valley. Nawai told the boy that he would climb the ridge and get behind the 
goats while the boy stayed about where he was and Nawai would drive the goats 
toward him. This was agreed upon. Nawai then climbed the hill behind the goats and 
shot one. Part of the band ran down the hill toward the spot where Nawai had left 
the boy. The rest of them ran straight down the ridge at about right angles to the 
course taken by the others. Nawai fired several shots at this band but failed to 
hit any. He then started down the hill towards the spot where he had left his 
nephew, and he wondered at the time that he had heard no shots as the goats had 
practically passed over the spot where he had left him. When he arrived there, 
Manimani was nowhere in sight. He called out for him and was answered by a hail 
high up on the ridge. He climbed up and found the boy sitting on the ground 
holding his side. Manimani told him that he was shot, and Nawai thought at first 
he was fooling but soon saw that the boy was telling the truth. Instead of staying 
down on the side hill as he had planned with his uncle, the boy had climbed the 
hill and waited up on the ridge. When Nawi fired at the goats that had run down 
the ridge, he had hit Manimani in the abdomen. Nawai tried to carry the boy down 
the hill, but the boy complained that it hurt him too much, so he was forced to 
leave him while he went for help. He went to the boy's home which is a kuliana in 
Olokele valley. He returned with the boy's father, and they brought along a horse 
to carry the boy home. The time consumed in the trip for help had taken about four 
hours. When they reached the spot where Nawai had left him, the boy was barely 
conscious. He told the father that the shooting was an accident. The father and 
Nawai then started to carry him down to the horse, but he died before they reached 
it. A coroner's inquest was held in Waimea on Wednesday evening, and the coroner's 
jury brought in a verdict of accidental death. 


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