Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Shinsato, Heiji & Uto 3 1921
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 11-8-1921
SHINSATO, HEIJI and UTO
INSANITY CAUSES DOUBLE KILLING.  During a fit of insanity last Thursday, Heiji 
Shinsato, aged 40 of Kekaha, inflicted wounds on his wife with the family butcher 
knife from which she died the following day. After cutting his wife, he then cut 
his own throat and abdomen, these wounds also resulting fatally. He died about an 
hour and a half later at the Waimea hospital. Sinsato had just returned to his 
home in Kekaha after work and without any warning attacked his wife with the 
knife. Her screams brought in neighbors, and it was then that he used the knife on 
himself with such deadly effect. Sheriff Crowell of Waimea was called and rushed 
both husband and wife to the Waimea hospital. The husband died shortly after, but 
the wife lingered until the next day. It was thought at first that the wife might 
recover, but the shock was too great and she weakened rapidly that evening and 
died Friday. No known cause can be found except that the husband had been acting 
strangely of late, and neighbors claim that he had been showing symptoms of 
insanity. The couple were survived by four children, the oldest of which is 11 
years. It is said that friends of the family intend to adopt the orphans and will 
attempt to do so legally. [


Additional Comments:
posted by rms [Wife, Uto died 4 Nov., 1921]

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