Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Tanaka, Tamiko March 24, 1921
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 3-29-1921
BRUTE MURDERS LITTLE JAP GIRL.  The wanton murder of little 13-year-old Tamiko 
Tanaka by Sankichi Ishioka at Makaweli last Thursday morning is one of the most 
horrible crimes yet to be written in the history of this island. Merely to satisfy 
a grudge against the child's father, so it is stated the murderer admitted, this 
beast in the guise of a human being going out alongside the road he knows the 
child will travel to school and sits down and awaits the approach of his victim 
whom he attacks with such viciousness that he breaks the knife off in her tender 
young body. Then he coolly remarks to Captain of Police Oneha, "Me hana make this 
girl, me make no pilkia." Sheriff Rice was notified very soon after the crime was 
committed, which was between 7:30 and 8:00 o'clock in the morning, and left 
immediately for the scene with a coroner's jury. The sheriff proceeded to Waimea 
where, in his capacity of coroner, he held an inquest at which the following facts 
were brought forth:  [several testimonies omitted here by submitter] "That we find 
the deceased was named Tamiko Tanaka; was a native of Japan born in Hawaii, and 
aged about 13 years; that she came to her death on the 24th day of March 1921, 
from a knife wound in her chest, having been inflicted by the hand of Sankichi 
Ishioka, County of Kauai, T.H." The members of the coroner's jury were Frank 
Fernandez, Axel Blackstad, Moku Kahoonei, M. K. Lino, J. Imamura, and Kazuo 
Tamarabuchi. Ishioka is being held in the Waimea jail pending his commitment to 
the grand jury. His hearing comes up today before Judge C. B. Hofgaard. 

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