Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Yotando, Yachiya 23 1918
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 3-26-1918
YOTANDO, YACHIYA
JAPANESE GIRL SUICIDE - FRANTIC WITH GRIEF BECAUSE OF TROUBLE, SEEKS SURCEASE IN 
DEATH.  Yachiya Yotando, a Japanese girl 21 years of age, committed suicide at 
Waimea early on Saturday morning. She has been serving as a domestic in the family 
of Karl Roendahl, manager of the McBryde Sugar Company's store at Eleele. She was 
called a very beautiful girl. She was born on the island and spoke English 
fluently. Her father and mother live at Mana. Yachiya was at the Roendahl 
residence early in the evening and put the children to bed. Without the knowledge 
of the family, however as it later developed, she phoned to Waimea for a car to 
meet her at the road at 11 o'clock. The car was there on time, and the girl 
arrived in Waimea about midnight. She alighted in front of Bishop & Company's 
bank. Where she passed the early morning hours is not known, but at about 5 
o'clock in the morning the girl's sister heard violent coughing outside of the 
house and recognized her sister's voice. She investigated and found the girl in 
great pain. Yachiya told her sister that she had taken ant poison. The sister took 
her into the house and sent for a Japanese physician, who pronounced the case 
hopeless. The girl lived but a very short time after she was discovered. The 
stomach was removed with the intention of sending it to Honolulu for an analysis 
of its contents. The evidence that the girl had procured and taken ant poison was 
later, however, definitely determined. Further examination of the body developed 
the undoubted cause of the girl's suicide. The blame for her condition is said to 
attach to a Japanese who has a wife, the wife now being in Japan. Yachiya has been 
receiving letters quite frequently of late and is said to have received one the 
night before she killed herself. 


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