The Daily Herald

ATTEMPTED MURDER
One Japanese Stabbed by Another.

About midnight last night a Japanese was stabbed in the back by a fellow-countryman in the vicinity of Emma Square. The wound was supposed to be fatal. Capt. Tell and Officer Kauhane brought the perpetrator of the deed to the Station at one o'clock. Marshal Kaulukou accompanied the officers back to the scene in a carriage to attend to the victim.

LATER.

The stabbing took place in a Fowler's yard tenement about half-past 11. A Japanese named Mowriama with his wife and a lodger named Itchnorsy occupied the house, the last named going halves on the rent. They were all drinking China wine together, when a dispute arose. Mowriama jumped up and kicked his wife and then hurled a large knife or dagger at Itchnorsy with but too accurate aim.

The weapon sank deep into the man's back, a little to the right of the spine and above the small.

Later the wife of the murderous Japanese accompanied the wounded man to the house of a countryman named Hatch off Emma street. This is an intelligent man, speaking understandable English, and he went to the Station to notify the police of the occurrence.

Officer Holoua who was on duty called the Marshal and Capt. Tell by telephone, and the latter on arrival went with Officer Kauhane and arrested Mowriama at his house.

The Marshal called Dr. Trousseau to the relief of Itchnorsy, and after the doctor bandaged the wound the man was carried on a stretcher to the Queen's Hospital. He bled very much in the house, and the stretcher became saturated with blood the moment he was placed on it. He would not lie down but sat up held by a policeman and moaning piteously all the way to the hospital. When the bandage was cut off a ghastly wound an inch and a half long was revealed, and Dr. Trousseau said it was in the lung but not so bad as if further down. After putting three stitches in the wound and bandaging it again the doctor found the sufferer warmer and with a better pulse than when at Hatch's house. Then he had pronounced the case fatal, but now said the man had a chance.

While the doctor was busy with his duties the Marshal took a brief ante-mortem statement from the patient, Hatch interpreting and the Herald reporter recording it. The substance is all stated above, except that Itchnorsy said jealousy was the cause of the deadly rage of Mowryama.

At 2:30 all except the hospital officials withdrew, Officers Tell and Kauhane going to take the prisoner's wife home and to find Mowryama's weapon if possible. Both the Japanese are of powerful build and very muscular. The prisoner was bared to the waist when locked up and looked much excited. Being detected later preparing to strangle himself, a guard had to be set on him. He refused to tell what he did with the knife, and the officers went to look for it a second time.