Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-12-19 | Page 11 | Chinese Slain When Mistaken for other Man

CHINESE SLAIN WHEN MISTAKEN FOR OTHER MAN HONOLULU Dec 19 Deputy 19 Deputy Sheriff John Fernandez of Ewa Ewa is sear searching for the murderer of Lum Phi Piu t a Chin Chinese se who was stabbed eight times with a c cane ne knife at W Waipahu and who died two days later of ot of his w wounds According to the local po police police po- po lice a J Japanese Is suspected of the crime Lum Flu Piu had been an of the Waipahu plantation for tor about ten years On the the night night of ot the murder he wont went to buy meat soup from a Chinese soup vendor The vendor did not have enough and asked Lum Piu to mind his wagon his wagon while whilo he went to the market market market mar mar- ket to purchase some meat While the vendor was gone two Chinese Chi Cht- ne nee nese c came canie e up to buy uy soup As Lum Phi Piu was serving the second one a a. man jumped out from some nearby shrubbery shrubbery shrubbery shrub shrub- bery and slashed him eh eight ht times with witha I a a. Weapon believed to have been a cane knife The assailant made his escape I