("Kamahele Komo Pukaaniani", Ka Makaainana, August 5, 1895)
The night of July 9 caused great alarm for those sleeping in the house of B. K. Kaiwiaea [Benjamin Kahoopai Kaiwiaea] because of a strange noise at a bedroom window. Kaiwiaea was in Kaupo surveying, so his wife [Rachael Kekela Kaiwiaea] was the only one sleeping in that bedroom. Kaiwiaea’s younger brother Jonah crept out the back door and hid near the front of the house. After a while, he saw J. K. Iosepa [Joshua Keakalani Kekua Iosepa] appear and glance around furtively while walking quickly back to his house. Jonah went back into the house, and demanded his brother’s wife explain everything, but she did not speak. Jonah would thus continue to question Lahela [Rachael Kaiwiaea] once a legal representative could hear everything. The next day, Jonah took Lahela to the schoolhouse for further questioning, and he said that the woman complied with all of his queries. This is the account of the actions of a person who boasted about secretly entering a window to take his friend’s wife. This is the source of much gossip here in Hana, but the troubling thing is that Jonah hid this and did not tell his older brother.
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Hana, Maui.
Below is the article in the original Hawaiian:
Kamahele Komo Pukaaniani.
O ka po o ka la 9 o Iulai, he po ia o ka hoohuoi nui ia e na poe e moe ana iloko o ka hale o B.K. Kaiwiaea, no ka nakeke ano e o ka pukaaniani o ka laua rumi moe, oiai, o ka wahine wale no ke moe ana iloko a o Kaiwiaea, ua hala no Kaupo i ko ana-aina. Nolaila, ua puka malu aku la o Iona, ke kaikaina ponoi o Kaiwiaea, ma ka puka mahope o ka hale a pee mai la mawaho ma kekahi wahi kokoke i ke alo o ka hale, a hala ae la kekahi manawa, aia hoi, ua ike aku la oia i ka oili ana mai o J.K. Iosepa a alaalawa ae la ma o a maanei me ka hele awiwi ana a hiki i kona hale. Ia wa, ua hoi aku o Iona iloko o ka hale a koi aku la i ka wahine a kona kaikuaana e hoike mai i na mea a pau, aole nae kela i hai mai. Ia Iona e noke ana i ka ninaninau ia Lahela, aia ke hoolohe mai la ke keiki a ka loio i na mea a pau. I kahi la ua lawe o Iona ia Lahela i ka halekula o ninaninau hou ai, a ua hai ae oia ua ae ka wahine i na mea ana i ninau aku ai. O keia iho la ka moolelo o na hana a ke kanaka i kaena iaia iho, o ke komo malu ma ka pukaaniani e kii ai i ka wahine a kona hoaloha. He nui ka wawaia o keia mea ma Hana nei, o ka mea apiki nae o ia no ko Iona huna loa, aole hoike i ke kaikuaana.
PUKAANIANI.
Hana, Maui.