Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — Lovers Tie Feet; Plunge Into Sea [ARTICLE]

Lovers Tie Feet; Plunge Into Sea

Hilo, Island of Hawaii. — Strapped together as they leaped iqto the sea to fulfill a double shicide pact, Uye Tafaburo, a Japanese of North Kohala, and Makino Kukuyama, wife of another Japanese, partly failed In their endeavor. Tafaburo w’as drowned but the woman' was pulled from the surf by W. Plnehaka, jailer of North Kohala. Plnehaka saw the pair, with ankles and bodies tied together, leap as one into the sea from the rocks below Hawd, on the North Kohala coast. He scrambled down to the water’s edge just as the tide washed the woman back to shore, the bonds that tied her to her companion having broken. . Later Tafaburo’s body was recovered by Hawaiian divers. The woman’s infant child, wrapped in her obi, or girdle, was found hanging on a tree not far from the spot where she had failed in her attempt at suicide.