Word: kahahawai
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From another sector of the courtroom the jury was scrutinized by a swart, heavy Hawaiian who wore spectacles and chewed gum. A trolley motorman. he was Joseph Kahahawai. It was his son and namesake whom Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and the two sailors were accused of kidnapping last January from the steps of the same courthouse, shooting to death in the Fortescue cottage and then carrying out toward Koko Head, where they were arrested. Father Kahahawai was there to watch U. S. justice done. Near the defendants sat the other figure most involved in the Territory's most sensational...
From the steps of Honolulu's Court House month ago Joseph Kahahawai Jr., accused with four other young native bucks of raping a Naval officer's wife last September, was lured to his death. His corpse was found in an automobile occupied by Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, her son-in-law Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, whose wife had been attacked, and a naval enlisted man. Another enlisted man was later implicated. Last week in Honolulu a grand jury sat to ponder the crime. Just as any other panel controlled by white men from Kentucky to the Ubangi River...
...this time, news of the Kahahawai murder had thoroughly penetrated the U. S., been digested by its hungry Press...
...situated, is not the largest in the archipelago while on Maui and Hawaii, all was serenely peaceful; 3) it was absurd to say that Hawaii had a "race problem," when only a tiny fraction of the mixed population was making trouble. The Hawaii Tourist Bureau cabled that the Kahahawai incident had been played up in a manner "terribly cruel to this self-respecting community and wholly unfair to many races living harmoniously here." White citizens declared recent events were "regrettable"but ridiculed any idea of a serious race uprising in the face of 20,000 soldiers & sailors stationed...
Meantime, the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce voted $5,000 to supplement the Territorial prosecution of the Kahahawai case. The Chamber is still pressing the case against the four remaining men whom Mrs. Massie identified as her assailants, but who have been at large (until public sentiment forced them voluntarily back to jail last week) ever since a jury failed to agree on their guilt last November...