Word: kahahawai
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...patrician middle-aged woman pointed a sharp straight finger at a young Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai as he sauntered down the front steps of the Court House in Honolulu one sunny morning last week. "That's the man!" she said...
...bail on a rape charge, Joe Kaha-hawai had just made his daily report to court officers inside. Upon the lady's identification, a young white man stepped up to Kahahawai. flashed a piece of paper with a big red seal on it, ordered: "Come with me." Kahahawai, supposing that he was under arrest, got into a sedan waiting at the curb. The car sped off to a house. A gun was jammed into his ribs. He was forced into a bathroom. A shot was fired...
...wheel, a trim, nice-looking young man beside her. In the back seat sat another young man and, beside him, a mummy-like thing roped up in a sheet. Officer Harbottle ripped open the sheet, was horrified to discover that it contained the naked corpse of Joe Kahahawai, a bullet hole through his chest. . . . Down the road lay Koko Head with its pounding surf from which nothing, dead or alive, ever returns to tell tales...
Thus last week did the Paradise of the Pacific become a restless purgatory of murder and race hatred. The killing of Kahahawai climaxed a long chain of ugly events on the island of Oahu growing out of the lust of mixed breeds for white women (TIME...
...permanent white residents of Honolulu boiled with outrage and indignation. Mrs. Fortescue hurried from her Long Island home to the islands to comfort and help her pretty daughter. Brought to trial for the attack were five brown-skinned young bucks, among them Horace Ida and Joe Kahahawai. The court proceedings were a publicity circus for the half-caste natives. Mrs. Massie testified to the events of her horrible night, identified Kahahawai as the native who had beaten her repeatedly on the ride out of town, had broken her jaw in two places while raping her. U. S. newsmen had decently...