Word: kahahawai
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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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...
...held for murder. The prisoners: Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, middle-aged Washington socialite; Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., her young son-in-law, and E. J. Lord and Albert Orrin Jones, naval enlisted men. The charge: they had kidnapped and murdered a Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai, accused, with four others of mixed blood, of raping young Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, Jan. 18). Arrested fortnight ago by the Honolulu police as they were speeding the Kahahawai corpse to Koko Head, all four had been turned over to the Navy for safe keeping...
...attorneys would make my message public. They evidently believed this publicity would be of some benefit to her. ... If so, I am content to endure the personal notoriety aroused. . . . Unfortunately the Press, without any authority from me, has assumed that I believed Mrs. Fortescue herself killed the Hawaiian Kahahawai to avenge her daughter...