Word: kahahawai
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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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...
...cabling the mainland truthfully stark accounts of conditions. Native attacks on white women became so prevalent, protection by the native police appeared so ineffective and bungling, that admirals in charge at Pearl Harbor publicly announced that Oahu was unsafe for the wives of naval officers. Then came the Kahahawai murder?apparently a blinding flash of white revenge...
Honolulu police officers piled up a damaging case against Mrs. Fortescue and Lieut. Massie. The motive for murder seemed obvious. They reconstructed the killing thus: Kahahawai was lured into the sedan, after Mrs. Fortescue's identification, by means of a faked warrant bearing the seal of the Chemical Warfare School in Maryland. He was taken to the Massie cottage in Manoa Valley where he was put into a tub of water, shot and allowed to bleed to death. His corpse was undressed and wrapped in bed sheets from which all laundry marks had been clipped. To support their theory...
...Fortescue is ever brought to trial, few whites in Honolulu believed that she would be convicted of a part in the Kahahawai murder. U. S. residents might deplore the stupidity of her alleged crime and its bungling methods but most of them at heart fully sympathized with her desperation in behalf of her daughter's honor and were ready to give her their moral support. Last week no less a per son than Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operation in Washington seemed to give Lieut. Massie a friendly pat on the shoulder when he declared...