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...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 criminal case-Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, the big-blue-eyed, 20-year-old wife of the naval lieutenant...
...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...
...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...
...space, time and the laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless; he never fails. Best of Mickey Mouse competitors is Koko the Clown, of Fleischer Bros.' Out-of-the-Inkwell Series. Others: Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables, Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat, War ner Bros.' Looney Tunes...
Beecher's Brook was the next obstacle, a wide stream with a hidden takeoff. Coyote fell here. Freddy Guest's Koko fell into the ditch head first and Amber-wave, one of the favorites, fell after him. The rest were all closely bunched with Billy Barton, Darracq and Bright's Boy out in front. The eighth jump is the Canal Turn, a thorn fence five feet nine inches high with a six-foot ditch on the take-off side and an 18-inch guard rail in front of the ditch. Eighteen horses fell as if a machine...