The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-19
THE new JURY LIST OUT WAS FAI PIN NDNAPPEDlT
DEEP MYSTERY OF A CHILD'S
DISAPPEARANCE.
Dramatic Story Which Legal Processes
VIII Seek to Unravel in the Kohala
Circuit Court.

A kidnapping case with as many in
cidents of mystery and dramatic inter-
est in ii as the world wide famous case
of Charlie Ross of twenty years ago, or
of that of the little Ohio girl which
divided public interest with the Span
ish- h-American war in 1885, is to be tried
at the October term of the Kohala Cir
cult Court.
Chong Kyau and Muk Su, Chinese, are
charged with having kidnapped Ng Fai
Pin small Chinese child last Septem-
Der, in North Kohala.
The case has aroused more than usual
interest for the reason that there is con-
siderable mystery connected with the
disappearance of the child as well as
the fact that it is probably the first
case of the kind known in the Islands
IL was on the afternoon of September
u that the child left it's mothers side
to accompany Chong Kyau to it's faith
er's garden. Since that day absolutely
no trace has been secured of the boy.
The most careful search of the sur
rounding country was made, but moth
ing which would throw any light upon
his movements could be found The
child had disappeared as completely as
If swallowed up by the earth. Although
Chong Kyau admits being the last
known person to have been with the
child, the officers have been unable to
directly connect him with the alleged
kidnapping of the little boy. The evil
dence against Muk Su is even less In
eliminating. The circumstances sur
rounding the case were regarded as suf-
ficiently strong, however, by the COM
mitting magistrate to hold both men to
answer in the Circuit Court in the sum
of $500 each, which was supplied.
AN ELDEST SON.
10 ut,
eldest son of Ng Yung, who occupied a
small tract of land on the edge of the
woods above the cane fields of the Ha-
lava and Hohala plantations. The boy
was a little over two years of age, Be
tween the hours of l and o'clock the
afternoon of September 27, Chong Kyau
appeared at the house of Ng Yung. The
latter was absent cultivating a patch
of garden about 500 PAGES distant. The
visit of Chong did not arouse suspIc-
ion on the part of Mrs. Ng Yung, how
ever as the man had called there sew
eral times previously. Nor was she sur
prised when he began to amuse little
Fai Pin. On each of the other visits
Chong had taken notice of the boy and
the bitter had come to look with pleas
ure Tor the coming of the visitor. While
Chong and the child We're together the
man asked the boy to come over with
him to his fathers garden.
Fai Pin did not appear to hear the
remark, and Chong Immediately said,
Come with me and get some guavas."
This the boy readily consented to do,
and hand in hand he and ChonP walked
out of the yard toward the garden. The
mother watched them disappear over q
little ridge about sixty yards distant
She has never seen her child -ince.
What occurred after the pair crossed
that ridge out of sight of the little but,
who was lurking there to take the child,
are matters which are yet unsolVed
Whatever was done was done quickly,
for it was o'clock when Chong with
out the child walked up to Ng Yung
and asked him to go to the house of a
native living near by to inquire about
the purchase of some lumber. Ng Yung
consented to accompany him.
THE ACCOUNTING SEARCH.
They walked back by the same path
which Chong had travelled, and when
100 yards distant from the ridge which
cut off the full view of Yung's hut, took
a trail downwards to the natives
house, nor indeed, did he say anything
about the previous call or the inter-
rupted excursion with the child. After
finishing the business with the native,
Chung went his way, while Yung went
home about o'clock and learned of
the disappearance of his boy.
A search was instantly made. Chong
was also asked what light he could
throw upon the case. He claimed that
after he and the child went over the
ridge, he told the little fellow to run
back home. This was the last he no
tiCed of Fai Pin. He suggested that
the child might have fallen into some
hole and been killed or injured. On the
left side of the path where Chong
claimed he parted with the child the
hVII h NKsaG OF Il frrI, f,,1
search of the vicinity proved beyond
any doubt that there were no holes into
which the boy could have tumbled on
the other side the brush was so thick
that it would have been pactically an
for a weak child of two
years to have made its way through the
heavy growth.
REWARD OFFERED.
1t was further urged that the child
might have made its way to Il waterfall
some 500 yards beyond the garden of it's
father and been drowned The path
leading to the waterfall was much over
grown, and it was claimed to be inn
possible of travel by so young a child.
Besides, had the child gone in this di-
rection it would have had to follow
Chong towards Yung's garden, and nat
urally would have met them upon their
almost immediate return toward the
natives hut.
Yung was nearly distracted over the
loss of his child and offered a reward
of $50 for its recovery alive, and $40 for
it's body. Suspicion became directed to-
ward Chung, and then the father was
asked If it were possible for an accom-
plice to have carried the boy away be-
fore he and ChOng returned from the
garden. Three paths afforded such an
escape, two being close to the spot
where Chong claimed TO have left the
child, 1t was subsequently learned
that about an hour and a half previous
to the appearance of Chong at Yung's
house, Chong and Kuk Su We're seen by
a native walking i'm the direction of the
house, and one of them plainly pointed
in that direction.
A POSSIBLE MOTIVE.
The motive for the kidnapping was
naturally another question which had
to be considered by the authorities. I'm
der ordinary circumstances there would
be no plausible reason for two Chinese
abducting a two year old boy. A
girl of that age might have been desired