The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-09-03
Western Love Making
Idea Too Much for
Eastern Editor.
He Steals Ills Lady and
Now Languishes in
City'S Jail,

kidnapped by two well known Ko-
reans, one an editor of Korean paper !
and the other his assistant, Miss Mary
Linn, Kawaiahao Seminary girl dis
appeared early Saturday evening. All
day yesterday the detective staff of
the local police force searched for her. !
She was finally discovered at three
O'Clock yesterday morning by John
Woo, Korean interpreter and detective
on the special staff.
Now in Jail, facing charges of kid
mapping, preferred against them yes
terday by Chief McDuffie, Seung Sung
Chin, the editor and Kim Sung Yuen,
his assistant, are being held in one
thousand dollars bonds each. Once
more in the care of her friends Miss
Lin is preparing to continue her way
to Korea for which purpose she arriv.
ed Saturday morning from her father IS
home ON Hawaii.
The arrest yesterday morning termi-
mated a weird oriental replica of the
sad, sad masterpiece of the lady novel
list, an occidental romance written in
all the conventional distortion of the
Orient. Even to officers, long accus-
toned to the vagaries of Korean
cases, the facts of this one added new
ones to their long collection as one by
one they came to light in the exami
nation of witnesses last night
He Fails in Love.
Miss Mary Linn was a student in
the Kawaiahao Seminary of good stand.
ing, respected and well-liked pupil
taking to the culture and manners of
the Oceident with the facility and
ease of most oriental girls, Seung Sung
Chin, fellow countryman, infuentiai
with certain factions of the Koreans in
the Territory became a sutton for her
hand, pressin his suit according to the
recognized t. nets Of his own country
and eventually obtaining the assent of
her parents to the match.
Seminary life, however, worked its
change in the young lady's idea of
romance, and while she accepted the
suit she insisted that it be carried on in
the approved methods of her adopted
land. The gallant editor was not 10th
and a bright engagement ring soon
sparkled on her finger to the great
envy of all the other young ladies of
her acquaintance.
$685. Keeps His Compact.
Seung did the honors to the last turn
of the wheel. No attention usually be.
slowed upon a fancee was omitted by
him and he sent her gifts, "took her
out - and other wise paid his court
adeptly in fashion made familiar only
by the influence of la belle passion
which is served the same a la orien-
tails as a la PARTISAN.
Miss Mary, however, insisted upon
her seminary privileges and followed
her well-formed idea of occidental 70.
nance to the letter. In two months
she exerted her woman's prerogative
and changed her mind. The handsome
young editor got bounced, and in a
short sweet little note that would have
done honor to Charlotte Bronte, she
returned the ring and said she didn u
love him any more.
Right there he baked at the occi.
dental mode He had her parents con
sent and he wanted her. Therefore,
avaunt this foolish childishness! But
the young lady had gone to her
fathers home, which is just 2S2 miles
from the office of the Korean Times,
where the short, sweet note was event.
ually delivered and where his ale.
glance to the ways of his adopted
fathers was cast bodily overheard, bag
and baggage of tradition with it.
He Lays His Plans.
He could do nothing, however. She
undoubtedly prepared to put into prac'
ties which had reduced the Oahu edi
tor to such state of mind. He learned
though that having completed heI
course, she was to revisit her native
land shortly. So he played little
waiting game adj his own. Every
steamer that came from Hawaii was
met by him and according to the story
that developed in police headquarters
yesterday, not until he was convinced
that every passenger had left the shiT
and that she was not among them did
he return to his Office.
But he missed one boat-the Mauna
Kea, Saturday morning, and Miss Mary
was ON the Mauna Kea.. He soor
learned about it and calling upon Kin
Sung Yuen he chartered a hack and
set on, Ia the evening he found hel
in the home of friend in the rear OF
the Korean National Association build
ing on Miller street.
He Asks Her 10 Wed.
Furilye oriental schemes lurked IN
his head when he entered her room, al
though 10 the boutonieTe in his lape
he WIS as fnstidiOnsly modelled ON hel
Z" idealN ms she could very well wish
lie asked her 20 90 out with himi askeC
her, in short, to 30 out and get mar
red,
But Mary's adherence 20 her pro
gram WAS without d flaw She said shi
AID not have any clothes and anyway
she didu't love him,
Then seung did foolish thing, W
deliberately stripped himself az an,
semblanoe of Maiu street gallant ans
seized his lady love by The hair o
her head 40 called MS assistant AN,
he afn seized her nnd the two pa
her in a haek ana an THREE disap
peaTed This ip Whist the polifp nAper
Ia pIose Wiih the AID VI witnesses tho
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