The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-01-02
SCHOOL SCANDAL
THE WORST YET
Daughter and Pupils at HIlea,
Kau, Accuse Father and
Teacher OF Crime.
tNaIl speelal 70 The Advertlser.l

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HILo, December 29.-For the past
couple Of weeks the county attorney 3
department and Sheriff Pua have been
working quietly on the investigation
of charges, which, it Is feared, may
work out into the worst school scandal
which the Islands have ever seen. The
investigation eliminated last Thursday
morning in the swearing out Of a war
rant against Principal Wilson Of the
school at Hilea, Kau. The charge is
one of criminal assault upon more than
one of his girl pupils.
The Hilea affair was first brought to
the attention of the county authorities
couple of weeks ago, when Lillian
Wilson, the daughter of the principal,
was arrested together with one Ka-
haule Aipu, young Hawaiian, for
committing statutory offense. Ac-
cording to the law, the parties in such
cases may, when they legally marry,
escape the punishment otherwise melted
out on such a charge. 1t seems that
the Wilson girl and her lover tried to
take advantage of this way, out of
their trouble, when they ran up against
an unexpected snag in that the girl g
father declined to give his consent to
the match. As the girl was only seven
teen years of age, no marriage license
could be issued to her, except with the
consent of her parents. The Kau au-
thorities therefore decided to let the
law take it's course, and Lillian was
sentenced to Incarceration in the indus
trial school for girls pending the rest
of her minority.
At this point the plot thickened, for
the girl protested that her father had
been guilty of a serious offense towards
her. The sheriff rushed over to Kau,
and arrived there just in time to stop
the girls being sent to Honolulu in
the steamer.
The sheriff, assisted by Deputy Sher-
iff Kekaula, Immediately proceeded to
make a thorough investigation, during
the course of which statements were
taken from Lillian Wilson and from
four other girls, all young Hawaiians
or part. Hawaiians. The allegations
made by these girls were so serious that
the authorities were for some time UNI
decided what nature of a charge they
should enter The evidence given
spoke in the plainest of terms The
girls stated, one after another, that
they had, at one time or another as
the individual case might be, stayed in
the same room with Lillian Wilson,
when Wilson had given them wine to
drink, after which more serious hap
penings had taken place. The charac'
ter of the testimony was such as to
induce the authorities to press charge
of rape against Wilson. The Wilson
girl named no less than seven school
girls, who, she claimed, had been stay
ing with her and had been victims of
as well as witnesses to her father Is
alleged offenses. She added that her
sister, Violet, was another sufferer, and
that she herself had run away from
home merely in order to escape from
her father
Wilson is an American by birth. He
has been in the Islands many years,
having entered the service of the de-
partment of public instruction in 1894.
He taught for several years at Kala-
pana, where he is said to have had
trouble with some of the parents of
pupils, and has been the principal of
the Hilea school since September, 1904.
He holds a first class primary certif-
cate. His wife, a Hawaiian, has been
teaching in the Hilea school since Sep
TENDER, 1910.