The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-10-11
Third Arrest in Two Weeks Made
Victims Are All Young,
Ignorant Children.
AWFUL RECORD THIS YEAR
This Is What Lynching Parties
Are Formed for in Other
Places.

After holding Hee Kap, an aged
Chinaman, incommunicado for several
weeks, Chief McDuflie has now charg
ed him with rape upon girls under the
age of fourteen and before the police
investigation is completed there will
be three such charges against the man
and one other, considered of minoI
nature by the law, but in which the
victim was little japanese girl OF
seven years of age.
This action on the part of the pc.
lice caps n series of revolving crimes
which have occurred within space of
two weeks. There is now one similar
case before the courts criminal as.
sault upon a baby girl, and one other
case of the same character but where
the age of the victim makes the penal.
| ty smaller.
In the space of seven months in Ho.
nolulu there has been brought to the
attention of the police nine cases of
rape upon girls under the age of con.
sent, some of the girls being little
more than babies. This revolving rec.
ord contains instances of depravity sci.
dom equaled, while, in addition, many
more cases are known, but in which
the parents have not called upon the
police, dreading publicity.
The latest case, that of Hee Kap, is
reported to be one of the worst of the
series. Chief McDuilie and Prosecutor
Brown have worked patiently on it for
several weeks and only succeeded in
satisfying themselves of his guilt after
long examinations of the young vic.
tins.
Two of the girls Hee Kap is &C.
cused of having assaulted are Hawai-.
ians. The other is Japanese girl of
twelve or thirteen while, as stated, the
less serious case against him involves a
Japanese girl of seven.
According to the statements credit.
ed to the oldest Japanese girl, Hee Kap
was accustomed to pay small sums Of
money to his victims, sometimes quar-.
ter, sometimes n nickel. The cases
themselves, as usual, came 10 the no.
tiee of the police IN a roundabout way
that made work upon them matter Of
considerable difficulty.
The Hee Kap cases first came to light
through the disappearance from home
of the two little Hawaiian girls. The
mother reported this to a woman pro.
baton officer and the girls upon their
return home stated that they had
spent the night with Hee Kap, giving
the vile details of their experience. The
girls were taken to the Chinaman 5
house and confronted with him. They
identified him absolutely, but the
Chinaman closed his shop the next day
and disappeared. The police after n
patient search, in which every vessel
leaving the island was watched, locat-
ed him mt Waipahu.
Then came the long search for evi.
dence to coTroborate the testimony of
the little victims 1t was not until the
Japanese girl had been found and had
told of her experience with the China.
man, one of disgusting details. that the
ease seemed to the police to be becom-
ing secure.
This girl testified that she had seen
the smaller Hawaiian girl coming from
beneath the Chinaman IS house with five
cents in her hand. She learned that this
girl had been let down through a trap.
door by the Chinaman and the police
say they have proved this
Chief McDuflic states that while these
four cases are all that are at present
held against Hee Kap, he believes that
there are similar incidents he has not
unearthed. Hee Kap was arrested ten
years ago by Officer Apana on some
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