The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-02-09

Knockout Drops and Brutal As.
sauIt Are Features of Crime
Committed At Waikiki In Which
, Victim MysteriousIyD isappears
HUSTACE VILLA AROUSED
BY HISTORICAL SHRFEKS
Wife Of Soldier With Face Bat
tered and Clothing Torn To
Shreds, Begs For Protection
and Is Rescued From Fiends
(From Saturday Advertiser

(From Saturday Advertiser.)
II NocKoUT drops brutal
IN assault upon young woman
Sl-.Ln sight, almost, Of the Moana
Hotel; mysterious disappearance of
the victim and a general 49, Oh VINE
slayery'' figure in case which has
been under investigation by the
police for the past eight days, without
any Hight being thrown upon it. O.. :,
' About half-past one on the morning
of Thursday Of last week a woman,
with her face, terribly bruised from
some battering fist, her clothing torn
and disheveled, gasping ana dazed,
raped upon the door Of Hustace villa,
adjoining the Moana Hotel premises at
Waikiki, and called Historically upon
Mrs. L. B. Romagoy, who answered her
knock, for protection.
o.. Don't let them get mel" she cried,
D., over and over again before she could
be Gained down and could tell a con-
nOcted story.
rev, WIFE OF ENLISTED MAN
She said that she was Mrs. Merle
man, wife Of a soldier stationed at
schofisld Barracks, from whom she was
. suing foEa divorce, .Hcr home IN Homo,
lulu, she said, was at the residence Of
Mr., and Mrs. Bob Graham in Emma
street, Graham being, the proprietor of
the barber shop in Alakea street, next
door to the kentucky saloon. She had
called at the barber shop in order to
telephone when she was met by a man
named Turner, whom she had known
casually for some months. This man
had asked her to accompany him to see
lis wife, with whom he had had trouble
which, he believed, the intercession Of
a third party could smooth over.
She got into an automobile with Tur.
ner, who in reduced her to another
COUPLE IN the machine. The other mans
name was o'Brien, but the woman's
nine she did not catch. She heard her
addressed only as Helen
On, the way to the supposed wife Of
Turner the machine was driven to Wal.
XIII and into the grounds of the Wal.
kid Inn, where Turner invited his com
pany TO have a drink. She, the woman
Ssid, between Eobs, took one glass OF
beer. Then she became semi conscious
remembering nothing more definitely
except that she had had desperate
fight to guard her honor.
GETS BLOW IN FACE
II called upon my mother to save
me, " she told Mrs. Romagoy, land the
answer I got was this blow on my face.
Your mother cannot help you now
the man said who struck me. Then he
hit me again and I remember running
and falling and rolling over to escape.
I saw your light and that is why ran
In here. thought some one would be
up who could save me-
The condition Of the woman, says
Mrs. Romagoy, was pitiful. Her hair
was down and filled with dust and sand
burrs. Her dress was ripped to pieces.
sho had lost her slippers and her stock
Ings were torn. Her legs were bleeding
from scratches and her eyes had the
o"k Of one who had been drugged.
She was assured that she was safe,
md an offer was made to telephone to
he police. This the woman begged
hem not to do, stating that II 1t be-
anne known that she was mixed up in
! di5gracefm affair, such as she had
Inwittingly been dragged into, II
Vould hurt her reputation and perhaps
o used against her in her divorce suit,
ienry Hustace then phoned for a taxi
o take the woman to her home In
imma street.
TAKEN TO THE GRAHAM HOME
She was lent a cloak and veil by
FRS. Mary E. Bristol, a boarder at the h
lila, her own clothes being torn 50 a
ably as to make it impossible for her I
} go home without further covering. o
Che was taken TO the Graham home In f
NINA street, back Of DR.. L. r. Gaspar's
'ice, by Chauffeur Lesndar Eeckley, B
'aving tina taxi well on to three o clock f
| the morning. O
That, so far as can be learned, is the o