Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-08
VAUDEVILLE MAN
FREED BY JUDGE;
POLICE ON HUNT
De 0ria's Charge That He Was
'Jobbed" Denied: Held Be-
cause Of Girls Story

After considering thu case over
| night Judge MOnsaTrat this morning
| dismissed Walter De Ori3, Naudc-
/ willie performer, charged with assault
and battery on Lizzie Tells, q l3-year-
old girl. the afternoon Of February >,
at Waikiki. De Oria was arrested
in company with the girl by Police
man Kramer and claimed he met her
accidentally and brought her some
food because she said she vas hungry.
The evidence on the stand charged
that the girl had not only been hug
ged and kissed by De Oria, but that
he had made further advances to
her. testimony by one witness. W
kealoha. being that the man acted
improperly. 1t appears that previous
to meeting De Oria at KapiOlani park,
the girl, according to her own story,
had met another man. a half-white,
downtown, accompanied him to the
park at his solicitation, and there was
assaulted by him. Later De, Oria
came along and began talking to her
and II was then. according to the tes-
timony. that he made his advances.
An article published this morning
charging that the detective bureau
had taken no steps to apprehend the
man who actually assaulted the girl,
and had arrested and held De Oria to
save its face" is emphatiCally de-
MED by the police authorities
Captain of Detectives McDuffie
says that after he had told Sheriff
Rose what the girl said about De
Oria-that is, the story of his improp
er advances-the sheriff told McDuf
fie to consult the county attorney.
Deputy Attorney Chillingworth in
structed McDuffie to enter charge
of assault and battery, which was
done and De Oria was held. ..
Chillingworth also said that Claud
ius Mcbride, attorney for De Oria, Of
fered to have his client plead guilty
if the judge would assess only a $40
fine, saying that De Oria would get
out of the country. This, says Chill
lingworth, he himself would not as
sent to- declaring that it was up TO
the court to fix the fine. Those who
were in police court yesterday say
that Attorney Mcbride then confer
red with Judge Monsarrat in the
Judges private office, and that after
the case had been tried the judge took
1t under Amusement The upshot was
the dismissal of the case by Judge
Monsarrat this morning.
1T is not true that we are not try
ing to apprehend the man who as
saulted the girl" said McDuffie this
morning. She didn't know his
even give good de-
scription, but finally said that he talk !
ed with the conductor of the car on
which she rode. We have endeavor- |
ed to get into communication with |
this man and he was to have come |
down this morning. It has taken sew |
eral days to trace the man because |
the girl is very ignorant and can tell
us practically nothing of him"
At the hearing of the case against |
De 0ria yesterday afternoon, Lizzie |
Tells testified that she met man in |
the public library and with him went I
to Kapiolani park, where he assaulted |
her. She left the park, and went to |
lot In which is the home of Hawaii |
an, near the Beckley residence on
Waikiki beach, and was sitting among |
some trees crying. when De Oria came |
up. He went to store 10 get her |
to eat, she said, and while |
he was gone a Hawaiian named Kea. |
loha came to her and made some ad |
vances She told him to go away, and |
he did, but came back with police. |
man, according to the girls story, and !
when De Oria returned the policeman |
her and De Oria.
The Tells girl said De Oria Rugged |
and kissed her before he went to the |
store. /
On the stand keaIoha said he did |
not make any advances to the girl. |
but admitted he asked her to go home
with him.
Attorney C. H. McBryde, who ap-
peared for De Oria, denounced the de-
tective department, and said they tried
TO railroad" De Oria because they /
could not find the man who was really
guilty of assaulting the 13-year-old
girl