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

A1I6T considering the case over
night Judge Monsarrat this morning
dismissed Walter De Oria. vaude-
vile performer. charged with assault
and battery on Lizzie Tells, 13-year
old girl, the afternoon of February ).
at WAIKIKI De 0ria 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 was 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
kealoha. being that the man acted
improperly. II appears that previous
to meeting De 0ria 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
il the Judge would assess only SO
fine, saying that De Oria would get
out of the country. This, says Chill
lingworth, he himself would not as
sent to, declaring that 1t was up to
the court to fix the fine. Those who
we're 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
II 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
name-couldn't even give good de.
go enfI M he tall
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 Oria yesterday afternoon, Lizzie
Tells testified that she met man in
the public library and with him went
to Kapiolani park, where he assaulted
her. She left the park, and went to a
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 0ria came
something 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
arrested her and De Oria.
The Tells girl said De Oria Rugged
and kissed her before he went to the
store. >.:..:
On the stand kealoha 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 APP
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.