Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-27
PICTlRE.BRIDE'
STOLEN REPORT
At j. 5. STATION
immigration Officials Hear
Story and Inspector HaIsey
=. is investigating !
PRETTY. OKiNAvQAN SAID
r.. TO. BE TAKEN BY RUSE
Bona-fide Suitor From Kauai
Arrives to Find His Girl .
Gone With Another

How a japanese spictnre-bride was
stolen from the United States immi-
grafton station last Saturday by q
|countrynan who posed falsely fas her
intended husband Is o. story which ID
stirring the japanese community.
Inspector R l. Halsey. In charge
of the ; immigration station. when
questioned by the Star.Bulietin this
morning, said: -. Is = 50
Il have. heard the reports of this
around here but don't know the
facts" he said. He IL investigating
the reports. e-... -.:s.iI
The story which is told among the
Japanese with circumstantial detail
Is that the girl, q 19-yearold Japanese
OF the Okinawan race, arrived on the
Shinyo Mara from Japan on. June Is
and as usual went to the Immigration
station, where the .spicturesbridese
are detained until claimed by their
husbands-to-be, The girls name IL
given as Ushi Isliihara Her Intended
husband Is said to be one Shoden
Ishikawa Of Keksha Plantation,
Kauai. n. -. -. Z -. s. & ss+ss
/ I. According to the story told By Japa.
nese, and which has also been. heard
at the japanese consulate, IshikaRs
was unable to come from kaslM at
once TO claim his bride on account sof
there being no Immediate steamer 1far
cilities, though he hah received wire
less word that the bride was waiting.
It appears that the news that .
beautiful picture-bride was at the sta
tion waiting for a hus band, was cir
culated in the Japanese comMunitys
and one G. zToyama, plantation la.
borer at Heela, learned Of 1t and con.
cocted the plan to steal the girl, AZ
she should prove, on personal tnspee-
tion, to be as good-lOoking as reports
represented. Accordingly, It is said,
he went TO the Immigration station,
saw the girl, was satisfied, and .hur-
ried to q japanese hotel on Beretania
street, where he registered as Shoden.
IshikaWa or Ishihara Of Kekaha,
Kauai He is understood to haSe Told
the hotel manager he vas here from
Kauai 10 receive his picture bride who
came on the Shinyo, and on this rep:
resentation, 1t is said the hotel mana.
ger went with him to the Immigration
officials to be his witness In claiming
the girl. .-........ e: .
Toyama is said to have been exam
ined by the immigration authorities
and To have pass ed this examination,
upon which he vas allowed 20 take
the girl from the statien. He is SAID
to have taken her 20 the same hotel
where he had registered and TO have
remained until Monday morning Ex'
pectinE that the bona fide, husband.tos
be, would arrive frem Kauai yester.
day, it is said Toyama left the hotel
early and went hack to Heeia with
the bride. : -.
The Kauai man, arriving early in
the morning, wont to another hotel
and asked the manager there to- ac.
company him TO the station and help
get the bride he had brought from
Japan. when the unluckE man
reached the station and was told that
some one else had taken his bride, he
was torn with rage and despair, sum.
moned his friends, and after inquiry
found that Toyama had gone TO
Heeia. It is said they went to Heeia
and brought back the girl but what
happened to sTGyama no one seems
to know, though the Japanese commll-
nifty. has heard there is going to be
some trouble. :
Consul Moroi was absent from the
consulate this morning when tele.
phone inquiry was made. One OF the
consular staff said that the news OF
the abduction had reached the consul
late but they were not in possession
of the facts. Whether the consul
would investigate he could not say.
nor could he confirm the report that
the disappointed Ishikawa had asked
the consulate to take the matter up.