Evening star., 1932-01-10

widespread trouble The troops are
from here. The strength of the Army
patrol and that of the military police
was strengthened.
The Navy Department issued orders
forbidding its personnel from going
ashore in Honolulu during the visit OF
the Pacific Fleet next. month for
naaneuverS.
Naval officials charged 40 women had
been attacked here in the last year,
but civilian authorities stated there
had been only three criminal assaults
against white women, although there
had been Investigations Of S3 sex cases.
~ Race War" Denied.
Former Gov. Wallace r. harrington
issued a statement denying there was
race war" or any racial feeling in
Honolulu.
All enlisted men of the Army and
Navy we're restricted to their reserya-
tionS, but some officers living in Honolu-
tions.
Although most of the cases Of al
legged assaults on women involved men
of Hawaiian, Japanese and Chinese
blood, individual citizens said they were
unaware of any racial feeling. No
Oriental has been convicted of assault
on d white woman within the last year.
Kahahawai and four companions, &C
cUsed of repeatedly attacking Mrs. Mas
sic. were brought to trial more than a
month ago, but the jury disagreed and
they were being held under bond for
retyial.
The. city was greatly excited last night
when an individual, allegedly posing as
q National Guard officer, ordered the
siren in Aloha Tower to be blown.
This caused thousands Of persons to
rush TO their telephones.
e., Charge Cases Suppressed.
Newspapers, taking cognizance of
hints that the news of some of the at
tacks had been suppressed, said they
had printed stories regularly, particu-
larly the proceedings in the trial of the
fivs accused of attacking Mrs. Massie.
The latter's name had been withheld
until yesterday, when her mother and
husband were arrested.
Authorities said the three stack
cases involving white women in the past
year included that Of a nurse, which
never was brought before the grand
jury because Of insufficient evidence;
the case of Mrs. MasSie last September,
and that Of Mrs. James M Odowa, q
school teacher, assaulted a week ago.
Kaikapu was identified as Mrs.
odowas aSsailant and returned to prison
for life.
The grand jury, in its report this
week, said the remainder of the 80
cases investigated included Is instances
not involving violence and in which
the girls were under 16 years old, and
IL cases Of assault with attempt to
rayish
Reconstructing yesterdays abduction
and. Staying, police said they were con-
vinced Kahaf.awai was killed in a
house rented by Mrs. Fortescue
Following the route supposedly taken
by the kidnapers after Turing Kaha-
hawai- from q courtroom and bundling
him into an automobile allegedly driven
by Mrs. ForteScue, officers said they be-
Aeved man joined the abductors be-
tween the judiciary building and the
accused woman's home. =
p Fortescue Hease Searched.
Searching the Fortescues house, Of
GterS reported finding the cap worn by
Eahah@wai and 20 feet of bloodstained
rope. This rope, they said, was similar
I'd that wound around the sheet,
enshrouded body Of the Hawaiian when
the death car, containing Mrs. For
tescue, MaSsie, Lord and the lifeless
victim, was oyertaken sfteF lo-mile
chase.
"A blood-stained towel, two automatic
pistols, bloody shirt and the torn
weman's wrapper were fodnd in Mrs.
ETrtescue's bed room. Ofncers said
there were blood stains on the bed
rWom floor and the door. The door had
been damaged, they said, indicating a
gTuggle had taken place there.
~OfhcialS said they believed Kahaha-
v&i's slayers stripped his body of cloth
rag there and washed the clothes in an
attempt to erase evidence of the crime.
Laundry marks had been removed from
the sheet in which the body was
wrapped.
Police also held Albert o. Jones, q
sailor on the submarine S-22, and D.
e. Gilkie, another sailor, who allegedly
rented the death car from garage.
Jones was found in the Massie home be-
fore 1t became known that the Hawaiian
had been slain. Jones said he had been
placed on duty as guard and had been
AZ the Massie home all night.
Maid Disputes Story.
Mrs. Massie and her sister, Helen For
teScue, corToborated this, but q Japanese
maid, who had gone to the house at
O'Clock yesterday morning, contradicted
their statements.
Jones was found to possess the maga-
zine of an automatic pistol with one
cartridge missing and fake warrant.
sllegedly used to lure Kahahawai out
OF the courtroom and into the street for
the kidnapping.
Whether the accused trio will be tried
in the Territorial Court or elsewhere
may depend upon "gentlemen's agree
nent" between Attorney General Harry
r. Hewitt and naval authorities rela-
tive to the disposition Of criminal cases
involving personnel.
Montgomery E. Winn, attorney for
the three, intimated the agreement
would be invoked. The agreement is
that cases other than mlsdemeanorS IN
yolving Navy personnel shall be tried
by the Navy. Should the agreement
hold, Mrs. FOrtescue probably could not
escape trial in the territorial courts.
The coroner's jury viewed Kahaha-
wai's body at the morgue and will be-
gin It's inquiry next week.
Police reported they also were hold
Ing the four other defendants in the
assault case involving Mrs MaSsie
Ofncers said this was merely safety
precaution
The first upheavel Of Navy resent
HieAI IOnOWeo tle lalluTe OF jury 10
convict Kahahawai and the four others
accused Of repeatedly attacking Mrs.
MaSSie.
New Trial Ordered.
The jury disagreed and a new trial
was ordered. The five accused men
had been reporting daily to the court
pending their retrial
On December IL Rear Admiral George
T. Pettengill commanding of1cer of
mine craft at Pearl Harbor, warned
Admiral Richard H. Leigh, commander
OF the battle force Of the United States
Fleet that Honolulu was an unsafe
place for the wives Of naval officers
Rear Admiral Stirling Pearl Harbor
commandant then declined to COM
ment on a report that wives Of naval
ofncerS here were arming themselves