SORDID CASE

Evening Star, Issue 21093, 4 May 1932, Page 14

SORDID CASE

HAWAIIAN GIRL ACQUITTED THEFT FROM CHINAMAN CHARGED [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 3. After a trial lasting a day and a-half, Charlotte Kaiu, a Hawaiian, aged twenty-six, was found not guilty in the Supreme Court to-day of having stolen £723 in bank notes from Low Fee, a Chinese fruiterer, of 74 Constable street. A Crown witness, Reginald Chapman, a relief worker, told of a conversation with the accused, in which he said she admitted taking the money on the night of March 25, when' she stayed at Low’s shop. From the witness box the accused asserted that Low carried on prostitution on a largo scale. She alleged that Chapman threatened, in conversation with her. to take the money from Low, and on the night of March 25 he called at the shop. Low was asleep, and witness went to the door to ask Chapman to depart. She asserted that Chapman forced his way in. and was present when she went to reassure Low, who was awakened hy the noise. The Chief Justice, summing up, described tlie case as a sordid drama. When the verdict was announced there was applause, which was promptly silenced.