HONOLULU ASSAULTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17738, 26 March 1932, Page 14

HONOLULU ASSAULTS

MOB HYSTERIA REVIVED NAVY MEN’S WIVES ATTACKED HONOLULU, Feb. 29. Smouldering mob hysteria was revived in Honolulu to-day when an attack on a United States Navy man’s wife and the robbery of another were added to a long list of violent crimes blamed on Hawaii’s “melting pot”' of racial conflict. With one native already slain in an outbreak of lynch law reprisal, the police established emergency patrols throughout the city while others rounded up five islanders as suspects in the latest attack case.

Mrs. J. W. Hope, wife of a machinist’s mate, was attacked by a voutli she lielieved was a Chinese. Afterwards he robbed her neighbor, Mrs. D. W. Curry, wife of a chief petty officer on shore patrol duty here. Both husbands were absent. Curyv in the downtown district and .Hope aboard bis submarine on route to San Diego, California.

’Pile terror-stricken women, realising the repercussions which might follow, debated three hours before notifying the police. An alarm was sounded and the attacker was hunted in every section of Honolulu.

At first the police announced that a suspect had been identified. La lor they said Mrs. Hope had been blindfolded fluviim the attack and was unable to identify any of the. pictures in the police “rogues gallery.”