ALLEGED TO HAVE SLAIN BOY

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1928, Page 9

ALLEGED TO HAVE SLAIN BOY

LET CROWD GET ME, I DON’T CARE. HONOLULU JAPANESE ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 23, 115 p.m, Honolulu, Sept. 22. At twilight to-night the peal of the siren on the Aloha Tower summoned the National Guardsmen to duty to prevent disorders in connection with the arrest of Miles Fukunaga, a 20-year-old Japanese who the police state is suspected of being the slayer of the 10-year-old boy Gill Jamieson, whose father had paid the kidnappers part of the ransom demanded before the body was discovered.

Threatening crowds jammed the streets in the vicinity of the police station, where the suspect was being questioned. “I’ve been a bad boy; I want to tell it to mother,” said Fukunaga. As the police batons protected him from the mob he said: “What does it matter? Let the crowd get me, I don’t care.”

A dramatic scene was then enacted behind the gray lava walls of “Oihana Makai,” the Honolulu police station, as Miles Yutake Fukunaga unfolded step by step the grim story of his kidnapping and killing of Gill Jamieson. Fukunaga said he had a hard time killing the boy, who fought fiercely, being almost as strong as his slayer. Meanwhile firemen with levelled streams from hose forced back the infuriated mob while the national guardsmen were being mobilised. The city is a scene of pandemonium. Automobiles are dashing wildly through tSe thronged streets and armed men are rushing hither and thither.