Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1932, Page 28

B—12 ¥»» PRISON HORRORS BARED N HAWAI Report Says Criminals Car- ried Own Keys and As- saulted Women. By the Associated Press HONOLULU, February 26—A story of convicts carrying the keys to their cells and the outer gates of the peni- tentiary, and of prisoners leaving for night or week end visits, is told in a report of the Hawaiian prison directors to_Gov. Lawrence M. Judd The report covered the state of Singer to Wed | CYRENA VAN GORDON CHOICE OF COPPER MAGNATE. affairs during the height of Honolulu's | recent crime wave, wnen the Oahu Prison was under the administration of High Sheriff John C. Lane. Lane re- signed in January, after being censured by the governor. The report said con- ditions have been improved under the new sheriff, Maj. Gordon Ross of the Territorial National Guard, who has placed the convicts under strict, but 1air, discipline. Supplies Reported Taken. Misappropriation of supplies moral laxity of prisoners as evidenced by the birth of a child to a woman prisoner were included in the sweeping charges of gross mismanagement and lax control. Liquor was frequently brought into the penitentiary, the re- port said. Prison conditions were first brought to light with the escape December 31 of two prisoners, who, QE: board says, ‘were gone several hours before the ad- ministration knew it. One, Lui Kai- kapu, Hawalian burglar, assaulted the wife of a prominent Honolulu business man the next day, was recaptured and | sentenced to life imprisonment. His companion, Daniel Lyman, murderer, was at large 30 days. Apprehension Increased. Escape of the convicts and revelatio: many were allowed to roam the island without guards added to the feeling of apprehension among residents already alarmed by the outbreak of assaults upon women. Among the assault vic- ms was the wife of Lieut. Thomas . Massie, U. S who, with his mother-in-law, Mrs. ~ranville For: tescue, and two naval enlisted men, have been indicted for second-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Joseph Kahahawal, one of the al- and | i CYRENA VAN GORDON. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, February 26.—Howard | D. Smith, president of the Consolidated Copper Mines, Inc., and a resident of | 8an Prancisco, obtained a license Thurs- |day to marry Cyrena Van Gordon, opera singer. He said the wedding | would be on Saturday. Miss Van Gordon, who is 14 years younger than Smith, was first married to Dr. Shirley B. Munn, Chicago spe- | cialist, in 1913, and they were granted a divorce last Summer. Smith is 50 | years old. Film Pair Ordered to Pay. LOS ANGELES, February 26 (#).— Carol dnd her husband, | Stuart, film players, must pay William | Lohlker, a contractor, $1252 for deco- rating their home here. They con- tended another contractor had been employed to do the work and they had | paid him in full. Palestine’s biennial Levant Fair will pe held in Tel-Aviv in April. Nick | == leged attackers. it S it “saigrea 19 ||| WE Wais the Navy to aid in the defense of the | . No Longer Attractive four, left Honolulu last night for San | Francisco to meet Clarence Darrow and discuss details of the case should the noted Chicago criminal attorney join in the defense. DARROW MAY ACCEPT CASE. Famous Lawyer Considering Defending Hawaiian Prisoners. NEW YORK, February 26 #).— Clarence Darrow, noted lawyer, said last night he “very likely” would go te Hono- lulu to help defend Mrs. Granville Fortescue and three others facing charges of second-degree murder. Mr. Darrow said he was speaking for himself alone and that the matter was not being considered jointly by him and Dudley Field Malone, international law- yer, also invited to join in Mrs. For- tescue’s defense. — - TRIO FREED IN SLAYING Fourth Still Held in Probe of Grocer's Death. 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IN POISONING OF MAID| Court Acts in Kegel Case After Grand Jury Admits “Mis- conception of Facts.” Home. Judge PFisher said he quashed the in- dictments on his own initlative after receiving & message from the grand jury that it had voted the true bills through a “misconception of the facts Mrs. Kegel and Lee, a grocers clerk. were indicted on the basis of statements of Mrs. Mary Ryan, the former domes- | tic, who is ‘il -of poisoning, and Lee By the Associated Press. 05 ming, and Le y | They alleged that Mrs. Kegel adminis- CHICAGO, February 26—Chief toreq poison to Mrs. Ryan in a soda Justice Harry M. Fisher in Criminal | fountain beverage, supposedly to thwart Court yesterday quashed indictments | her appeiarance as a witness at Dr - Kegel's divcree trial. ch:xglx;ghMrsv Marie ngel estranged | 00 subsequently charged that his wife of the former city health commis- | alleged confession was forced from him sioner, and Gerald Lee with attempted | by third degree methods PUT AT $12.35 DAILY Executive of Dealers’ Council Pre- sents Figures at Confer- ence in Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 26— Apparently they're heavy drinkers in the White House—of milk Merrill O. Maughan, executive secre- | tary of the Milk Council, Inc., said yes- terday that 24 quarts of milk and 12 | pints of whipping cream RUARY 26, 1932, e murder of & former maid in the Kegel | WHITE HOUSE MILK BILL |gach day at the White House, making best customers for the milkman. The average dally bill, Maughan sald, was $12.35--about $4,500 a yea N. E. A. 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