HAWAIIAN MURDER.
Lured From School By White-Clad Stranger. £800 RANSOM COLLECTED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) HONOLULU, September 21. The body of a 10-year-old boy named Jamieson was found yesterday after a j two days' search within a few hundred | yards of the Waikiki Hotel where it I had been left by kidnappers. The lad had been strangled. . The kidnappers had collected £800 of £2000 they had demanded as ransom from the boy's father, Mr. Frederick I Jamieson, vice-president of the Hawaiian j Trust Company, I The boy was lured from school on i Tuesday by a white-clad stranger, who I told the teachers he had come from a I hospital where, he said, the boy's mother was suffering from injuries sustained in a motoring accident. Fifteen suspects, including several Japanese, were held for investigation. The Chamber of Commerce has offered a reward of £4000 for the apprehension of the kidnappers. The crime has caused the greatest excitement here of any event since the armistice and business has practically been suspended. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 9
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171HAWAIIAN MURDER. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 9
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