Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Masa, Officer November 15, 1911
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 11-21-1911
MASA
JAPANESE OFFICER KILLED IN KEKAHA.  Masa, a Japanese who had for some time been 
connected with the police department in the capacity of a detective, was 
surrounded by an angry mob of Japs in Kekaha about 8 o'clock Wednesday night and 
was so badly beaten with stones that he died in the Waimea hospital at three 
o'clock Thursday afternoon. Masa had been successful in locating a number of blind 
pigs and had accompanied the police on a raid. One attempt had been successful, 
and together with two policemen, Masa returned to Kekaha for a second bunch. 
Several more captures had been made, and the officers were approaching the auto 
with their prisoners when they were set upon by a mob which had been called by the 
beating of an old tin pan. All lights, including the electric street lamp under 
which stood the police auto, were extinguished. The air then became a flying mass 
of debris of every description but chiefly of stones. The police being unarmed 
were powerless to assist their comrade, and when an attack was made on the auto, 
they climbed in and as quickly as possible had re-enforcements on the scene of 
strife. When they returned to Kekaha, however, all was quiet and a search revealed 
the body of Masa lying in a clump of bushes with stones piled on his head. He was 
hurried to the hospital while a thorough search of the camp yielded up five Japs 
whom the police felt sure they could identify. They were promptly taken into 
custody and brought over to Lihue. Sheriff Rice and C. A. Doyle are making a most 
rigid search for all those who took a hand in this cowardly murder. The murdered 
man was single and bore a good reputation with the police department.  []


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