Myles Fukunaga, HI, 1929 November 19

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/jured* and wanted her son, Gill was taken to hikiki by
| Fukunaga and strangled to death in a secluded spot. near
'the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, The slayer returned to HaRRRR
/Honolulu and sent Frederic Jamieson, Honolulu banker, a
ransom note for $10,000, The distracted father paid the
kidnapper $1,000 at a prearranged site. Fukunaga's cape
ture was effected by following a trail of bills contained
in the ransom package which had been spent by the youth,"

SACRAMENTO BEE, Sacramento, California, 10-5-1928

See excerpt from RANSOM KIDNAPPING IN AMERICA/187))-197h,
by Alix. Bound in white binder, page 55,

“orksheet = Hawaii, not written up.
Mentioned, nothing new = BALTIMORE SUN, 10-

28

Aauleit tet f Mgegar Spare

| jured: and wanted her son, Gill was taken to Waikiki by
| Fukunaga and strangled to death in a secluded spot near
the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The slayer returned to KARRAR
| Honolulu and sent Frederic Jamieson, Honolulu banker, a
ransom note for $10,000, The distracted father paid the
kidnapper $1,000 at a prearranged site, Fukunaga's cap-
ture was effected by following a trail of bills contained
in the ransom package which had been spent by the youth."

SACRAMENTO BEE, Sacramento, California, 10-5-1928

See excerpt from RANSOM KIDNAPPING IN AMERICA/187))-197h,
by Alix, Bound in white binder, page 55.

“Worksheet =- Hawaii, not written up.
Mentioned, nothing new = BALTIMORE SUN, 10-)={'28

it fart ¥ Mogpegae Tyan gee

jured*and wanted her son, Gill was taken to ‘hikiki by
Rikon and strangled to death in a secluded spot _near
e Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The slayer returned to

Bae and sent Frederic Jamieson, Honolulu banker, a

ransom note for $10,000, The distracted father paid the
kidnapper $1,000 at a prearranged site. Fukunaga's cape
ture was effected by following a trail of bills contained
in the ransom package which had been spent by the youth,
\CRAMENTO BEE, Sacramento, California, 10-5-1928
See excerpt from RANSOM KIDNAPPING IN AMERICA/187)\=197h,
by Alix. Bound in white binder, page 55,

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| FUKUNAGA, Mples Yutaka Mervewwl 0A
19-year-old Japanese, hanged, Hawaii, Oeteber-19, 1929,
"Honolulu, 10-5-1928<(he perpetrator of Honolulu's most
appaling crime <= the kidnapping and murdering of 10-year-
old ¥ill Jamieson, was convicted of murder by a jury in 1
hr. and 45 mins, Without a trace of emotion, Myles Yutaka
Fukunaga, 19-year-old Japanese youth, heard the verdict,
Fukunaga confessed to the charge and offered a plea of
guilty at his arraignment. Due to territorial law which
makes a trial jury mandatory when the death penalty is in-
voked, his plea was changed and 2 attornegy appointed to
defend him. His confession was offered in evidence and it
told in detail the reasons for the crime and the commissio

of the act. The Japanese, a student of the method of
William Edward Hickman, California kidnap-shkayer, and Chi-
cago's Leopold and Loeb, lured Gill from school on Sept.
18, using the pretext that the child's mother had been in-

| FUKUNAGA, Mgles Yutaka Mrrewt tr,
19-year-old Japanese, hanged, Hawaii, Octeber-19, 1929,
"Honolulu, 10-5-1928-lhe perpetrator of Honolulu's most
appaling crime - the kidnapping and murdering of 10-year-
old 4ill Jamieson, was convicted of murder by a jury in 1
hr. and 45 mins. Without a trace of emotion, Myles Yutaka
Fukunaga, 19-year-old Japanese youth, heard the verdict.
Fukunaga confessed to the charge and offered a plea of
guilty at his arraignment. Dur to territorial law which
makes a trial jury mandatory when the death penalty is in-
voked, his plea was changed and 2 attorneyy appointed to
defend him. His confession was offered in evidence and it
told in detail the reasons for the crime and the commissior
of the act. The Japanese, a student of the method of |
William Edward Hickman, California kidnap-sdayer, and Chi-
cago's Leopold and Loeb, lured Gill from school on Sept.
18, using the pretext that the child's mother had been in-

TOMINAGA, ee Yutaka Norte
Old Japanese, hanged, Hawaii, (Seeaoen-19, 1929,
WHonoLulu, 10-5-1928-lhe perpetrator of Honolulu's most
= the kidnapping and murdering of 10-year=

apoaling ¢rim

old 4ill Jamieson, was convicted of mrder by a jury in 1
hr, and 45 mins, Without a trace of emotion, Myles Yutaka
Fukunaga, 19-year-old Japanese youth, heard the verdict,
Fukunaga confessed to the charge and offered a plea of
guilty at his arraignment. Due to territorial law which
makes a trial jury mandatory when the death penalty is in-
voked, his plea was changed and 2 attorneys appointed to
defend him, His confession was offered in evidence and it
told in detail the reasons for the crime and the ee
ct. The Japanese, a student of the method of
{Allian Edvard Hickman, California kidnep-salyer, Wha Gis
cago's Leopold and Loeb, lured 0411 from school on Sept.
18, using the pretext that the child's mother had been in-



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