Chief Beats Up Bus Driver
p. 73 · Read in the full issue
FOLLOWING a dispute over pay ment of a bus fare in mid-1954, American Samoan High Chief Suani Save, together with four relatives, beat and injured bus driver Malaki so badly he was hospitalised for two weeks. Chief Save was a former member of the House of Representatives from Lealataua County.
At his trial in November, the chief pleaded not guilty to a charge of “assault with a deadly weapon.” But he and his companions were found guilty and sentenced by Judge Arthur A. Morrow to 18 months’ gaol, the last six of which would be dependent on good behaviour.