Poor Innocent Lad: The Tragic Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution of Myles Fukunaga

By: Mike Farris

Narrated by: John Bradford

"Mas. Gill Jamieson, poor innocent lad, has departed for the unknown, a forlorn "walking shadow" in the great beyond, where we all go to when the time comes”. Those words, printed in a handwritten letter delivered to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on the morning of September 20, 1928, told the city of Honolulu that 10-year-old Gill Jamieson, the only son of Hawaiian Trust Company vice president Frederick Jamieson, was dead. What had begun as the search for a kidnap victim quickly turned into a search for Gill’s body and for his killer - a 19-year-old Japanese man named Myles Fukunaga. Poor Innocent Lad: The Tragic Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution of Myles Fukunaga uses trial transcripts and court documents, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, official government records, and a detailed confession from the killer, himself, to tell this tragic story of the kidnapping and murder of young Gill, and the arrest, trial, conviction, and execution of Myles.

©2018 Mike Farris (P)2021 Untreed Reads

too much

This story dragged on and on needlessly. It would have been much more appealing if it had been shortened. The trial and all the legal terms explained and reexplained made my ears bleed and I became numb and desensitized and truly lost any interest I initially had. Overkill ruined this story. I voluntarily listened to a free copy of this and am giving an honest review. The narrator did the best he could with the dry material he was given. I'm surprised it didn't put him to sleep while narrating it.