Evening star., 1932-04-06

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gineers, bank clerks-white part white.
Hawaiian. Chinese and Japanese.
Then the wedding process began and
the prosecution Immediately challenged
Chinese whose place tentatively was
taken by a white man, while Clarence
Darrow challenged Henry P. Beckley.
ranchman and brother-in-law of the
politically powerful Princess Abby
Kawanakoa, widow of the late Prince
David Kawanakoa.
This picturesque and keen-minded
woman is the head of native
Hawaiian group, and in the present
situation she is being continually con-
suited by her people. But aside from
Mr.. Beckley's relationship through his
wife, he also was former military
aide to the governor and a deputy
sheriff with police Affiliations. Until
recently he has been manager Of a
ranch on the Island of Hawaii.
Humor Breaks WEAKNESS.
The prosecution then challenged a
white man who formerly had been in
the British army and is now overSeer
of a plantation. The defense next
eliminated a japanese and a white
banker was barred by the prosecution.
The final challenge was of a Hawaiian
musician by the defense. Aside from
the interest in these challenges the day
passed in a weary procession of men
through the jury box, enlivened now
and then by humor
There was man who said he had
formed no opinion. but who, under Mr.
Darrow'S skillful questioning, finally ad-
nlitted he had once said they ought to
be shot. He finally was permitted to
drop out by mutual agreement.
There was the Hawaiian beach boy
who said he was training for the navy
in the local armory and caused chuckles
by the way in which he answered ques-
tions. One Hawaiian, who the day be-
fore said he wanted to be excused be-
cause he didn't know anything about
the case, got himself into predicament
by showing he could not understand
English at all. He meant well, but
underwent a difficult few minutes while
Judge Charles S. Davis questioned him
and obtained nothing but blank looks
or looks of bewilderment.
Prosecutor Makes Mistake.
Barry Ulrich, associated with the
prosecution, made a mistake early in
the day by sarcastically asking a jury
man if he had not heard of Mr.. Darrow
just as he had heard of President
Hoover and Abraham Lincoln and other
famous men. A short time later Mr..
Darrow calmly defeated him in the
line of examination and made Mr..
Ulrich, who seemed somewhat put out,
reframe the question.
Again Mr.. Ulrich pressed his examina-
ton to the point where it became en-
barrassing to the prosecution while Mr..
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this John G. Kelley took up the eX-
animation. Mr.. Kelley has shown un-
expected suaveneSS and an indication
he is worthy opponent of Mr.. Darrow.
His brother, Cornelius Kelley, is presi-
dent of the Anaconda Copper Co.
All during the trying day Mrs. For
teScue and Lieut.. Massie and the two
Navy enlisted men. the codefendants,
sat silently and almost rigidly in their
chairs behind the counsel table. Their
backs are to the rail on the other side
of which are the tables used by the
newspaper men.
None of them, except Lieut.. MaSsie,
ever looked around the court room.
To avoid the crowds which gathered
at the rear of the court house, they
were taken to the front entrance and
got into cars under police escort just
as people came running around the
building in the hope of seeing them.
Nobody is allowed by the building
without pass. Two in each car under
Navy guard, with motor cycle police
men in front and behind, the four de-
PENDANTS come in each morning from
Pearl Harbor and return there at night.
The battle Of peremptory challenges
will be resumed today with the pos
sibility that it will be a long and dreary
affair
Each side has 81 challenges left and
they are using them so carefully that
the examination of each talesman is
bound to take more time than during
the first two days.
1t is evident that the desire of each
side is to obtain a certain type of jury
and the fact that ordinary requirements
for jury duty do not hold in this case
makes necessary much deliberate
searching of each new man in the box
before he becomes acceptable.
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