Evening star., 1932-04-12
Calls Witnesses in Effort to
Prove Staying Took Place
in House of Matron.
BARROW HOLDING BACK
PLANS OF DEFENSE
Reserves Opening Statement and
Makes Few Efforts to Cross
Examine Men on Stand.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HONOLULU, April 12-Eforts to
picture what happened behind the
drawn blinds of the home Of Mrs.
Granville Fortescue January 8, when Jo-
soph Kahahawai was allegedly lynched,
were made by the prosecution today in
the trial of the society woman and
three Navy men for the killing.
John C. Kelley, public prosecutor, has
produced witnesses who linked the de-
PENDANTS with the abduction Of Kahaha-
wal and with the motor car stopped by
police while rushing toward Koko Head
with the body. which apparently was to
have been thrown to the sharks.
The prosecutor lined up today's wit
nesses in an attempt 10 show that the
killing took place in the Fortescue home.
Describes Visit Of Police.
He did not reveal the names Of those
summoned to take the stand and, as far
as is publicly known, he has no actual
witnesses to the shooting which ended
Kahahawais life.
In his opening statement Kelley told
the racially mixed jury something Of
what he expected to prove concerning
the home.
Two officers, he said, went to the
place after the shooting and found
windows closed and blinds drawn. They
found a revolver, he said, and bullet
lying on table.
A purse containing a photograph Of
Kahahawai, cap which had been worn
by the victim, blood stains, rope iden-
teal with that used to bind Kahaha-
wais sheet-enveloped body and evidence
indicating the floor had been recently
said.
|. Victims Cousin Testifies.
Mrs Fortescue and the other defend
arts-Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, Edward
J. Lord and Albert o. Jones-feacted IN
various ways to the words and actions
of the Territory's leading witnesses.
Edward Ulii, cousin Of Kahahawai
testified 1t was Mrs. Fortescue, Massie
and Lord who lured the victim into an
automobile with a fake summons and
wbisked him away. When Ulii pointed
to Mrs. Fortescue as the driver of the
cal she did not look up.
Rising from his chair, Ulii pointed
to Jones as the man who had handed
Kahahawai the warrant" Jones arose
and stared unflinchingly at the wit
ness. Ulii said Kahahawai had gone
to the Judiciary Building to make his
daily report pending retrial on q
charge that he and four other men
attacked Mrs. Massie, wife of the lieu
tenant and daughter Of Mrs. Fortescue.
Court Clerk on Stand.
william Dickson, part Hawaiian court
clerk. to whom Kahahawai had been
reporting, testified Mrs. Fortescue had
gone to his Office a few days before
the lynching and had learned the
young Hawaiian was making daily re-
ports there.
How the death car was spotted,
stopped and Kahahawais body and
the living occupants, Mrs. Fortescue:
Massie and Lord, removed, was told
by George Won Arnswald, the arrest
ing officer.
Won Arnswald said Mrs Fortescue,
whom he named as the driver OF the
car, speeded up the machine when ne
started in pursuit. He said he stopped
it only after firing two shots and then
pulling up ahead of it for a second time.
Kelley asked Won Arnswald what the
three said when he asked them why
they had the body. The officer asserted
none of them said anything except
Lord. whose answer was, i don't
know"
Clarence Darrow, head Of the defense
battery, continued to hold his flre.
When the time came for him to make
his opening statement he reserved 1t.
He was sparing also of his cross-ques-
tioning putting only few queries to
Ulii and Won Arnswald.