Evening star., 1932-04-20
DarroW Expected to End
Case Without Calling
Others to Stand.
NAVY OFFICER INSANE,
TWO ALIENISTS SWEAR
One Still Remains to Be Cross.
Examined by Prose
cution.
Rr the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, April 20.-Mrs. Tbalia
Massie, unwilling player in the drama
OF passion and homicide that has
shaken Hawaii politically and socially,
was chosen to strike the final blow for
the defense in the Joseph Kahahawai
lynching trial today.
Clarence Darrow, promising to end
his case today, announced he probably
would call the blonde 22-year old as
sault victim to the witness stand in the
effort to free her husband, Lieut.,
Thomas H. Massie, and three other
persons accused Of the killing.
A direct story of the brutality suf-
fered by the young woman in the as
sault of last September was expected
as the defense sought to reinforce the
testimony of Lieut.. Massie, who ad-
mitted holding the pistol that killed
the young native.
Insane, Say Alienists.
Despite the efforts of a belligerent
u.
and DR.. Edward Huntington Williams,
Los Angeles alieniSts, insisted in their
testimony that Massie was insane at
the moment he faced Kahahawai with
drawn pistol and heard the athlete al
legedly confess attacking Mrs. MaSsie.
Dr. Williams remained to be cross
examined, however. before the defense
could take the final step in its case.
T1a hu 10 hood
of defense counsel, that Mrs. MaSSie
would be called was taken to mean none
of the other defendants-Mrs. Granville
Fortescue, mother of the attack victim
Albert o. Jones and E. j. Lord, Navy
enlisted men-would take the stand.
The defense previously had consid-
cred calling Jones because Of prosecu-
ton hints that he was the real killer
of Kahahawai. 1t was learned, how
ever, the defense had decided to let
Lieut.. Massie's story stand as the only
direct account of the killing.
DR.. Orbison termed Massie'S ailment
as "delirium with ambulatory auto
naatism." which he reduced to plain
mental arrangement" when Darrov
asked him for simplified definition.
Jury Shows Interest.
The IL men in the jury box exhibited
signs of interest.
''Massie told me-" said the alienist,
that in the moment Kahahawai uttered
the words we done it. he didn't know
what happened. / asked him what he
did with the gun and ether things and
he said he didn't know"
Barry S. Ulrich, assistant prosecutor,
sought an admission that Orbison S
opinion was based on the assumption
that Massie's story was true.
81 would still believe he was insane
whether I believed him or net" replied
the witness.
The alienist expressed the belief that
a fit of anger had not caused Massie to
kill Kahahawai, because in this case
the mans whole idea was to get con-
fession, and it was unlikely he would
kill the person from whom he expected
to get this confession unless his reason
was unbalanced"
Did you approach this case intending
to learn if the witness were telling the
truth?" demanded Ulrich.
II certainly did An insane man will
lie to you and you know he's lying, but
you know he's insane"
AS an afterthought DR.. Orbison
added:
And money couldn't buy my belief
And I haven't received cent"
Not a Charity Case.
You mean you don't expect to re-
ceive any compensation"
Il don't mean that at all I do eX-
pect to receive something. When 1 ar
rived I was told this was not charity
case, but that they had taken up a COL
lection and, although they didn't be-
lieve it was one-tenth of what I prob
ably expected to receive, it was all they
could pay"
do you think" Ulrich asked, this
defendant is subject to only one kill
ing?"
Il don't know about that. These
days it depends a lot upon locality.
One killing in Chicago is retail"
Previously, however, DR.. Orbison had
said he didn't believe the same thing
would happen to Massie again.
DR.. Williams said his observation was
that Massie had fallen into mental
tension. In an aside to the jury, he
said:
You hear in joking way about
monkey glands. 1t isn't a joke. 1t is
the most serious thing in the world.
1t is so important that six weeks ago
the American Medical Association said
that the endocrine glands were the
basis of all future medicine.
If could have tested Lieut.. Massie's S
blood at the time this thing happened,
it would have shown the gland secre-
tions were deficient. This man carried
about him a bomb. He was in an au-
tomato condition. l am convinced he
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