The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-06
RACIAL HATE
ISSUE RISES IN
HONOR TRIAL
barrow Works for Jury of
Whites to Hold Fate OF
Four Americans.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press stan Correspondent


Copyright 1882 By United Press
HONOLULU, T. r., April g.
Sharp drawn racial lines embittered
the honor Staying trial Of four
Americans today.
The defense used peremptory
challenges TO obtain a Jury Of
whites, while prosecutors favored
orientals and hslf-castes.
Clarence Darrow, aged and
shrewd chief defense counsel, who
had denied such animosities existed
among the mixtures Of Hawaii's
melting pot" found himself tenn
porarily bested as the third days
hearing began with only Ave whites
In the list of twelve prospective
jurors.
AS the jury drawing approached
an end, Dartow's relentless contest
with foreigners" who wanted to
stay on the panel goaded him to
outbursts.
Il didn't realize it before, but It's
quite possible that the scarcity OF
jobs has something to do with this, F"
he declared vehemently. Its pos
sible some of these people want to
be on the jury because they are out
Of Job and want 81 day."
Fear SmOIdering Hates
Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue,
gray-haired New York and Wash
ington socialite, nervously watched
Darrow's struggle to free her and
three men co-defendants on charges
they killed Joe Kahahawai Jr., husky
young Hawaiian.
Apprehensive that smoldering
hates were masked by bland faces,
Darrow excused one half-caste after
another, and occasionally a Jap
anese or Chinese with them.
In a genial Irish brogue, Prosecu-
tor John Kelley matched Darrow's
maneuvers by eXcusing the whites,
and trying to retain the racial
brothers of the Staying victim.
In the jury box, awaiting arrival
of Circuit Judge Charles S. Davis,
we're Kan Tai Lee and Kenneth Sun
Chunn, Chinese; Charles Hao and
Edward Goeas, Chinese Hawaiians
Hisaka Imada, Japanese; Charles
Akana, Hawaiian; Sam j. Lyle, part
Hawaiian; Kenneth B. Bankston,
r. H. Eveleth, Stafford Waterhouse,
William r. Chellgard and Charles
H. Strohlin, whites.
Long Jury Fight Seen
Many peremptory challenges re-
manned to both prosecution and de-
Tense before approval of a jury, and
the territory starts evidence to sup
port charges that Mrs Massie, her
son-in-law Lieutenant Thomas H.
Massie, and E. j. Lord and Albert
o. Jones, navy enlisted men, killed
Kahahawai to avenge an attack on
Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie.
Mrs. Massie, daughter of Mrs.
Fortescue and bride of the lieuten-
ant, was attacked last September by
guns VA AOlAAAQ AlOONAdAlAos
Five natives and half-castes, Ka-
hahawai among them, were tried on
the charges but the jury disagreed.
barrow, fighting to keep the at
tack case uppermost in the minds
of veniremen, had difficulty under
standing the broken English of
many prospects.
William Huihui, Hawaiian, was
excused when he blurted out he
thought the defendants ought to
be shot"
Jones and Lord. the enlisted men,
laughed shortly as the native left
the box. The courtroom Joined
them.
But Mrs. Fortesque and Lieuten-
ant Massie never took their eyes off
the floor.
Fights to Show Motive
Every time the prosecutors asked
veniremen If they could reach YER
dict without regard to Kahahawai's
guilt or innocence in the attack
case, Darrow objected
we might as well SeJtle JnlS
now" he said. "The attack case
has everything to do with this trial.
It's a motive, and motive in MUIR
der case is tangible when it comes
to seating the jury"
But Judge Davis, who lodged the
issue at the first days hearing, still
reserved a formal decision, and
y