The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-15
NAVAL OFFICER IS
EXPECTED TO ADMIT
SHOOTING HAWAIIAN
Woman Defendant Weeps as
Lieutenant Tells Of Out.
rage on His Wife
SAYS Identification SURE
Witness is Pale and Under OBJ
vious Strain as he Recounts
Tale Of Horror
SAYS IDENTIFICATION SURE

Honolulu, April 15.-(R-Defense
sntimations that Lieut.. Thomas H
Massic would name himself as the
killer of Joseph Kahahawai and
plead insanity came step nearer
naturalization in the murder trial Of
!. the young navy officer and three
others Friday.
AS the prosecution closed It's case
Clarence Darrow, generalissimo Of
the defense, called Massie to the
stand and said one of the defendants
would admit shooting Kahahawai In
q fit of insanity. BY his questioning
he indicated Massie would be the one
While his mother-in-la and CO.
defendant, Mrs. Granville Fortescue
wept, Massie testified his wife, Mrs
Thalia Massie, had identified the
young Hawaiian and three others as
her attackers. The assault. ne said
had preyed not only upon her mlno
but also upon his own.
Also he said 1t had been necessary
for Mrs. Massie, suffering from frac-
lures of the jaw, to undergo an oper-
alton after the attack to avoid be-
coming a mother.
Since Massie, Mrs. Fortcscue and
T.. J. Lord were arrested Jan. when
police overlook their motor car con-
tanning the body OF Kahahawai, no
word has come from them or the
other defendant, Albert O. Jones, re-
earding the killing. ~
Witness Under Strain
Massie was pale and obviously un-
der a strain as he testified. Most OF
the time he kept his face fixed on the
floor.
Massie testified he was q years
Old and was married when he was
q and Mrs. Massie was Is. He told
of attending a dance in an outlying
inn the night of September IL. when
Mrs. Massie was attacked after going
for a walk in nearby thoroughfare.
WAS there any drinking?" asked
Darrow.
Eyes, sir Massie answered.
did Mrs. Massie care for drink
ing?"
mo-
The lieutenant said he missed Mrs.
Massie when their party was prepar-
ing to 60 home and did not locate
her until after he had telephoned
several friends and finally rang his
own house.
Mrs. Massie answered the phone
he said. land in recognizing my
voice. said Come home at once;
something horrible has happened
Il jumped in car and rushed
home. could hear her sobbing be-
fore I could get into the house. She
collapsed in my arms. Her lips were
bruised, her face swollen. her clothes
torn and her lips bleeding.
II thought a truck had run over
her. She said 1t was too horrible to
tell and could only sob.
Wanted TO Die
she said she wanted to die. Final
" she told me some men had taken
her in a car and carried her into the
bushes and ravisted her. I then call
ed the police and told them my wife
had been assaulted"
Mrs. Fortescue was crying. Massie
said he took his wife to q hospital
and tried in vain to sleep.
He told how four men had been
brought before Mrs. Massie the next
day for Identification. They were
Kal,ahawai, Horace Ida, Henry
Chang and Ben Ahakeulo.
"She questioned them ALL" Massie
said, "She seemed to concentrate on
Kahahawai. After they left she told
me they were the ones. asked her
If she was sure and she said Darling.
do you think would ever draw
another honest breath unless I were
sure?'"
Massie said the attackers rejected
money. He said his wife told him
THAT Kahahawai beat her more
than any other and that when he as
saulted her she prayed for mercy
and he hit her and broke her jaw"
Did you ever get advice from q
doctor about your wtfe's condition."
asked Darrow.
Il got that at the hospital" Massie
said, after Mrs. MasSie's mother in
formed us an operation would be nee
essary to prevent pregnancy. It was
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