The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-26
BARROW, Ill,
TO MAKE LAST
STIRRING PLEA
Appeal to Jury Today viii
Be Brilliant Climax tc
Half Century Career.
ALIENIST is HECKLED
Famed Attorney ArouSes
Wrath of Expert in
testimony Clash.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press stan Correspondent

COURTROOM, HONOLULU, April
26.-Gathering his ebbing strength
for browning effort of his bril-
liant half century before the bar,
Clarence Darrow was ready to plead
the cause of four accused Ameri-
can honor slayers today, in possibly
his last address to a jury.
A fate of Darrows own choosing
placed his legalistic swan song
thousands of miles from the scenes
Of his last triumphs, and filled the
panel with men of racial mixtures
such as he never saw in all his
famous cases back in the States"
Interest centered on the 75-year-
old barrister as he waited to de-
liver a speech he hopes finally will
sway this jury of whites and
browns to free Lieutenant Thomas
H. MaSsie, his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Granville Fortescue, and seamen A.
o. Jones and E. J. Lord on charges
of Staying Hawaiian Joe Kahaha-
wal
Plainly exhausted by a spirited
verbal joust with the final prosecu-
ton aienist Monday, Darrow re-
quested and was granted the pres
ence of a physician during his prof.
ected four hour plea.
Physician by His Side
Again by Darrow's own choosing,
the doctor was DR.. Robert Faus,
city-county physician of Honolulu,
who a few hours ago was an expert
witness attacking Lieutenant Mas
sizes claims of insanity. The eld-
erly defense chief said he did not
want his own physician present. to
avoid influence g the jury.
Barry S. Ulrich, assistant prose-
cutor and millionaire amateur
actor, was to open the argument to-
day with plea TO convict the four
on charges of second degree murder.
He may speak for two hours. Next
was George S. Leisure of New York,
assistant defense aid, who accom-
panied Darrow to the islands.
Then viii come the final bit OF
drama that avid spectators have
been anticipating-Dar own
address, the one for which he
emerged from retirement.
Prosecutor to Close
Prosecutor John G. Kelley who
marshaled the case against the
Americans which he hopes will send
them to stony Oahu prison for life,
will close the arguments in half an
hour, according to present plans.
The estimated length of speeches
and Judge Charles S. Davis final
instructions would send the case to
the jury late Wednesday.
Evidence ended in the third week
OF trial Monday and both sides
rested with the stirring events of
last Jan. 8 only partly revealed. The
prosecution charged Lieutenant
Massie killed Kahahawai to revenge
an attack on his young wife, Thalla
Fortescue Massie.
The tragic-faced young navy Off
Ger admitted he held gun in his
hand to brighten" a confession of
the attack from Kahahawai. but that
when the islander allegedIy said.
Yes We done it" his mind became
blank. He remembered nothing
thereafter, he said.
Closes With Drama
The other three defendants. who
the state charged were present or
nearby when the fatal interview took
place, did not testify. Only through
tscit admissions of defense alienists
was it admitted that Massie actual
ly fired the lethal bullet.
just as it began, the trial closed
in a stormy argument over Lieu
tenant Msssie's asserted temporary
insanity. Showing his greatest agits-
ton since the hearing opened, Oar
row matched words with DR.. loser a
Cation of Stanford university
third and last Of the prosecution
experts.
DR.. Cation supported DR.. Faus
and DR.. Paul Bowers in attacking
defense experts who declared Lieu
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