Evening star., 1932-01-10
PANIC GRIPS HAWAII
AFTER Staying LAID
TO MRS. FORTESCUE
Army, Police and Navy Patrols
Ready to Take Charge in
Honolulu if Necessary.
HOMES ARE BARRICADED
BY WIVES OF OFFICERS
Fresh Clues Found in Home of D.
C. Matron-Son-in-Law and
Two Seamen in Custody.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, January g. Despite
outward calm, Honolulu felt the tension
of hysteria tonight as an outgrowth OF
two attacks on white women since Sep
tember IL and this week ends sensa-
tional climax to one Of them-the ar
rest OF a naval officer, his mother-in-
law and two seamen on murder charges.
Those held are Lieut. Thomas H.
Massie, U. S. N; Mrs. Granville Fortes-
cue, E. ]. Lord, an enlisted man, and
Albert o. Jones, North Adams, Mass,
also an enlisted man, reported to be
guard at the Massie home.
D. E. Wilkie, a third enlisted man
and suspected renter of death car,
was released tonight.
Held Aboard Warship.
The quartet are accused Of Staying
Joseph Kahahawai, young Hawaiian,
after Turing him from court room into
g death auto. They are under arrest
on civil charge, but are being held by
the Navy aboard a warship in Pearl
Harbor under a "gentlemen's agree
ment"
The slain native was one of five men
charged with assaulting Mrs. Massie,
wife of the lieutenant, on September IL.
Mrs. Fortescue is the daughter Of the
late Charles j: Bell, Washington, D. c.,
banker and has long been prominent
in the National Capital, New York and
European society. She Is the wife OF
granville Fortescue, widely known SOL
dier and author.
City Attorney Gilliland announced
Mrs. Fortescue and the three Navy men
would be tried in the territorial courts
and not by the Navy as result Of an
agreement made last August with naval
authorities governing the disposal OF
cases involving men of the service.
Griflth Wright, deputy prosecutor, said
the death penalty would be asked as
the murder @was premeditated."
Representatives of civic organizations
named a committee composed OF Japa-
nese, Filipino, Chinese, Hawaiian and
FAUlCtACdA A3AiNANOnAo w OA1NA bAASA ~
sistance to civil authorities.
Swift Measures Taken.
Various authorities took swift steps
meanwhile to prevent any outburst.
Regular Army, military police and naval
patrols were augmented.
The Army was reported ready TO
send troops from its fort, % miles out,
in emergency.
The Army and Navy restricted all
enlisted men to quarters.
The civil governor, Lawrence M.
Judd. called committees Of both ter
riterial legislative bodies to con-
slider pressing needs" Monday. There
was a report these committees would
consider police department shake-up
plan.
Then came a strongly worded state
ment from a high naval authority in
Washington, Admiral William V. Pratt,
chief Of operations, who declared
American men will not stand for the
violation of their women under any
circumstances"
For this crime" he said, they have
taken the matter into their own hands
repeatedly when they have felt that
the law has faild to do justice"
Decision Explained.
The admiral explained a decision to
keep enlisted men off the island during
feet maneuvers, thus: We believe it
will be unsafe to send the feet to
anchor near Honolulu, for acts of vio-
lence which might result in bloodshed
are almost certain to take place under
present circumstances. He declared
the police situation on the island was
intolerable.
Women in residential districts locked
their doors, fearing possible attack from
Daniel Lyman, convicted murderer, who
escaped from Oahu Prison several days
ago Lyman escaped with Lui Kaikapu,
captured and identified as the attacker
of the second white woman, school
teacher.
Report said the Army was ready TO
send troops to the city in case Of any
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