Evening star., 1932-04-17

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, April 16.-Lieut
Thomas H. MaSsie today testified
his last remembrance of the kid
naping and Staying of Joseph
KahahaWai was of confronting the
Hawaiian with a pistol and hear
ing the natives confession of an
attack on Mrs. MaSSie.
The Navy officer thus took upon
his slight shoulders the response
bility for the lynching of Kaha-
hawai- that shook the social and
political strata of Hawaii His
testimony paved the way for ar
insanity defense and told how the
attack and vile rumors" about
his wife had goaded him into
action.
Massie led up TO the story of the kill.
ing, which occurred last January 8, by
relating long story under the guidance
Of Clarence Darrow, his attorney.
Abduction Plotted.
He asserted that he and three CO.
defendants, Mrs. Granville Fortescue
Albert o. Jones and E. ]. Lord, plotted
the abduction of Kahahawai with the
intention Of obtaining confession.
Il drove to Mrs. Fortescue's house
(scene of the killing and when I went
in 1 remembered l left a pistol on the
table, SO put it in my pocket" he de-
clared.
Then I called out Come in, Mai
Ross (head Of the territorial police is
here / heard Kahahawai sit down in
chair In the front room.
Il took of my glasses and went in
and confronted him with gun.
do you know who I amp I asked.
7 think do he replied.
L asked him who kicked the woman, y
Msssie testified with rising voice. land
he said nobody kicked the woman.
y said. Now I know you are lying
He said he didn't know nothing.
Mrs. Fortescue got up and said, He
won't talk; let us carry out our other
plans
Confession Claimed.
II told him If he wouldn't talk we
knew what to do. I told Lord to go
out and get the boys. AS Lord went out
told Kahahawai, If you don't talk
you will get what Ida (another attack
defendant who was kidnapped and beat
en- got. These men will beat you to
ribbons. Now you talk
Suddenly he said, Yes, we done it,
That's all remember. All could
see was my wife and hear what she
told me-that when Kahahawai at
tackled her and she prayed for mercy
he answered by breaking her jaw"
MaSSie said his next remembrance
was Of being taken TO the police sta
ton. This was some two hours after
the killing, and after Kahahawai's body
had been found in an automobile near
Koko Head. In the car were Massie,
Mrs. Fortescue and Lord.
Mrs. Fortescue, well known in Wash
tngton and New York society, is the
mother Of Mrs. Massie. Lord and Jones,
the other defendants in the second de-
gree murder case, are Navy enlisted
men.
Counsel in WrangIe
A fight between DarroW, who ap-
parently had recovered from an attack
Of indigestion, suffered yesterday. and
Public Prosecutor John c. Kelley over
the type of insanity which Massie would
plead, preceded the heutenant's story.
Kelley demanded that the defense
name the kind of insanity it would
plead. Darrow answered that he old
not know because doctors had dis
agreed en- this point. Superior Judge
Charles S. Davis said he could not in
sist upon Darrow's naming the type
If the latter did not know what tc
call it.
Previously the witness had told how
Mrs Massie had given him the story Of
an attack upon her after she left g
dance hall where party of naval Of.
ficers and their wives had been spend
ing the evening last September II.
With his gaze on the floor and II
hollow and sometimes harsh voice
Massie took up his narrative after Oar
row had named him as the man whC
had held the pistol that killed Kahaha.
wal. Mhe Fortescue went
Massie began his story of the alb
duction and killing after spectator!
entering the court room had beer
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