The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-08

Group of Many Racial
Blends Is to Hear Muir
der Case.
CALL TWO ALIENISTS
Arrival of Los Angeles
Experts Hints Defense of
Sudden Insanity.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright 1882 by United Pressl
HONOLULU, April ga jury OF
many strange racial mixtures will
decide the fate of an American So
ciety matron and three navy men,
who stood ready today to plead the
unwritten law against charges of
Staying a brown-skinned native
youth.
Twelve men, ranging from Nordic
blends to tanned sons of the south
seas, we're bound together by a
common oath to uphold the law in
Hawaii's most famous murder case.
Defense and prosecution had
brought a balance between whites
and browns before agreeing on
panel.
Two other figures entered the case
today as the defendants waited at
Pearl Harbor navy base for re-
sumption of the trial Monday. They
were Drs. Edward Huntington Will
liams and James Orbison, Los
Angeles psychiatrists, who arrived
incognito in response to an urgent
summons
AlieniSts Are Summoned
With the jury finally chosen after
four days of legal maneuvering, the
presence of alienists was regarded
as Clarence Darrow's first surprise"
in bolStering the defenSe'S case.
Thus alarm clock" or temporary
nity-tantamount to the un-
written law-became the most likely
plea for Mrs. Granville Roland For
teScue, middle-aged New York and
Washington socialite; her young
son-in-law, Lieutenant Thomas H.
MasSie, and two seamen, Edward
Lord and Albert Jones.
Blocked from retaining DR.. Rob-
ert b Faus, Hawaii's only recog-
nized alienist, because he also is
city-county physician here, the de-
Tense caused no surprise by seeking
mainland experts.
Montgomery Winn, associated
with Darrow in defending the
Americans, neither would confirm
nor deny that they had called in
the Los Angeles doctors.
Experts Reach Islands
The United Press exclusively pre-
dicted the insanity defense soon
after Mrs. Fortescue and the others
were indicted on second degree
murder charges in the Staying of
Joe Kahahawai Jr., husky young
Hawaiian street car conductor.
Kahahawai was one of five
islanders accused of attacking the
lieutenants young wife, Thalia
Fortescue Massie.
DR.. Williams was recognized as he
and DR.. Orbison debarked from the
liner Malolo. Reluctantly he adj
mitted his identity. Neither had
been listed as passengers.
81 have been requested to come"
Dr. Williams said Il have no idea
what am supposed to do. All I
know is that we received a wire to
come. I can not say more until I
have conferred with those who sent
for us. After that we may have
something to say"
alarm Clock Insanity Defense
VIM indirectly admitted the
alienists will appear at the trial,
which will continue Monday with
Prosecutors John Kelley and Barry
Ulrich presenting first evidence by
which they hope to demand life
Imprisonment for the defendants.
AS described by defense attorneys
alarm clock" insanity is a form OF
temporary alteration to which
otherwise normal persons may lie
subject. A man reminded of some
terrific mental or physical strain
completely can lose control of him
self, psychologists explain.
1t was intimated the defendants
on seeing Kahahawai might have
been reminded of the brutal attack
on Mrs. Massie-a mental alarm
clock" goading its victims into sud-
den rage.
But Darrow will have many long
conflicts before his defense has its
day in court. The Shrewd veteran
Of many famous American trial
confessed himself frankly puzzled
by the oriental mind as typified
by talesmen appearing for jury duty.
Two OrientaIs on Jury
Only two orientals, however, we're
on the jury when the defense sud-
denly moved to accept the panel.
The prosecution agreed, although
barrow thereby was conceded a
slight margin of victory in his four
day fight to seat preponderance of
Caucasians.
The final jury was composed of
Olaf SorenSon, John F. Stone, Shat
ford Waterhouse, Charles H. Stroll
lin and Theodore Bush, Americans;
Willie Boyer, German; Edward
Goeas, Portuguese: Theodore Char
and Henry G. Y. Chang, Chinese;
Walter Napoleon, Hawaiian; George
Mcintyre and Charles Akana, part