Evening star., 1932-04-13
NE|GHBORS TO TELL
WHAT THEY SAWAT
FORTESCUE HOME
Only Eleven Prosecution Wit
neSseS Remain to Be Heard
in Honolulu Trial.
WOMAN is UNDISTURBED
BY TESTIMONY IN CASE
Patrolman Describes How Lieut..
Massie Congratulated Self
After Being Arrested.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
HONOLULU, April 13-Relying upon
the eyes and ears of Mrs. Granville
Fortescues neighbors for the final phase
OF its case, the Territory set out today
to complete its web of circumstantial
evidence against the society woman and
three men Of the Navy accused of lynch
ing Joseph Kahahawai.
Three of the eleven remaining prose-
cution witnesses were called to tell what
they saw and heard at the Fortescue
home January 8, the day Kahahawai
was abducted and slain.
BY a procession of witnesses. most of
them police officers, the prosecution
yesterday carried its story from the
point where the body was found to the
darkened home of the accused woman,
where the killing allegedly took place.
Mrs Fortescue Unmoved.
Mrs. Fortescue sat through the ses-
sion apparently unmoved, even when
the blood-stained sheets that had
shrouded Kahahawais body were un-
folded and waved before the jurors of
widely varied racial origin. Occasion
ally she glanced at Clarence Darrow,
leaoer OF the defense, but most of the
time she kept her gaze on the back of
chair Immediately in front of her.
On today's list of prosecution wit
nesSes was Mrs. Shizuko Yamamoto.
who lived next door to the Fortescue
nome: The prosecution expected her
to tell how, while sitting alone, she
saw Mrs. Fortescue pull down a window
shade in the rear of the Fortescue
home about $50 am.
Mrs. Helen Stickney, who was visit
ing her sister, Mrs Anne Tarleton.
next door to the Fortescue home, was
called to repeat her story previously
told to Prosecutor John C. Kelley
that she heard what sounded like
muffied pistol shot.
Victoria Akana, matron at the
police station, was summoned to testify
that she took from Mrs. Fortescue's
person after the latter's arrest a strip
of cloth apparently torn from sheet.
This strip fits the missing part of one
OF the sheets which was wrapped about
Kahahawai's body.
Servant to Testify.
A Japanese servant girl also was on
the witness list. She previously told
authorities that on the day before
Kahahawai was killed Mrs. Fortescue
paid her wages and instructed her not
to return until Saturday, the day after
the lynching.
Officers told yesterday Of the recov-
cry of the lynching victims body
O oI1tNT hill zAAfr
OF the defendants, Mrs. Fortescue,
Lieut.. Thomas H. Massie and Edward
J. Lord
A policeman testified that the sheets
on bed in the Fortescue home were
missing. Another witness identified q
coil of rope found in the house as
Identical with that wound around the
sheet-wrapped body Still another tes-
titled that he found a photograph of
kahahawai in a purse belonging to
Mrs. Fortescue.
Percy Bond, radio car patrolman,
said Mrs. Fortescue had conversed with
him upon his arrival at the place where
the arrests we're made He said she had
asked if she had not met him on a
Hawaiian bound steamship and he had
replied negatively.
Shook Own Hands.
Bond testified that when he said,
Good work, kid" to George Won Arms
wald, who stopped the death car and
arrested the trio, Lieut.. Massie wheeled
and said:
Are you talking to me?"
Before he could reply, Bond said,
Massie shook hands with himself and
said, Thank you very much"
Through the Associated Press Lieut..
Massie sent a message to his mother,
Mrs W. S. Massie of Winchester, KY.
1t said
Dearest Mother-Please don't worry.
Have courage and everything will be all
right. Love. Tommy"
Kahahawai and four other men were
awaiting retrial on charges Of having
Mrs. Massie. daughter of Mrs.
Fortescue, when the killing occurred.
She is a game girl" Lieut.. Massie
said. referring to his wife. She is bear-
ing up under it fine"