Evening star., 1932-01-09
MURDER IN HAWAII
AS ACT Of REVENGE
LA|DTOD.C. MATRON
Son-in-IaW, a Navy Officer,
and Enlisted Sailor Also
Are Accused.
MRS. FORTESCUE KNOWN
WELL IN WASHINGTON
Daughter of Late Charles J. Bell.
Crime Climaxes Assaults
and High Feeling.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, January 9-Police TO-
day charged a naval officer and his
socially prominent mother-in-law had
sought to avenge with murder a crimi-
nal attack upon the officers wife.
While oficials pleaded with hysteri-
cal city for calmness and order, Mrs.
Grace Bell Fortescue of New York and
Washington, Lieut.. Thomas H. Massie,
U. S. NJ, her son-in-law, and E. ].
Lord Navy enlisted man, were charged
with murder and held in custody at
Pearl Harbor, naval base, aboard the
receiving ship Alton.
Well Known Here.
(Mrs. Grace Bell Fortescue is the
daughter of the late Charles J. Bell,
Washington banker, and has been So
cially prominent in the East since her
debutante days.
Her husband, Granville Fortescue,
writer and soldier, has had an adven-
turous career. A cousin of Theodore
Roosevelt, he served with his distin-
guished kinsman in the Rough Riders,
and when Roosevelt came to the presi-
dency Fortescue was made a White
House aide. He was also a war CORE
spondent and served in the American
Army in the World War. They were
married in 1910.
Mrs. Massie, the former Thalia
Fortescue, is one of four daughters.
She was presented to society in Wash
ington and on Thanksgiving day, 1927
was married TO the then Ensign T. H.
Massie at Washington Cathedral. Ave
months after Massie had been grad
uated from Annapolis.
Lieut.. Massie halls from Winches-
ter, Ky)
Shots Fired at Car.
Police searched Mrs. Fortescue's
house and said they found signs of a
struggle, bed room door dangling
from twisted hinge, blood stains on
the bed room floor and one sheet miss
ing.
The body OF Joseph Kahahawaf,
Hawaiian, one of five men awaiting
trial for assaulting Mrs. Massie last
September, was found late yesterday in
an automobile driven by Mrs. Fortescue
with Lieut.. Massie and Lord as passen-
gers. 1t was wrapped in sheet. The
Hawaiian had been shot through the
heart
When driven off the road by police
the death car was speeding toward
koko Head, where the tides flow rapidly
through the channel between the
Islands of Oahu and Molokai. Police
said they had chased the automobile
10 miles and fired several shots in at
tempts to halt It,
None of the three would make any
statement about the matter.
Al Jones, Navy enlisted man, was
found on guard at the Fortescue resi-
dence, ana was taken into custody.
Upon him police said they found a
magazine from a 80 automatic, with
one cartridge missing, and fake sum-
mons addressed to Kahahawai.
1t was this summons, police asserted,
which lured the young Hawaiian into al
automobile from the court room where,
as one charged with serious crime and
at liberty pending trial, he had gone to
make his daily report.
Climax to Disorders.
The Staying climaxed series Of
events which in the last few weeks
have aroused Honolulu residents deep
y. Following an attack upon school
teacher last week, Gov Lawrence M.
Judd ordered all police agencies to
rid Honolulu Of vice" Earlier Horace
Ida, island-born Japanese, co-defen6
ant with Kahahawai in the trial, had
been beaten by mob of 20 men and
several minor riots had broken out in
the city
An escaped prisoner from Oahu
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