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After the judge's departure everyone stood around in the courtroom chatting easily while High Sheriff Gordon Ross guarded his prisoners. Soon the four "convicts" were herded across the sunny street to Iolani Palace, once the home of Hawaiian Kings, now the office of the territorial governor. There they sat waiting in a high-ceiled, red-carpeted inner room for a few minutes more...
That was how the jury, 30 minutes out of its box in the Honolulu courtroom, stood on its first ballot. Of the five Americans, three Chinese, a Dane, a German, a Portuguese and a Hawaiian, only a minority were for convicting Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, his mother-in-law, and Seamen Lord and Jones for the second-degree murder of Joseph Kahahawai Jr. After that, locked in around the long table with Foreman John Stone at its head, the jurors settled down to harangue one another on Hawaii's most sensational case...
...conclusion of the exercises in the Stadium, supper will be served with music for dancing by Ruby Newman's orchestra in Eliot and Lowell Houses while in Winthrop and Leverett the supper will be accompanied by Hawaiian guitar music. The supper music will be interrupted for the Instrumental Clubs' concert but will be continued again at 9.30 o'clock for dancing until midnight...
...erected in front of the old Freshman Gymnasium and an amplifying system installed so that the music may be heard in all parts of the triangle. The numbers to be rendered by the Instrumental Clubs include presentations by the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, and specialty pieces by an Hawaiian Guitar quartet, and a vocal trio with guitar accompaniment...
With all testimony in, the polyglot Honolulu jury trying Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and two naval enlisted men for second-degree murder, was left last week with a split-second blind spot on the actual killing of Joseph Kahahawai Jr., Hawaiian buck. Nowhere in the sworn evidence was an eye-witness account of all that happened that early January morning at Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue's. Between the time Kahahawai, cowed by a revolver held by Lieut. Massie, allegedly confessed to the ravishment of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie and a bullet...