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Last week Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commandant of the Hawaiian Naval District, reported to the Navy Department that four days later the jury again (11-to-9) refused to indict, suggesting that the charge be changed to manslaughter; again adjourned. That afternoon, he said, it was allowed to vote (12-to-8) a charge of second-degree murder. Two more jurors resigned...
...Frankfort the Kentucky General Assembly petitioned President Hoover to free Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and the two naval enlisted men, held at Honolulu, pending trial for the murder of an Hawaiian who allegedly raped Mrs. Massie (TIME...
...Washington President Hoover pondered the Hawaiian situation with his Cabinet. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur loyally sustained Governor Judd. Secretary of the Navy Adams continued to complain that he was not satisfied with "justice" on the islands...
...calm and comforting men, all held for murder. The prisoners: Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, middle-aged Washington socialite; Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N., her young son-in-law, and E. J. Lord and Albert Orrin Jones, naval enlisted men. The charge: they had kidnapped and murdered a Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai, accused, with four others of mixed blood, of raping young Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, Jan. 18). Arrested fortnight ago by the Honolulu police as they were speeding the Kahahawai corpse to Koko Head, all four had been turned over to the Navy for safe keeping...
...Fortescue's] attorneys would make my message public. They evidently believed this publicity would be of some benefit to her. ... If so, I am content to endure the personal notoriety aroused. . . . Unfortunately the Press, without any authority from me, has assumed that I believed Mrs. Fortescue herself killed the Hawaiian Kahahawai to avenge her daughter...