Word: kahahawai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lunacy plea; 5) John Scopes, violation (1925) of Tennessee's anti-evolution statute-fined $100, after Darrow had quizzed William Jennings Bryan on the Bible's veracity (Bryan died at the conclusion of the trial); 6) Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, honor-murderer (1932) in Honolulu of Joseph Kahahawai Jr.-found guilty of manslaughter...
...Fortescue. Thalia Fortescue Massie, his wife, was also there. About them they had assembled Navy friends for a celebration because for the first time in four months Lieut. Massie and Mrs. Fortescue, with Seamen Jones and Lord, were once again legally free. Their sentences for the killing of Joseph Kahahawai Jr. had been duly served...
...exactly 11 a.m. all four prisoners were ushered down a hall and into the office of Governor Lawrence McCully Judd. To each he handed a paper commuting their sentences to the time already served. By telescoping ten years into one hour the Kahahawai case was thus closed with one final dramatic fillip...
There was even a report that Secretary of the Interior Wilbur had radiotelephoned. In Honolulu a Navy boycott against concerns employing Kahahawai jurors was threatening serious economic damage to the business community. One juror had been threatened with "a ride." Governor Judd's nerves were raw with worry. He was friendly with the brown islanders but, after all, he was a white...
...Massie and his wife. Mrs. Massie scampered around a potato bin, through a pantry-and there in a hot corridor stood Mookini with his summons. Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck blew the ail-ashore bugle. Mookini got off; Mrs Massie stayed...