Word: kahahawai
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...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...
...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...
Under the law they had to trust their recollection on all the things that had been said in court during the three-week trial. They had heard Prosecutor Kelley's witnesses give an account of Kahahawai's kidnapping and the discovery of his corpse. They had listened to Lieut. Massie's long story of how his wife had been ravished, its effect on his mind, his success in extorting a confession from Kahahawai just before, with a revolver in his hand, his mind went blank. Pretty young Thalia Fortescue Massie had dramatically corroborated her husband's tale. Alienists had sworn...
Lawyer Darrow's whole case was based on the assumption that Lieut. Massie, in a fit of insanity induced by the confession of his wife's ravisher, actually did pull the trigger that resulted in Kahahawai's death. If the young husband who held the gun and did not recall firing it could be cleared by the jury, the case against the other three defendants in no way linked to the shooting would also fall flat...
...days the trial was delayed while the prosecution rounded up some alienists of its own to swear with equal positiveness that Lieut. Massie was sane when Kahahawai was shot. Lawyer Darrow would not allow Dr. Joseph Catton and Paul Bowers, both also of California, to examine his client. But that did not prevent the pair from testifying after a perusal of the court record...