Word: kahahawai
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...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...
...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...
...cabling the mainland truthfully stark accounts of conditions. Native attacks on white women became so prevalent, protection by the native police appeared so ineffective and bungling, that admirals in charge at Pearl Harbor publicly announced that Oahu was unsafe for the wives of naval officers. Then came the Kahahawai murder?apparently a blinding flash of white revenge...
Honolulu police officers piled up a damaging case against Mrs. Fortescue and Lieut. Massie. The motive for murder seemed obvious. They reconstructed the killing thus: Kahahawai was lured into the sedan, after Mrs. Fortescue's identification, by means of a faked warrant bearing the seal of the Chemical Warfare School in Maryland. He was taken to the Massie cottage in Manoa Valley where he was put into a tub of water, shot and allowed to bleed to death. His corpse was undressed and wrapped in bed sheets from which all laundry marks had been clipped. To support their theory...
...Fortescue is ever brought to trial, few whites in Honolulu believed that she would be convicted of a part in the Kahahawai murder. U. S. residents might deplore the stupidity of her alleged crime and its bungling methods but most of them at heart fully sympathized with her desperation in behalf of her daughter's honor and were ready to give her their moral support. Last week no less a per son than Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operation in Washington seemed to give Lieut. Massie a friendly pat on the shoulder when he declared...