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...This is a swell jail!" remarked Seaman Jones. "A lot better than Al Capone...
...smile on my mother's face when she learns I'm free!" exclaimed Lieut. Massie after hugging his wife and kissing his mother-in-law. Mrs. Massie was "thrilled" at the outcome. Mrs. Fortescue, almost weeping with delight, rushed off a message to her husband while Seaman Jones cabled his mother in New Bedford, Mass.: "Will be home soon. Keep the coffee hot." Clarence Darrow, defense counsel, beamed satisfaction, shook hands all around...
...days when my daughter's name was suppressed . . . were worse than these last few weeks. ... I have slept better since . . . the day of the murder than for a long time. . . . Now, of course, I realize we bungled dreadfully, although at the time I thought we were being careful." Seaman Albert O. Jones, U. S. N., held as accomplice of Lieut. Massie, proudly exhibited to Reporter Owen a fat scrapbook of news clippings about the case, pointed to a statement of his own that he was too drunk the day of the murder to remember what occurred...
...Able Seaman Thomas Morris had one more month of submarine service in Britain's Navy. His wife had the days marked on a calendar. Last summer when the Poseidon sank off the coast of China with 20 men, Able Seaman Morris saved himself by jumping over the side as she went down. Last week he was aboard the M-2 off the Bill of Portland in that part of the English Channel known as "Dead Man's Bay" because of the number of ships wrecked there during the War. At 10:30 one morning the M-2 radioed...
...Fortescue and her son-in-law hired able legal counsel, refused to make any statement. Because Hawaiians milled menacingly about the city jail, the three defendants were turned over to the Navy for safekeeping aboard the U. S. S. Alton. The Navy Department ordered that Lieut. Massie and Seaman Lord should not be released to civil authorities unless it was so directed. Should civil authorities demand custody of Mrs. Fortescue the Navy would be without jurisdiction...