Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1932 — Page 7

ArRIL 19, 1932

MASSIE FIRM IN DENIAL OF PLOT TO RILL Clings to Story of 'Mental Blank’ as State Pounds at Testimony. RY DAN CAMPBELL I'alted Press SUIT Correspondent HONOLULU, April 19.—A puzzled Jury of varied races looked to Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie’s three co-defendants in the honor slaying of a young Hawaiian today for a solution to the deepening mystery of Joe Kahahawai's death. Defiant after two days of bitter cross-examination, the wiry-haired lieutenant left the stand unshaken in this story that blankness shadowed his mind after Kahahawai confessed participating in an attack on 20-ycar-old Thalia Fortescue Massie. Corroboration of Massie’s testimony was expected when Clarence Darrow, shrewd director of defense maneuvers, announced one or possibly two of the remaining defendants would testify. Albert O. Jones, veteran navy enlisted man, who with his “buddy,” Edward J. Lord, was nearby when Kahahawai met violent death, was considered the most likely witness. Mrs. Grace Hubbard Fortescue. the lieutenant's mother-in-law may testify as the only eye-witness, but her distraught, nerves possibly will prevent. Aborts Brain Snapped Massie's vivid description of how his tortured brain snapped under the strain of a three-months ordeal remained the highlight of the trial ns Darrow began summoning minor witnesses. Ponderously, Prosecutor John C. Kelley pounded at Massie’s testimony in an attempt to trip him. Always a closed signal met the prosecutor as he approached thesubject of Massie's “blackout." Over and over, he repeated the story—how he wanted a confession of the attack from Kahahawai to quiet unkind rumors about Mrs. Massie, and so spirited the native to Mrs. Fortescue’s cottage; how he held a gun to “frighten” Kahahawai. who at last said, “Yes, we clone it." “I don’t know what happened next,” Massie insisted. “The next thing I knew, policeman in uniforms were taking me to the station. Wahahawai, they told me, was dead.” Recalls Dark Hours Before that, he shudderingly recalled the dark hours of his life's tragedy, beginning last September when his wife fell victim to a gang of five native hoodlums. She was broken in mind and body by the mistreatment, he said, and a "melting pot” jury refused to convict the attackers she named. “She told me that she begged Kahahawai for mercy and he broke her jaw, laughing as he did it,” repeated Massie, drawing a handkerchief over his furrowed brow. “You planned to kill him, didn’t you?” shouted the prosecutor. “No, Mr. Kelley.” He remembered nothing, he continued, of how Kahahawai's body, wrapped in a sheet, came to be in an automobile speeding with Mrs. Lord and Masvsie toward Koko Head geyser. Dr. Paul Withington, who attended Mrs. Massie after the attack, testified her husband visibly lost weight and was near collapse. Major Gordon Ross, high sheriff of Oahu, said Massie told him Kahahawai was “ready to crack” and asked the officer to question him. Attorney in Confirmation Attorney Eugene H. Beebe verified the navy officer’s statement that he was advised a confession from one of the attackers was the only means of silencing the ugly rumors. Leo Artrnan. navy chief quartermaster, who wore many gold jum stripes, was the last defense Wrtness Monday. He attacked Kelley s claim that the slaying was premeditated by testifying a piece of rope found around the native's neck was obtained by Massie a month before the native died. Jones smilingly passed a note to the United Press. It read: "Those gold hash marks mean twelve years of service without a black mark on his (Artman s) record. and, believe me, you have to earn them in this man's navy.” PLEASANT RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION Shoulders droop under weight of years. Young, yet beauty has fled. Cheeks are sallow and drawn. Unsightly pimples. Keep your system clean and you keep the beauty of j-outh. Its energy, its irresistible Qharm. Then life is not a failure. ! Clogged bowels and inactive liver (jause poisons to seep through the system. Health vanished and with it beauty and energy. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets will help save you from this dark hour. For 20 years they have been prescribed in place of galomel to men and women seeking aealth and freedom from constipation. They act easily and smoothly. No c.i.puiK. J’ake nightly bcij retiring. Results will amaze vou. , Thousands of men and women would !*o\er be without Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets, a vegetable eomponnd. Know litem by their olive color. 15e. 30c and rttV. All druggists.—Advertisement.

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ALL this touting of Charles Mann. Marion county highway superintendent, as a great public servant apparently Is giving the disinterested public a pain in the neck. For no apparent reason. Mann is placed on a pedestal and if you ask the boys at the courthouse, they will say the answer Is "politics.’’ The culpable person in the picture is Democratic county commissioner, who has been attempting the weird feat of sitting on both sides df the fence so long that he could pass for a contortionist. If you haven't met Vorhies, you should, for, according to Democratic leaders, every organization has its cross to bear and in that party’s case the particular cross'is Vorhies. But let’s go back a couple of months. When Tom Ellis became the second Democratic member of the board of county commissioners, he conferred with Vorhies and the pair decided to replace Mann with a “deserving Democrat.” But instead of consulting the county organization Heads, they went ahead and appointed John Mann, chicken dinner place operator. nun Urged on by Republican workers, Charlie refused to vacate, because he said he had a four-year contract dating from Jan. 1, 1930, given to him by the Coffin county commissioners. And as a real Coffin boy he w r ould not get out. Republican papers swung into

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P.-T. A. EVENTS INCLODE PLAYS AND ADDRESSES Judge Baker and Superintendent Paul C. Stetson to Make Talks. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Paul C. Stetson, city school superintendent. and F. O. Belzer. Boy Scout executive, are among speakers for city Parent-Teacher Association meetings this week, it was announced today. Program of association activities for the week follows: Belzer will speak at school No. 33 at 8 Wednesday night. Parents are invited to visit the different rooms of the school between 7 and 8. Stetson, school superintendent. will speak on “Ethics of Being a Good School Patron" at school No. 39 at 2:30 Wecincsdav. A plaviet. "The Young George Washington." will be given by the children of Miss Louise McCormick and Miss Busnetta Miller. H. Walden Midd’esworth, city recreation director, will speak at school No. 50 Wednesday afternoon. Entertainment will be provided by pupils of Miss Vera Nixon and Miss Sarah Rundburg. Judge Baker will speak at school No. 55 at 7:30 Wednesday. Pupils of Jac Broderick will give dance numbers. Professor J. J. Haramy of Indiana Central college will speak on "What Is a Man Worth?” at school No. 78 at 3:15 Wednesday. Music will be furnished by the music department. Men cf school No. 75 will give a minstrel under direction of Bob Shank at 7:15 Wednesday. Child Study Club of school No. 76 will meet Wednesdav morning. De Witt Morgan. principal of Technical high "school, will speak on Developing the Child's Personality." Mrs. Clavton Ridge will speak at school No. 81 at 2:30 Weoncsday. Music will be furnished by the Arthur Jprdan Conservatory of Music. Julian Coleman, vice-principal of Cris-

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