HONOLULU TRIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 119, 20 April 1932, Page 7

HONOLULU TRIAL.

Received April 20, 8.5 a.m. HONOLULU, April 18. Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, under cross-examination at tho Kahahawai murder trial, revealed that he had been to'.d by others that after the killing he stood like “a bump on a log” unable to speak. Edward Jones, one of the accused, had told him that he had acted like a fool. These and other details which were revealed completed the story of the killing under mental lapse, while attempting to extract a confession of assault. The case fqr the defence is now al- , most complete, except possible alienists’ testimony. Mr Clarence S. Darrow, probably the most famed criminal attorney in America, is defending Mrs Grace Fortescue and her co-defendants in the Kahahawai murder trial. “The idea of going to Honolulu in the spring appealed as much as anything,” Darrow said in explaining his acceptance of the invitation, “and the doctor advised it.” Mr Darrow has been con-) nected with some of the most prominent legal cases in the history of America, including the Debs strike case, the Los Angeles dynamite case, the Loeb and Leopold trial and the Scopes evolution trial.