HONOLULU TRIAL.
NAVAL OFFICER'S ADMISSION.
TEMPORARY INSANITY PLEA. (Received April 1". 5.5 p.m.) HONOLULU, April 16. The trial was continued to-day of Mrs. Korteseuc, her son-in-law, Lieutenant T. H. Massie, of the United States Navy, and two bluejackets, E. J. Lord and Albert 0. Jones, on a joint chargo of kidnapping and murdering a native, Joe Kahahawai.
Lieutenant Massie admitted that he was holding a gun when Kahahawai was killed, but said lie did not remember what happened. Counsel for the defence, Mr. Clarence Harrow, informed the Court he intended lo show that Massie was temporarily insane, at the time of the crime, when he was attempting to extort a confession of the, assault, on Mrs. Massie from Kahahawai by threats. Mr. Harrow is indisposed, but the trial is to bo continued. The, prosecution intends to attack the admissibility of evidence in regard lo the assault on Mrs. Massie.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21160, 18 April 1932, Page 9
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