DRAMA ON LINER
ECHO OF "HONOUR SLAYING" CASE Mrs Thalia Massie, the woman who figured in the " honour slaying " case in Honolulu in 1932, has been concerned in another drama, this time on board the Italian liner Roma. A steward, Alfredo Pellissero, heard groans from her cabin at midnight. He forced the door and found Mrs Massie bleeding from cuts on both wrists. Each cut was about an inch long, and had been inflicted apparently by a safety razor blade. , Mrs Massie was removed to the ship s hospital, where she was kept until she was put ashore at Genoa. A different version of the affair says that Mrs Massie fell from the top to the lower deck of the Roma. In February Mrs Massie obtained a divorce at Reno, Nevada, from her husband, Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, of the United States Navy. The day after the decree.she collapsed in a night club, and it was alleged that she had attempted to take poison, but was prevented in time.
Lieutenant Massie, his mother-in-law, Mrs Fortescue, and two American seamen were sentenced to 10 years in 1932 at Honolulu for the manslaughter of a Hawaiian who was alleged to have been the leader of five men who assaulted Mrs Massie. The sentences were immediately commuted to one hour's imprisonment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 12
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218DRAMA ON LINER Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 12
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