Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 3

THE . EVENING o STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 1932. JUDD 0 PROPOSE | DEATH INATTACKS Extreme Penalty in Assault Cases Will Be Urged on Hawaii Legislature. By the A i Press HONOLULU, January 15.—In efforts to curb assaults upon women in Hono- lulu, Gov. Lawrence M. Judd expects to! recommend to the forthcoming special session of the Hawaiian Legislature that | the crime of rape be made punishable | by death or life imprisonment The Governor so announced in a cable to Secretary Wilbur of the Interior De- partment, in which he defended him- self against congressional charges of partial responsibility for the city’s crime situation While Judd prepared for the legis- | lative session Monday, defense attorneys chafed at the delay in presenting the grand jury murder charges against Mrs Granville Fortescue, society leader; her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas Massle, and two enlisted men Defense Hands Tied. “The defendants are held without bond and are entitled to be informed Eromptly as to the nature of the charges against them,” said Montgomery Winn | of the Fortescue-Massie staff. “The | hands of the defense are tied.” Deputy Prosecutor Griffith Wight said | the case would not be presented the | grand jury until next week | He explained the prosecution has not completed its investigation of the sl ing of Joseph Kahahawai, for whos death a week ago the four are accused The Hawailan was one of five men charged with assaulting the lieutenant's wife The to try fendants panel from which jurors Mrs. Fortescue and her co-de- will be selected was drawn yesterday. The 26 men included 6 Chi- nese, 5 Hawailans, 3 Japanese, 2 Por- tuguese and 10 Anglo-Saxons Meanwhile defense attorneys pub- lished a parallel list of prominent per- sons who have sent messages or sym- pathy to Mrs. Fortescue. They included Corcoran Thom, Washington banker Mrs. Edward McLean, wife of the Washington publisher; Joseph Patter- son, Chicago publisher, and May Wil- son’ Preston, New York illustrator Judd Explains Clemency. Gov. Judd, in his cable to Secretary | Wilbur, asserted that the person who | furnished information on which the | House Naval Subcommittee based its | criticism _of himself and other Ha- | walian officials, had been “grossly mis- informed He stated that he had granted execu- | tive clemency to Ben Ahakeulo, native | amateur boxer, who pleaded guilty to assault upon a Chinese girl in 1929 and now is held as one of tne attackers of Mrs. Thalia Massie, but sald evidence pointed to extenuating circumstances in the first case. Judd said the original case was one in which six boys were charged with at-| tacking & Chinese girl in 1929 and Aha- keulo had demanded a separate trial The Governor's report quoted the trial judge, A. M. Cristy, as saying the | evidence showed the girl in the case| had been free to leave the scene of at- | tack and had not done so. and that the five were convicted of a lesser charge of assault with intent to ravish | Judd said the record showed the jury “recommended leniency and that Judge, Cristy had imposed a minimum of four months and a maximum of fif- teen years, but from the bench recom- mended paroles at the end of the min- imum term if the prisoners’ conduct | were good. Judd said Ahakeulo later | first SPECIAL NOTICES. NUAL MEETING OF THE STO of the Glosgard Wardrobe Co will be held at 2609 Washington, District of January 23, 1932, | THE Al holders Ircorperated. place northwest Columbia, on Saturday, st 8 o'clock pm A D. HAWLEY, Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE- holders of The Cranford Company will be held at its office Washin to! business as may come before the meeting J H. CRANFORD, President H. L. CRANFORD. 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Special Cable to the Star HONOLULU, January conditions have not changed recently, and an American | visitor to the isiands at the present | time would realize what extensive in- justice is being done this American community by exaggerated reports lead- | ing the people who do not know Hawaii to believe orderly civilian government | has broken down. It is obvious from dispatches received here that large sec- tions of continental United States are receiving a terribly distorted picture of conditions in Honolulu and Hawaii gen- erally Responsible citizens and newspapers of Hawaii are not attempting to mini- mize the gravity of the attack on Mrs Massie or any other recent violent | crimes, but impartial investigation will show that stories of criminal assaults have been hugely exaggerated. Our record of assault cases is mot propor- | tionately higher than in the average | mainland city on the basis of available figures. Even some of the figures quoted in Navy official reports are refuted by reference to official figures of city hos- pitals staffed by reputable physicians and free of political influences and by reference to court proceedings likewise ably administered and free of politics. Island’s Glamour Cited. Hawaii's comparative isolation from continental United States, plus tradi- tional romance glamour and mystery of | the South Seas, plus dramatic elements of recent crimes, culminating in the Kahahawai kidnaping and killing, have furnished material for sensational stories 15— Hawaiian fundamentally gerated—Admits Emergency, but Says Island Can Handle It Effectively. | second. | recognize such an_emergency here as tions Describe Stories of Violence Exag- far beyond actual facts. Hawaii coun- tenances neither attacks on women nor lynch law and both crimes are abhor- rent to peace loving and law abiding people of this Territory. We desire particularly to emphasize first that re-| cent crimes are due in no sense to racial feeling or race mixtures here; that Hawaii realizes fully the need for strengthening certain features of our laws and enforcement machinery and was moving definitely and swiftly to do so before the Kahahawai killing, Our fellow citizens on the mainland should understand that we live under substantially the same structure laws they do. with substantially the same legislative authorities and powers, and our changes in administrative machinery must be accomplished according to legal procedure. Legislature Called. Nothing approaching a breakdown of law or warranting martial law has oc- curred. A special session of the Legis- lature has been called to meet Mon- day, January 18, to amen dthe city charter, taking the police department as far as possible from politics. Both of these changes were under considera- tion long before this series of crimes started. Meanwhile the city is quiet and vis- itors, as well as Army and Navy per- sonnel, are going about the city as usual. Hawaii has developed under the American flag a large measure of self- government which, on the whole, has | been capably administered, and Hawaii has ample capacity determination and experience to meet this critical situation and take necessary remedial steps. We | many another American city faced when sudden crimes of violence broke out and we know we can, with equal devotion and effectiveness, handle the situation along American standards and ideals such as would satisfy our fellow Amer- icans of the mainland were they here. pleaded guilty to the reduced charge and received a similar sentence Approved by Board. | Judd said he granted the parole in the case only after the prison board had made a favorable recommendation | and after an investigation and personal interview with the prisoners. The Honolulu Board of Supervisors indorsed the special session of the territorial Legislature. The supervisors suggested enactment of measures LO\ bring about reorganization of the city’s | law-enforcement department They | expressed confidence in Judd's leader- | ship. The Chamber of Comynerce offered a reward of $1,000 for information lead- ing to the capture alive of Daniel Lyman, convicted murderer, who, with | Kaikapu, escaped from the territorial | prison December 31 . Two days later Kaikapu assaulted a | white woman while officers were search- | ing for him. He was caught and given | a life sentence after pleading guilty to the attack charge. It was learned that Alexander G. M. | Robertson, chief justice of the terri- torial Supreme Court for two_terms by‘ appointment of Presidents Taft and Wilson, was considering an offer to| serve as special prosecutor in both the murder case and in the retrial of the| four men charged with attacking Mrs. Massie. | MAJ. FORRESCUE BETTER. ; Condition Very Good, Physicians at Hospital Announce. | NEW YORK, January 15 (#)—Maj. | Granville R. Fortesque, wWhose wife and | son-in-law are held in Honolulu in con- nection with the slaying of a Hawaiian, | was e in “very good” condition | today at the hospital, where he is pneumonia patient DEFENDS MRS. FORTESCUE. Stepmother in France Insists Matron Is Innocent. MENTONE, France, January 15 () —Mrs. Charles J. Bell, stepmother of Mrs. Granville Fortescue, who is held on a murder charge in Honolulu, said yesterday that she was certain Mrs Fortescue had nothing to do with the crime. “If T thought there was the slightest chance that she had anything to do with it I would go back fo the United States at once.” she said, “but I am planning to stay here. Mrs. Bell made two telephone calls to Honolulu, and said she was assured her stepdaughter was innocent SCHOOL HEAD SUICIDE DERRY, N. H. January 15 (P)—An autopsy has satisfied police that Carl Cotton. 52, head of Pinkerton Academy and superintendent of schools here, who was found dead in his office yes- terday, was a suicide. | Cotton was found with a rope arownd his neck by a school nurse and police at first were baffied as to the circum- stances of his death. Will Rogers S. S RAWALPINDI—Will somebody please wire me C. O. D. something thats happened at home -since November 21, my day of sailing! Did he Democrats take Congress? Did Jimmy Walker get Mooney out? Who won the foot ball game in Pasa- dena? All I hear is, “Culbertson won five rubbers”; “Cul- bertson won three rubbers.” Who is Culbertson and who is rubber? If he is that _important there let's run him on the Democratic ticket. That will cure him of rubbering. On an English boat and I have mis- placed by dress suit and letters of in- troduction. so I haven't eaten anything or met any one. (Copyright, 1932 Havana-Vera Cruz Flight First. VERA CRUZ. 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There was a brief debate over whether the resolution should go to the committee before being acted on. After he had been advised that the Territories Committee would meet tomorrow to consider what report | should be made on the resolution Sen- ator McKellar did not press further for action today Before it was decided to await a re- port from the Territories Committee, | Senator Borah, Republican, of Idahq, indicated he wanted to be heard before the Senate takes final action “I want to be heard as to whether | there ought to be a Sendte investiga- uon,” Senator Borah said. He added that the people of Hawaii have a dif- ficult situation confronting them and that he is not in favor of “placing them on trial by the Senate before there is an opportunity to see whether they can work out the problem.” Wilbur to Testify. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will appear tomorrow before the House com mittee investigating the Hawaiian sit- uation. The Secretary, who has charge of Hawaiian affairs, said today he would be in position to answer all questions. He has refrained from making any statement other than to say that he had confidence in Gov. Lawrence M. Judd and that he was certain the civil government there would be able to han- dle the situation. i Thorough Probe Ordered. A thorough overhauling of the law- enforcement machinery in the Islands may result from a study to be conducted on the spot immediately by Seth W. Richardson, Assistant Attorney General Outcome of the Massie-Fortescue in- cident in Honolulu, the Justice Depart- ment investigation. requested by Senate resolution, took definite form last night with announcement of detailed instruc- tions from Attorney General Mitchell to_ his assistant. Richardson will leave at the earliest possible time with a staff of six or more | aides; will study every angle of the local | enforcement machinery with a view to possible recommendations for changes, and will go also into the operation of Federal courts there in prohibition and narcotic cases. Mitchell made it clear he was not in any way prejudging the agencies of justice in the islands, nor intimating that reorganization was needed, but he asked Richardson to study courts, police, jury systems and parole board. | He is to ascertain whether, under present administration of the organic law of the islands, jurors of the best type are obtained: whether the parole system is operated on modern line: whether the efficiency and discipline of the police are open to improvement, and similar points At the same time he was given blanket authority to “go into any phas: of the matter that you deem advisable The Massie-Fortescue case will be| gone into from the ground up, gather- ing information on the spot in complete disregard of already accumulated state- ments, 5o as to avoid any distortion and exaggeration. Court Rules to Be Probed. The Federal Court part of the in- quiry, unconnected with the present | case, was ordered by Mitchell because | he held. efficiency of Federal statute enforcement had a vital bearing on the general crime situation. | Richardson was specifically advised ‘o | g0 into the rules of evidence in criminal cases, such as the law preventing con- viction in assault cases solely on ev dence of the prosecutrix. Mitchell said it was not clear to him that corrobora- tion should be required on identity of the offender, if the fact that force had been used was properly established Richardson probably will sail from sSan Prancisco, January 29 aboard the President Lincoln, which is due in Honolulu February | tescue, one of the four persons charged | | my admiration and respect for your magnificent courage in this overwhelm- | | count on me.” | them at the time of the attack in Sep- | ! the United State: | ing to worry about.’ wxx A3 ] FRIENDS IN WASH SYMPATHY TO vealed by Defen Honolulu S1 By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, January 15.—Messages of sympathy and encouragement from prominent men and women in the United States to Mrs. Granville For- with the murder of a young native ac- cused of attacking her daughter, were | made public by defense attorneys. | The names and the messages, as an-| nounced by Montgomery Winn of de-| fense council, were irs. Eva Stotesbury of Philadelphia. | —“Dear Gracle, this brings you my love and heartiest sympathy and also| ing misfortune. I would have done the same thing in your place and so would any other good mother. If there is anything I can do for you or yours,| Mrs. Breckenridge Long of Baltimore. —"Love and sympathy.” Joseph Patterson of New York, news- paper publisher—“Admiration ~ and sympathy.” ATTACKED WOMAN DEFENDED BY SISTER Marion Fortescue, at Oxford, De-| Stories Sensational in Hawaii Case. plores By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 15.—Marion For- tescue, younger daughter of Mrs. Gran- ville Fortescue, who is charged in Hono- lulu with the slaying of a Hawaiian in connection with an attack on another daughter last September, was quoted by the Daily Mail today as saying she thought it~ “quite wrong to suggest” that her sister was “indiscretely wan- dering in the native quarter late at| night” when the attack occurred The younger girl is a student at Ox- | ford University. 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