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Show Jury Deliberates As "Honor Slaying" Trial Is Concluded v ;. ' ; . r" ' L Fate of Four Americans In Hands of Mixed Jury; Darrow Makes Impassioned Plea for Liberty; Four Verdicts Possible. HONOLULU, April 28 (U.R) A jury of Caucasians, natives and Chinese today considered whether four American honor slayers should be punished for the slaying of Joe Ka-hahawai, Ka-hahawai, a native accused of attacking the wife of a United States naval officer. An impassioned plea for liberty by Clarence Darrow and a blunt, biting demand from Prosecutor John Kelly for punishment and "justice," were the final episodes in this Mramatic trial before Judge Charles Davis sent the jury away to deliberate. delib-erate. It has four courses of action; ac-tion; 1 Guilty of second degree mur-; der, punishable by imprisonment of from 20 years to life. 2 Guilty of manslaughter. 3 Not guilty by reason of insanity. in-sanity. 4 Not guilty. Killed To Avenge Separate verdicts may be re-1 turned for each of the four Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, U. S. N., Mrs. ! Granville Fortescue, A. O. Jones and E. J. Lord. The verdict not guilty by reason of insanity may be returned only for Massie, since for him alone was the insanity defense de-fense offered. , They are accused of slaying the native to avenge the attack of five men on Thalia Fortescue Massie, wife of the naval officer, and rlniirfhtpr nf Mro ITni'tooiio The jurors retired for deliberations delibera-tions at 4:25 p. m. (Honolulu time .u- S-55 p. m. C S.T.) . Wednesday and when they were led out to dinner an hour later gave no indication indi-cation of the verdict being close. The jury resumed deliberations at 7:40 p. m. (12:10 a. m. C. S. T.) The jury retired for the night at 10:01 p. m. (2:31 a. m. C. S. T.) Judge Davis instructed them to report back after breakfast not later than 9 a. m. He said, however, how-ever, he would not receive a verdict before that hour even if one was reached. The ' jurors filed out with no trace of the smiles they showed at dinner last night. They were plainly plain-ly fatigued. |