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Show AMERICANS CONVICTED 61 JURY Verdict Is Surprising To Darrow, Four Defendants. HONOLULU, April 30 (U.R) An American society matron, ma-tron, her naval lieutenant son-in-law, and two sailors stood convicted today in the "honor slaying" of Joe Kaha-hawai, Kaha-hawai, but were ready with their counsel, Clarence Darrow, Dar-row, to appeal the jury's findings to the "last resource." An island jury of mixed nationalities nation-alities found Mrs. Grace Fortescue, society' woman; Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, U. S. N.; A. O. Jc.ies and E. J. Lord guilty of manslaughter in the killing of the Hawaiian, allegedly al-legedly a member of a group of five who brutally outraged Massie's young wife Thalia. Recommend Leniency The jury recommended leniency, but one tp 10 years' imprisonment at hard labor is the specified penalty pen-alty under the law. Darrow, fighting counsel for the defense, choked back his disappointment disap-pointment at trie surprise verdict and announced : "I will not give up the fight until un-til it is won or the last resource exhausted. I cannot say how disappointed dis-appointed I am. I thought there would be an end to the bitterness of fortune that has been piled on these poor people." Darrow and his clients had confidently con-fidently looked for either acquittal or a "hung jury" and were stunned when the jurors came in, after 49 hours, with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Ths island authorities had sought a second degree murder conviction charging Kahahawai was seized by the quartet, who tried to wring from him a confession that he was one of a group of five who brutally assaulted Mrs. Massie. Mrs. Massie Sobs Mrs. Massie, victim of an attack almost unparalleled for brutality, sobbed as the verdict was read, and clung desperately to the husband hus-band who had sworn as a witness that all went blank, before him when he heard from Kahahawai the words: "Yes, we done it." Sentence is due to be pronounced next Friday. At that time, Darrow will move for a new trial. If that is denied his clients, he will appeal first to the Hawaiian supreme court and then, if necessary, to the Ninth circuit court of appeals in San Francisco. The verdict was an obvious compromise. com-promise. The four had been indicted in-dicted on second degree murder charges, but Judge Charles S. Davis Da-vis instructed that the manslaughter manslaugh-ter verdict might be returned. |