The second of the so-called "Massie Affair" trials also closes out the courtroom career of America's greatest defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. No trials ever had a more significant effect on a state's history than those that shocked and shook …
Oct 07, 2007 · A grand jury indicted the four and seventy five year old Clarence Darrow came out of retirement to assume the defense. He was promised a fee of $30,000, a very substantial amount in those days. He and his defense attorney assistant, George Leisure arrived by ship on March 24 th 1932. They were met by crowds of people and by reporters and others at the …
Hiring defense lawyer Clarence Darrow, Fortescue's case was known as the Massie Affair, a focus of nationwide newspaper coverage. Massie's sentence of ten years in prison was whittled down to one hour in the governor's chambers at ʻIolani Palace.
The second of the so-called "Massie Affair" trials also closes out the courtroom career of America's greatest defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. No trials ever had a more significant effect on a state's history than those that shocked and shook …
A cable from Tom Massie to the mainland brought Thalia Massie's mother, Grace (Mrs. Granville) Fortescue, a domineering woman accustomed to issuing orders from her high position in the social register. She immediately took charge.
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Massie's sentence of ten years in prison was whittled down to one hour in the governor's chambers at ʻ Iolani Palace. The affair was the subject of a 2005 episode of the PBS series The American Experience, which included archival footage of Judd.
Samoa and retirement. On 4 March 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Judd Governor of American Samoa on a temporary basis. He served only five months. Judd died on October 4, 1968, in Honolulu and was interred in the city's Oahu Cemetery in Nuʻuanu Valley.
Lawrence M. Judd. Lawrence McCully Judd (March 20, 1887 – October 4, 1968) was a politician of the Territory of Hawaii, serving as the seventh Territorial Governor. He was devoted to the Hansen's disease -afflicted residents of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokaʻi .
Judd became Kalaupapa's resident superintendent in 1947. Judd' s service running Kalaupapa was a subject in the 2003 historical novel and national bestseller called Moloka'i by Alan Brennert as well as the historical account, The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman.
Lawrence McCully Judd (March 20, 1887 – October 4, 1968) was a politician of the Territory of Hawaii, serving as the seventh Territorial Governor. He was devoted to the Hansen's disease -afflicted residents of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokaʻi .
Judd married his second wife, Eva Marie Lillibridge (1913–2002) in 1938. Judd attended the Punahou School, The Hotchkiss School, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of its fraternity chapter of Phi Kappa Psi .
A source of controversy during his tenure, Judd commuted the sentence of Grace Hubbard Fortescue, socialite and niece of Alexander Graham Bell, convicted in the territorial courts of manslaughter in the death of a local man, Joseph Kahahawai.
First he suggested that Thomas Massie had shot Kahahawai in a fit of temporary insanity, caused by overexcited glands and unfortunate secretions in the blood.
In the wake of the Massie mistrial, the Admiral's chief concern was the pride and prestige of the U.S. Navy. When a group of sailors grabbed Horace Ida and tried to force a confession by whipping him with belt buckles, Stirling was philosophical.
Fortescue has done to prevent anybody from seeing the body in the backseat is that she's pulled down the shades in the car, which becomes a key to there's something wrong with that car. One of the policemen out on his motorcycle has a description of the car, sees that car and he gives chase.
And that higher law was what Darrow called the unwritten law, the right of a man to kill somebody who has offended his wife in an egregious way.
His first reaction, as he wrote himself, was that we should string them up, string them up on trees. The first newspaper stories do not name Thalia. But she is characterized in the first breaking stories in the Advertiser and the Star Bulletin almost word for word as a white woman of culture and refinement.
DAVID STANNARD: Admiral Stirling filed a report that said there had been 40 rapes in Honolulu in the past year. There had not been 40 rapes in Honolulu. But that became the chant. That became the number that was used in newspapers and in radio broadcasts, news broadcast and so on, all over the country.
Film Description. In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders. What unfolded in the following days and weeks was a racially-charged murder case that would make headlines across the nation, enrage Hawai'i's native population, ...