The Massie Trial, for what was known as the Massie Affair, was a 1932 criminal trial that took place in Honolulu, Hawaii Territory. Socialite Grace Fortescue, along with several accomplices, was charged with the murder of the well-known local prizefighter Joseph Kahahawai.

In the early morning hours of September 13, 1931, Navy wife Thalia Fortescue Massie told the Honolulu police that she'd been hauled into a car, driven down Ala Moana Boulevard, beaten, dragged...

September 12: Thalia Massie claims she was assaulted by a group of Hawaiian young men in the late night hours of September 12. Before September 13 dawns, the young Navy wife will tell her...

Feb 13, 2021 · The racially charged 1931 Massie rape case involved five suspects. Two were Hawaiians of Japanese descent: Horace Ida, left, and David Takai. Later investigations would exonerate the...

Two dramatic criminal trials, one for rape and one for murder and both involving multiple defendants, forever changed the nature of Hawaiian race relations and politics. Filled with twists and turns and unanswered questions, the trials have all the elements of a good mystery.

The Massie affair was the last major case of Clarence Darrow’s long legal career and is the most unusual, perplexing and troubling. Unlike any of his other famous cases, here

Mar 8, 2010 · Thalia Massie, that young Navy wife, soon accused five young Honolulu men—Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese—of raping her that evening. Thalia’s mother, Grace Fortescue, flew to Hawaii for the trial....

Jan 5, 2024 · HONOLULU (CN) — One morning in September 1931, Thalia Massie, the white 20-year-old wife of a white Navy officer, showed up at the Honolulu police station, bruised and bloodied. There, she told officers a harrowing story of what she said had happened to …