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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Thalia Massie and the Ala Moana Boys
Chapter One: The Woman in Green “Are you white people?”
Chapter Two: The Ala Moana Boys “Something terrible has happened.”
Chapter Three: The Accusation “A woman was assaulted by a man.”
Chapter Four: The Physical Examination “Clean as a new pin.”
Chapter Five: Thalia’s Statement “Now look at your beautiful work.”
Chapter Six: Rounding Up the Boys “It was a car like that.”
Chapter Seven: The Identification “Our first inclination is to seize the brutes and string them up on trees.”
Chapter Eight: The Alibi “Do you know this is Bennie?”
Chapter Nine: The Lawyers “The district attorney was too deaf to conduct a trial.”
Part Two: Territory of Hawaii V. Ben Ahakuelo, Et Al
Chapter Ten: Thalia for the Prosecution “I started to pray and that made him angry and he hit me very hard.”
Chapter Eleven: The Prosecution Continues “I was instructed to keep that under cover.”
Chapter Twelve: The Prosecution Rests “… the prosecution has utterly failed to prove its case.”
Chapter Thirteen: The Timeline “A white man was following her.”
Chapter Fourteen: Tying Up Loose Ends for the Defense “She said, ‘I am positive they were Hawaiians because of the way they spoke.’”
Chapter Fifteen: The Defendants Speak “Were you afraid she was going to choke you to death?”
Chapter Sixteen: Rebuttal “… two men held this arm and she tried to get away from these men.”
Chapter Seventeen: Sending the Case to the Jury “The most damnable thing in the history of the Territory …”
Part Three: A Death in the Islands
Chapter Eighteen: Somewhere Over the Pali “The Shame of Honolulu”
Chapter Nineteen: The Abduction “Life is a mysterious and exciting affair.”
Chapter Twenty: Disposing of the Body “I then noticed a human leg sticking out of the white bundle.”
Chapter Twenty-one: A Funeral in the Islands “Poor Kahahawai, these haoles murdered you in cold blood.”
Part Four: Territory of Hawaii V. Grace Fortescue, Et Al
Chapter Twenty-two: Turning State’s Evidence “I never should have pulled that shade down.”
Chapter Twenty-three: Judge Cristy and the Grand Jury “God has not left this world for an instant.”
Chapter Twenty-four: The Heavyweights “[H]e has a damn fine jury personality—when he’s sober.”
Chapter Twenty-five: The Finger of Doom “Is Joseph alive?”
Chapter Twenty-six: Tommie’s Story “Don’t let him get me!”
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Man Who Fired the Gun “We can trace those impulses back to the cradle.”
Chapter Twenty-eight: Delirium with Ambulatory Automatism “What right does he have to say that I don’t love you?”
Chapter Twenty-nine: Closing Arguments “Three able men and a cold calculating woman …”
Chapter Thirty: Custody of the High Sheriff “We, the jury, in the above entitled cause find the defendant …”
Part Five: Epilogue
Chapter Thirty-one: The Pinkerton Report “It has been shown that the five accused did not have the opportunity to commit the kidnapping and rape described by Mrs. Massie.”
Chapter Thirty-two: What Really Happened? “Blasted careers, ruined lives, tragedy, and death.”
Source Notes
Bibliography
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