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Grace Fortescue

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28: 218:, their estate in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Newspaper reports indicate that Grace could be classified a prankster: as a youth, she and her friends stole a trolley car for a joy ride through the streets of Washington and, on another occasion, she blocked traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue by joining hands with friends and roller-skating down the avenue. 295:, one of the defendants in the alleged rape of her daughter Thalia in Hawaii in 1931. Also charged and convicted with Fortescue were two sailors, Edward J. Lord and Deacon Jones, and Fortescue's son-in-law, Thomas Massie, who participated in the abduction and murder of Kahahawai. 266:
Outwardly, the Fortescues appeared to be wealthy country gentry. In reality, financial affairs became a primary concern for them after Granville's final retirement from the army. With the exception of a short stint as a fiction editor for
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defended Fortescue, Jones, Massie, and Lord. He subsequently obtained a commutation of their sentence (ten years' imprisonment for manslaughter) to a one-hour confinement in the executive chambers of Territorial Governor
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magazine in 1930, he did not have steady employment, preferring to wait for the fortune his wife would inherit at the death of her parents.
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In 1966, while being interviewed by author Peter Van Slingerland, Albert O. Jones admitted that he was the one who shot Joseph Kahahawai.
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who orchestrated the kidnapping, beating, and murder of a man who was wrongly accused of raping her daughter. After being convicted of
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at a sensational trial, her ten-year sentence was commuted to a single hour by Hawaii's Territorial Governor
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Stannard, David. "The Massie case: Injustice and courage" The Honolulu Advertiser, October 14, 2001
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Judith A. Spinzia; Raymond E. Spinzia (May 8, 2006). "Fortescue, Granville Roland (1875-1952)".
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In 1932, Grace Fortescue was charged with murder and convicted by a jury of
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Long Island's Prominent Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes
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Kenyon Fortescue (1914–1990), better known as actress
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Index


Washington D.C.
Palm Beach, Florida
Granville Roland Fortescue
Thalia Fortescue Massie
Helene Whitney
Charles J. Bell
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
New York City
socialite
manslaughter
Lawrence Judd
Washington, D.C.
Charles John Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Gardiner Hubbard
Bell Telephone Company
Twin Oaks
Granville "Rolly" Fortescue
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Thalia Fortescue Massie
Helene Whitney
Liberty
Massie Trial
manslaughter
Joseph Kahahawai
Clarence Darrow
Lawrence M. Judd

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