The Portland daily press., 1895-02-07
STORY OF REBELLION.
Defeated Hawaiian COnspiratOrs on
Trial for Treason.
1T is ALLEGED SPRECKLES FUR
NISHED MONEY FOR ARMS.

1 10 lAelT hDoHIcuSG VI tllC
Plot for Personal safety-The Queen
Had Her Cabinet All Picked Outflow
| the Rifles Were Struggled Ashore.
| San Francisco, February 6.-Liliuo-
kalani has abdicated in favor of the Re-
public. This is by far the most import
ant outcome of the late rebellion.
| The document was drawn up by AS.
| Hartweli, at the request of the ex-Queen,
and was presented on the Goth of Janua-
~ last, to President Dole The docu-
ment, according to the wording, was
executed freely and voluntarily.
| On the 18th, John S. Walker, Major
Seward and CT. Galick were arrested
for completely in the purchase and land
| ing of arms for rebels. Seward was one
Of the Queens commissioners to Wash
| ington last summer. Galick, who is
deeply implicated was the minister of
| the interior with Gibson. These arrests
were made in consequence of disclosures
| by Nowlein, Wilcox and the other spris-
oners, who have been vieing with one
! another in relations.
On the morning of the 10th, the ex-
| Queen was arrested at her residence by
| brown and Parker, and confined in ner
former royal bedroom in the ralace.
Mrs. Chares Clark continued to attend
| her. That afternoon the volunteer troops
and sharpshooters Wvre all called in and
| dismissed. None OF them were killed
| or severely wounded.
Charles Clark, chief attendant of the
ex-Queen, gave damaging information
| L Ia a. : hna rane,
dence of 40 rifles, IL pistols, five swords,
SO full belts, 1000 cartridges and 81
bombs of different patterns. White and
RItton were arrested tor constructing a
mum Der OF bomb bs which were found.
Tney were employed by Bertolmann,
they claim, to make 90, as ornaments
for fence posts.
President Dole thanks VIC. Irwin tor
assuming the cost of 25 soldiers, during
the rebellion. and also H. May for $1,000,
given for war uses. A II of the import
ant rebels were identified. and most of
their white accomplices and insIigators
are now arrested. sUp to January 10Th
80 persons had been taken prisoners by
the government on account of the rebel
lion. OF the rebels taken from the field,
four are foreigners and 1875 are natives.
OF the accomplices, SO are foreigners and
Ill are natives.
HE IRlAl1.
The military commission opened court
January 18th, and 8 prisoners appeared
before it,: Messrs. Galick, Seward, ]. b.
Wilker, Bowler. Rickard, Bertelmann,-
Wilcox, Nowlein, the two Lanes Grey
Weidemann and Marshall.
The prisoners were allowed time to
confer with their counsel and the court
adjourned. Tine court opened again JAM
uary 18th with the last eight prisoners
named above charged with treason and
levying war on the republic appearing
before it. Wilcox and Nowlein pleaded
guilty. The testimony was completed
for the prosecution January 10th. Will
cox, James lane Grey, Weidmann and
Marshall testified for the defense mainly
proving the extremely weak and incapa-
BILE conduct of the whole affair. Wied-
mann pleaded for a light sentence, urg-
ing banishmenU. The testimony devel-
oped large aamount of precise informa-
| t!on about the actual proceedings of the
rebels in the field, and frcm other
sources it was asoertained that only 2SS
rifles were landed at Waialao, and the
whole NUN Der of natives gathered was
21O These men were gathering all day
Sunday, January 9Th. They were en-
| ployed in cleaning the rifles of the sand
| in which they had been buried and get
| ting drunk on gin. Nowlein was in chief
command. Bill Wilcox took immediate
action on shore.
THE UPRISING.
| Wilcox testified that he kept aloof
from the business until week before
the outbreak, and finally was persuaded
that his reputation with the natives
made it dishonorable not to take part.
Finding at nightfall that the police
were molesting BerteImann's place, and
| the natives from town were thereby de-
| TERED from joining them. Wilcox sent
squad of ten armed men with pistols
with orders to surround and capture
| the policemen. These were reinforced
| by two other squads with rifles,
amounting to forty in all. Holi was
shot down at the first collision, about
o'clock, when Deputy Marshal Brown
went back to town for further orders.
On Browns return with a few more men,
the second exchange of Shots took place,
at which time Garter was killed. The
inuuiry about his death was searching,
and the prosecut tion took pains to exon
crate James Lane from the guilt of
shootings him, ssfxing it upon William
Poole. 1t was showni that wilcox re-
mained in command on Diamond Head,
and not at Palolo during the battle He
from the park. Nowlein commanded at
Palolo, aided by Weld mann, Grey, and
Marshall. Nowlein mad distributed
bombs to some of his officers, and few
of these were flung by hand Wilcox,
with forty men, retreated into the
mountains and walked across Manoa
Wednesday, and his force dispersed that
night in the mountains, he himself
crossing to Nunann. Nowlein and his
three younger companions got mp on
PaIoIo ridge, and soon after to Wollli1,
where they lay con cealed for week,
being fed by the natives. The whole at
tempt proved hasco through
the incapacity OF the leaders, the lack
of discipline in the men, and the general
lack of courage and persistence.
On the 21st the military commission
began the trial of the four leading men,
who were charged with procuring the
importation of arms and ammunition,
C. +. Galick, Rickard, T.. b. Walker and
Major Seward. Walker alone pleaded
guilty, Galick pleading not guilty, and
the majority OF the witnesses and prls-
oners who had been engaged in landing
the arms. Their stories proved that on
the night CT December 20th, George
Tow wns.nd, three-fourths white. WIFI
four natives, who had been over week
waehing from the .islet called Manaua,