Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-04
THEIR JUST DESERTS.
The Sentences Imposed Upon the
Convicted Rebels at Honolulu
Vary from $4,000 to $4,000 Fine and Five
10 35 Years Imprisonment

San Francisco, March 3.-The steamer
Australia, which arrived, Saturday,
brought IL cxiles from Honolulu. The
United Press correspondent in Honolulu,
writing under date of Feb 90, says;
The executive has not yet passed upon
the sentence of the cxQueen. 1t is quite
certain that the military commission
made it five years Imprisonment and $4,000
fine. 1t is well understood that the gov
eminent is debating the method and place
of imprisonment. A conclusion will soon
be arrived at.
On Feb. %, the Presidents aid, Mai
Potter, went to Oahu prison and read the
chief prisoners their sentences as follows;
C.T.Gulick, 80 years imprisonment and
so. 600 fine.
W. H. Richard, 80 years Imprisonment
and so, 600 fine
Maj. Seward, 35 years imprisonment
and SO, 600 fine.
Robert W. Wilcox, 30 years imprison-
ment and So, fine.
Il. b. Walker, 80 years Imprisonment
and $4,000 fine.
Carl Weidemann, 80 years imprison-
ment and S100 fine.
Henry Bertelmann 35 years imprison-
ment and SO, fine.
W. H. c. Grey, 20 years imprisonment
and SO, 600 fine.
Louis Marshal, 20 years Imprisonment
and $40, 600 fine.
John Lane, years Imprisonment and
$4,000 fine.
Gulick, Seward, Richard, Wilcox,
Newlein and Bertelmann had been SEN
fenced by the military commission to be
hanged. The sentences were modified by
the commander in chief as above
After the sentences had been pronounced
upon Newlein. in consideration of the fact
that the government had used him as a
witness before the military commission,
he was set at liberty. Bertemann was
also set free for the same reason.
The prisoners, after being sentenced,
Immediately donned their prison suits.
The sentence of Capt Davis has not
yet been announced On account of his
service as witness it will doubtless be
modified.
On the 18th United States Minister
Willis had long interview at the foreign
office with special reference to the case of
John f. Bowler, American citizen, who
is sentenced to five years imprisonment
permitted to leave the country in place
Vi imprisonment tcioiilS tHc cast VI oobh
White, an Englishman, who received that
favor), although proved to have cast the
bombshell found at Washington place.
Mr.. Hatch replied that White pleaded
ignorance of the use of the shells, having
been told that they were intended for
fence ornaments; also that Bowler was
proved to have undertaken the seizure of
the telephone office, thereby cutting off
the governments communication with its
defenders
At his request Mr.. Willis has been fur
nished with full stenoaraphic report of
the evidence in Bowler's case. as well as
in those of Gulick and Seward
Mr.. Willis also urged upon Mr.. Hatch
the propriety of exempting Bowler from
the humiliation of wearing the convict
uniform on the ground that he is politi
cal prisoner He represented to Mr.. Hatch
the Importance of making that distinction
in the cases of the insurgents generally.
The government is not inclined to recog
is now wearing the convict dress has been
prominent for many years as political
wire puller.
So far as can be learned the Honolulu
pubic are well satisfied with the sentences
as the wisest to be imposed under all cir
cumstances.
Correspondence from Honolulu states
that Mrs. Dole is interceding strongly for
the ex- Queen, and President Dole is re-
ported to be wavering between granting
her full pardon or letting the sentence