The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-05-08
VICTIMS OF
MISSIONARIES
so IT Is ALLEGED MAJOR McCLEL.
Ian SAYS OF SOLDIERS WAL
TON, BALES AND CARLTON.

TON. BALES AND CARLTON.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29.-The
Chronicle this morning publishes the
following:
1t is a far cry from the strapless rank
of the enlisted man to the fortified Of
fee of the Secretary of War of the
United States, and yet young Charles
Carlton, private in Company 81, Coast
Artillery, stationed at Honolulu, was
able to project across the breach an in
fluence which opened jail doors to him
and two of his comrades after ,.Ie Chief
Justice of the Hawaiian islands had
preferred charges against them and the
Honolulu Grand jury had indicted them
for burglary. The whole affair has the
appearance of being the most remark
able recent instance on record of what
a pull can do in the Army, ana most
people have believed that in the
Army, at least, things are wont to
go on their merits.
The news given to the Chronicle
yesterday that Sergeant Albert Bales
and Private Thomas Walton of Com
pany &C. Coast Artillery and Private
Charles Carlton of Company 81, Coast
Artillery, who have been awaiting
trial a Honolulu, were at the Pre-
sidio in this city aroused much inter-
est among civilians who had followed
their cases, and more among officers
and soldiers, to whom the secret had
not been whispered. When the story
became generally known at the RE
sidio it created much discussion, and
at once the report was started around
the big camp, from some source, that
the three men had merely been trans
mil nd
lodged in the guardhouse pending the
session of the court which is to try
them. But the mems names We're
not on the roster at the guardhouse;
neither could any information as to
their presence be obtained at the office
of the sergeant-major, who keeps the
rolls. 1t was only after a search that
the three were found slowed away in
different barracks, where the only or
der concerning each was that he was
to be given quarters and served his
rations until assigned 10 a battery.
All seemed to regard the Honolulu in
cident as practically closed, though
Carlton was anxious to return there at-
ter a while and have his name cleared.
Bales and Walton could not explain the
strange order which transported them
from an island prison to freedom in san
Francisco. They only knew that there
was a good fairy in 1t somewhere.
Carlton. who undoubtedly was the one
able to bring the good fairy in to save
them and himself would discuss that
phase of the case not at all ana otheI
phases only with reluctance. 1t is be
lieved that Carlton is not his real name
that he was formerly a student in Har-
ward and that he has wealthy and IN
huential relatives in an Eastern state
who were able to reach the ear of Sec
rotary of War Root and move him to
whisk all three of the young fellows
out of the clutch of the law.
Colonel Andrews of the Adjutant-
Generals office practically refused to
discuss the matter. There was no use
in making a mountain of molehlll
he said. But it was learned from MN
that the three soidieres left Honolulu
upon the order of the Secretary OF war;
not on a government transport, out
Carlton on the Sierra and Bales ana
Walton on the China week later ana
that he knew nothing of their coming
until they reported to him bearing the
order that they be assigned TO new
companies to remain at the Preslolo,
Colonel Andrews said that the men did
not come Under an escort and were not
now in the guardhouse nor under ar
rest. He was too busy to look up their
first names and would have nothing
further to say
Bales and Walton said they have an
attorney at Honolulu who advised them
not to talk Their case is still in ms
hands. Their story is to the effect that
they, with Carlton, had a day off on
January IS, 1903, and spent it on Mount
Tantalus, four miles out of Honolulu.
They came across the country nome OF
Chief Justice Frear and thought 1t the
property of a native. They TOOK COOK
ing utensils from the kitchen ana
cooked a meal in the open air, washed
the dishes and returned them. Justice
Frear had been robbed on a previous
occasion and he watched and had the
young men arrested as they went down
the mountain. They denied that they
were carrying away anything which did
not belong to them They could not
raise their bail and remained in jail.
The Grand jury indicted all three for
burglary in the second degree. They
communicated with their people, Bales
at Indianapolis, Ind, and Walton's at
Great Falls, Mont Carlton used the
cable vigorously in reaching his own
people. On April 14th Bales and wal
ton We're surprised when Major Nc
Clellan informed them that they were
TO leave on ln8l Gay lOI san II dA,ioN'
on the China and report at the Pre-
sidio for new assignment. They could
not say how it had all come about and
were glad to do as they were told as the
Honolulu Jail has no charms, They de-
MED that they gave a promise to re-
turn for trial early in May.
Charles Carlton Is a refined, educated
young man, who has a very different
demeanor from that of the ordinary en-
listed man. He would not deny that he
and the others were bringing something
down the mountain with them, but re-
fused to say what it was.
He admitted that he had been
able to bring influence to bear upon
Secretary of War Root which had
had it's effect. He was now applied to
the same source for a discharge from
service by favor, and he expects to get
1 it very soon. He did not remain in jail