The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-16
WALLACE ROASTED;
SOMMA FREED
Result OF Libel Trial Is Worse
for Complainant Than
Defendant.

he evidence of the defense in this
case and the testimony of the plaintiff
Wallach, himself, stating that he had
$500 with him and that he had enter
ed into bargain with Somma. in
which he agreed to pay the purchase
price of $3.50, certainly shows that
Wallaeh is swindler and a smooth
one, and if WalIach had this money
and took Somma's recipes and did not
+ pay for them. then in the Judgment
OF this court it is a theft. or else this
court does not know what theft isl
In these scathing words Judge An
drade declared the published interview
in the Advertiser of October ). in
which G. A. Somma declared walIach
swindler and a liar. TO be no libel.
but the truth, and Somma himself de-
clared not guilty of criminal libel. In
this case j. Lor Wallach caused the
arrest of Somma on a criminal libel
charge for having given the history -
the dealings between the two To the
Advertiser for publication In his evil
dence Wallach declared the interview
and the statements in it false and w.
ing, while Somma testified thar the
Advertiser had reported him correctly
and produced witnesses to show that
what he had stated had been the
truth, these statements being to the
effect that Wallach had Offered to buy
his sa4ye recipes on the understanding
that he, Wallach, was to leave imme- |
diately for India and would not enter |
into competition with Somma. WAL |
ZACH obtained the recipes, paid only a |
trifie OF what had been agreed upon |
and did not leave the country as he /
had promised.
Attorney Peters, who conducted the
defense, tied Wallach up in a hard /
knot in the matter of biography. the
telling a materially diff
ferent tale of his life's history than
he had told before the Court of Nat
uralization when taking out his cit
liens papers. He started the fight
with Peters himself, haunting the at
torney with the fact that he was a
qualified voter in spite Of the prosecu-
tons against him by Peters. This
remark of Wallach's was made just as
he stepped on the witness stand and
in his receiving a calling
down from the attorney and from the
judge.
The finding of Somma not guilty was
a popular verdict, some little applause
out in the courtroom when
Judge Andrade announced his decision
and delivered his verbal castigation to
Wanach.
The verdict leaves Wallach quite I'M
however, and he was his
smiling, insouciant self on the streets
When asked what effect
he finding in the Sonln1a trial would
nave on the actions for criminal libel
he had been contemplating against !.
President Pinkham and Prince Cupid, !
lie announced that he had concluded {
o lay no more charges. :
You see how things are going" he
aid. AT the trial there today they
ried to make a perjurer out of me,
nd I guess they did, too"
STILL A DEMAND FOR HIM. G
The demand from the Hawaiians t
hat Wallach be given his trial keeps q
p, however in spite of everything q
hat can be produced and proven '
gainst him. The politicians have not @
iyen up any of their attempts to Y
rofit by his influence and the mass t
leeting among the Hawaiians, called s
Or Saturday night in Aala Park. t
to be one of the biggest a
hings of the kind ever held in the Ii
ity. Leading Hawaiians of the three L
arties will be present and speak and L
ne tenor of all the speeches will be il
nat WaIlach should have the right to d
0 ahead with his attempts to cure. e
PETITION FROM KALAUPAPA. r,
Charley Motley, who is now described =
s ''Wauach's business manager" gave
at yesterday the substance OF a let
n he had received from Kalaupapa,
, the effect that President Pinkham =
ould be received at the settlement by
most the entire population there and
: presented with petition asking .
lat WaIlaeh be allowed to come to
olokai to treat them. This petition :.
said to bear over five hundred sig
ltures.
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