The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-10-08
HEALERS ROW
OVER THEIR
SA[VE
From Saturdays Advertiser.

The campaign being actively carried
on throughout the town in favor of
allowing ]. Lor Wallach a chance to
prove or disprove his claims is re-
sulting in a general discussion of the
man, his alleged cures and his meth
ods. Wallach himself made a tour of
the town yesterday, accompanied by
a boy whom he says he has cured Of
scrofulous sores, exhibiting his patient
to all who cared TO stop, look and
listen.
Many places in the city, including
the Advertiser office, were visited and
the scars on the arms and legs of the
hoy exhibited as proofs of what the
healer has done. At the Honolulu Iron
Works, during the noon hour, Wallach
made a speech to the men. On his
way back to town he stopped his hack
at the old Fishmarket and harangued
a crowd of about hundred and fifty
natives, again exhibiting the healed
scars on the boy. The boy in ques-
ton is one who was sent here, accord
ing to Wallach's story, from one of
the other islands, having been sent to
Wallach by Charley Motley and bring
ing a letter from the Home Rule lead
er in which Wallach is called 1.-THE
Savior of the Hawaiian People
At the Fishmarket Wallach is re-
ported to have said in the course of
his s0eech: 1T is for doing things
Ike this that I am prosecuted. Am
always 20 be prosecuted? That is the
question that is up to you people"
From the Fishmarket Wallach drove
to the police station and again exhib-
ited his work, telling all those who
gathered around him what he had
done and what he was prepared to
%. After this he turned to Deputy
Sheriff jarrett and asked that a charge
be placed against him if the curing
of the boy had been a crime. The
Deputy Sheriff, however, declined to
accept the invitation.
ANOTHER SIDE TO WALLACE.
There is at least one man in town,
however, who refuses to give Wallach
any credit for being anything but a
misrepresenter and a man in whom
the truth dwelleth not. That is G. A.
Somma, who has g. little barber shop
on King street, a few doors Eva of
Nuuanu avenue. 1t may be profes
sional jealousy on Somma's part, for
he. 10, is a healer and a manufac-
turer of salve, but the little barber
certainly has no great regard for the
savior of the Hawaiian race. On
the contrary, he claims that Wallach
is a swindler and a smooth one and
the man who stole his recipe.
According to Somma, Wallach call (
ed upon him some ten months ago and, |
under the understanding that he was
leaving within a month for India, bar
gained for his recipe, agreeing to pay .
$500 for it. He agreed never to use it
in Hawaii. that being the field selected |
by Somma for his own sales. Wallach /
got the prescription, paid fifteen dol
lars on account and since has neglect
ed either to go away or come up with |
the balance.
Somma states that at the time Wal
ZACH was negotiating with him for the
recipe OF his wonderful preparation he
persisted in asking the barber if he
had not some remedy of value for lep-
rosy. At that time Wallach made no
claims to Somma that he had any such
cure himself, a reticence which Wal>
ZACH has outgrown wonderfully since.
AS for Wallach's alleged cures, Somma
only laughs, even though he is more
than half convinced that the leper
curer is trading on the virtues of the
recipe he defrauded him out of.
Somma himself has submitted his
recipe TO the Board of Health and is
selling it openly as a proprietary prep
aration.
A few days ago Wallach was asked
by an Advertiser reporter concerning
the truth of the report that he was
working with medicine prepared &C
cording to a recipe stolen from Somma
At that interview he denied ever hav-
ing known SOmma or of ever having
heard of any stolen prescription. Yes
terday he admitted that he had known
Somma and had read in the Adver-
tiser some time ago the charges of
that person that he had stolen his
remedy. The account of what Somma
had said seemed to amuse Wallach
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