The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-05
HEALERS ROW
OVER THEIR
SALVE
Somma Says WalIach
Got Dope Recipe by
Fraud.

The campaign being actively carried
on throughout the town in favor of
allowing j. Lor Wallach a chance to
prove or disprove his claims is re-
suiting in a general. discussion of the
man, his alleged cures and his meth
eds. Wallach himself made a tour of
the town yesterday, accompanied by
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, We're visited and
the scars on the arms and legs of the
boy exhibited as proofs of what the
healer has done. At the Honolulu Iron
Works, during the noon hour, Wallach
made speech to the men. On his
way back TO town he stopped his hack
at the old Fishmarket and harangued
a crowd of about a 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
WaIlach by Charley Motley and bring
ing a letter from the Home>Rule lead
er IN which Wallach is called .'The
Savior of the Hawaiian People,
At the FishmarSet wa1lach is re-
ported to have said in the course of
his speech: ..It is for doing things
like this that I am prosecuted. Am I
always TO 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
do 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 wALLACH.
There is at least one man in town,
however, who refuses to give Wallach
any credit for being anything but
misrepresenter and man in whom
the truth dwelleth not. That is G. A.
Somma, who has a 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, TOO. is healer and a manufac-
furer of salve, but the little barber
certainly has no great regard for ''the
savior of the Hawaiian race. On
the contrary, he claims that walIach :
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
n Hawaii. that being the field selected
by Somma for his own sales. Wallach
got the prescription, paid fifteen dol
ars on account and since has neglect
ed either to go away or come up with
he balance. F
Somma states that at the time Wal +
aeh was negotiating with him for the
recipe Of his wonderful preparation he
persisted in asking the barber if he I
lad not some remedy of value for lep-
-osy. AT that time Wallaeh made no . .
-lains to Somma that he had any such
ure himself, a reticence which Wall
ach has outgrown wonderfully since. !,
KS for Wallach's alleged cures, Somma :
My laughs. even though he is more II
han half convinced that the leper IL
urer is trading on the virtues OF the
ecipe he defrauded him out of. Il
comma himself has submitted his y
eeipe to the Board of Health and IS -
cling it openly as a proprietary prep = y
ration. u
A few days ago wallach was asked
Y an Advertiser. reporter concerning
he truth of the report that he was
-orking with medicine prepared ac- "a
ording to recipe stolen from Somma. "a
t that interview he denied ever hav- ns
lg known Somma or of ever having ar
card of any stolen prescription Yes ed
,rday he admitted that he had known re
omma and had read in the Adyer- ed
ser some time ago the charges of a
lat person that he had stolen his in
medy. The account of what Somma ",
d said seemed to anuse Wallach DO
nsiderably. fo