Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-22
Extradtioa May Be Beat If
Citizenship Papers Be
~ Granted =

tTleu III vain 10 interest before, en-
gagged a lawyer who is a successful
politician. and after only II days my
wife WIS discharged from the state
hospital by its superintendent and
without any order from the court.
Then they went before a judge, who
| gave ny wife the custody Of Olga and
ordered RE TO pay 6S yen per month
&c support my daughter only, and or.
dered that | must visit Olga at rea-
Sonable times"
For nearly a year under this ar
rangement. did all that the court
ordered, and during this time my wife
frequently violated both the spirit and
the letter of the courts order. humil-
iating and provoking me as a father.
Once she tried. by a jest, to have me
falsely arrested on charge of max
ing disturbance when | came to
her door and requested to see my
daughter, but two witnesses, who hap
Pened to be near and saw all cleared
me before the police officer. Then
appealed to the court for relief, but
the only change that was made was
ITO specify some hours during which
| might see my daughter, but they
were useless to me on account Of my
business hours. Olga was never al
lowed by her mothers will to stay
one night. during a whole year. at
| my house, but was allowed to stay
alone over night at the house of per-
sons not of the mothers family nor
OF mine. AS the father i could no
longer endure this, and in February
last, to end the misery, l took my
daughter one day when | had hor fer
few hours, and fled for refuge to
Japan, whose family laws: and Gus.
toms I had read about.
Denies Perjury Charge
MY wife's attorney, David l.
Walsh, has been elected lieutenant
governor of the state of Massachu.
sets, and is therefore able to pursue
me officially and politically, to advance
the interests of his law firm. Finding
that they cannot have me extradited
from Japan for taking away my own
child, they have alleged perjury
against me, because this crime is !,
named in the treaty between Japan
and the United States. No alterations
OF perjury or any other crime was
ever made against me while in Amer
Tea or prior to the present proceedings
for extraditfon. It is made now sim
ply for the purpose of getting me back
to America and taking Olga away from
me. / have never in my life. sworn
to any false statement and have made
sworn statements in no other matter
or connection than my family affairs.
In Japan 1 have made a good home
for my daughter, with a suitable JAP
anese widow and mother Of family,
who has lived many years in Amer
lea, as our housekeeper here, together
with competent and good maid ser
want for my daughter have had my
daughter in the Japanese kindergar.
ten OF Mrs. Ito in Hikawa-eho, Akasa-
ka, until September 80, and since then
nave had her In the Tokyo Grammar
School for foreign children In }Tsukiji.
before going to Jail succeeded in
placing her in the very kind care of
Baron N. Kanda, where she now is, |
although she had been removed. in
kindness from my house in my alb
sence by the American embassy with
out previous notice to me.
Occupying Good Position
My daughter is in perfect health,
is happy and contented is being well
brought up and educated, and she will !
tell any one who may ask her that
she prefers to remain in japan with |
her father. I am occupying honorable |
positions IN Japan, as teacher at the |
hlgher Commercial School and. with |
the Japanese Advertiser, newspaper
Finally, there is a religious eie-
ment In the present controversy be-
tween my wife and myself, concerning |
our daughter. My wife's family and |
attorney. the lieutenant governor of
M Massachusetts, are Jesuits, Roman |
Catholics, while I am a Unitarian, the |
son of an Irish Protestant father, an |
Orangeman and anti-Romanist of the
north of Ireland; where the hostility |
between Catholics and non-Catholicst
can plainly be seen at the present mo-
ment in the controversy over home
rule l have never at any time agreed
that any children of my wife and my
self should be trained as Catholics,
and | cannot consent to my daughter
Olga being brought up in a faith so
much opposed to my own. The Ro-
man Catholics are very strong politi-
cally in Massachusetts, as they are in
and their Cardinal O'Conn-
nell of Boston is the intimate person
al friend of the acknowledgement of
David l. Walsh, who
has been my wife's attorney in the
case concerning my daughter They
want my child and | want her. To1
which will the Japanese give her?
am not a native of the United States
but of st. Stephens, New Brunswick,
Canada; and as l cannot return to my
native allegiance as British subject
without first living for five years in
the British empire; and as I cannot
love and serve a country like Ameri-
ca. which takes away the parental
rights Of father while at the same
time enforcing his esponsibilties;
and, finally, as like the Japnese peo-
pie and empire and institutions, | am
ready to become a Japanese subject,
and l pray Japan to receive and re-
tain and protect me. AS an honorable