The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-04
Unless He Leaves For Coast Next
Wednesday They viii Sur
render Him To Marshal
INDICTED GERMAN SAYS. ~
3rf He WILL SAIL ON MAUI
Bonding Company Tried To Back
Out Of Its Bargain But Huber
Declines To Take Action

Unless Heinrich Augustus Schroeder
Jerk Of II. Hackfeld q Company, VIII,
under federal indictment in connec
ION with the Hindu uprising plots
leaves for San Francisco on the Mau
,ailing next Wednesday, he will be sur
'endered by his bondsmen.
The bonding company that went on
Ills bond Of $4,000 for his safe ap
.,earance before the federal court in
'an Francisco wants TO back out of it,
bargain and quash the bond.
Efforts to that end were made yes
erday morning by 1.-THE local agents OF
he bonding company, following the re
'eipt from the main Office in Hartford
Connecticut, of aavlces disappearing
he issuance of the ten thousand dol
ar bond here. Local representative
# the company declined absolutely T.,
ak of the matter yesterday morning
nut the general facts in the case Leaked
5ut despite this effort TO keep thu
whole AFFAIR secret. -t..
1t appears that when the informa
ion that the bonding agency here hao
zone on Schroeder bail for the limi
o which the company goes in sucl
asses, reached the main office, il wa,
,ointed out that the company already
vas on the bond of Georg Rodiek
;harged in the same case with n similar
Iffense against the laws Of the United
states. II was also pointed out tina,
schroeder is an alien enemy, and thai
90 on his bond runs perilously close
% violation Of the trading with the
,nemy law which was passed by con
yress shortly after the outbreak OF
var with the Hun.
Whether or not this is the exact state
VI affairs Is not. definitely known here
If course, but It Is positively known
hat the local agents were notified that
the company would not approve Of
bonding Schroeder. 81
Steps were therefore taken at once /,
.ancel the bond. Frank Thompson.
cad of the law firm representing
schroeder in this matter, was notified
t once that the bonding company
wanted to call the whole matter of
and was advised that his client would
ave to lind another bondsuan.
Thompson then took the matter up
With United States Attorney Huber,
Who, however, declined to act. Huber e
position, as he afterwards explained to
The Advertiser, was that the bond had
eft here for the mainland and is now
IN the high seas; that even If this were
lot so, the bond calls for the surrende,
Il the body of Schroeder to the fed.
,ral officials in San Francisco, and that
he mere unwillingness of the company
20 carry out the terms Of its agreement
,an- not abrogate the bond.
: These things being SO, the federal
authorities here decided that they will
AXE no action, provided the German
eservist leaves the Territory in time
o report to the San Francisco court
August Is. In order to do this Schroe
Ter must leave on the Matson liner
,ailing August 8. This is the steam
or Maui, and il is understood that
schroeder has told the federal officials
Iere that his arrangements have been
made to take that vessel.
Asked for n statement in the case
yesterday, Mr.. Huber said:
"There is very little that ] can say
other than that attorneys for MI
Schroeder have notified me that the
bonding company wishes to withdraw
from its bond. This under the circum'
stances is, as l see it, an impossibility
and we do not propose to take any ac'
ion in the matter. The bond calls for
the surrender of the body of Schroeder
to the authorities In San Francisco, and
we are acting merely as agents fo'
the Coast court. Such being the case
md the bond having been signed, seal
I'd and started on its way TO San Fran
isco on the steamer that left here last
sStSGS1y Es fsliffh that tyf s GS n" .
S.hAs 20 matterrefl fectI can not see
how the bonding" company can with
draw under the circumstances. The
only way that bond can be cancelled
is by the surrender of the BONDED per
son as stipulated in the bond. To dc
this Schroeder must be turned over tc
the Federal authorities in San, Fran
cisco This Is to be done, and I under
stand that he will leave on the Maui