The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-30

yonth made a willing witness and what
he said obviously had full weight with
the twelve jurors.
Advanced On Allen
y Coming down to the night of the
tragedy he said he was at work in the
stand and at the same time was study.
ing his lessons 49,, :.
He had heard Of few words of the
controversy between Captain Allen and
Walker just before the shooting, but
he did not know what Il was tbsy WEIR
talking about. II was the boy, who
OF oil the witnesses had the cloasst
view of the. shooting, who said that
when his attention was distracted from,
his school book by the controversy and
when he looked out of the stand rust
before the first shot was fired Captain
Allen was fetreating and Walker was
advancing toward him. The men were
about four or five feet apart, tine boy
said first. and later said they were
about three feet apart. Later uues-
TONED shout this discrepancy he said
both Of the men were moving and that
after the first shot he saw Walker
stagger. After the second shot, he said,
Walker moved to the end of the bridge,
about forty feet from the stand and
sank to the ground.
s After the shooting the boy said Cap.
tain Allen himself had given the In
truetions to call the police. In ODE
dienee, to this the boy said he had
blown the police whistle.
why He Had Gun
SHowC Captain Allen happened TO have
a loaded 3S-caliber revolver in his
pocket was also explained by the boy
and by other later witnesses. II de.
veloped In the course of the testimony
that some time before the shooting an
attack had been made on a daughter
OF Theodore Richards, treasurer Of the
Hawaiian Board Of Missions, at the
Richards home when the miscreant had
been frightened away. After this han
pehing Captain Allen had. taken over
the duty Of guarding the Richards
home. The boy said he was about to
leave to take up this duty, Of guarding
the home and had the loaded revolver
with him, just before the shooting.
Corp. J. A. Anger Of Company C.,
Second Infantry, who was in AaIa Park
at the time of the shooting, with a
nHmber Of other soldiers. was the next
Witness He went to Walkers assist
ance and his testimony followed close
~ that Of B. A, Watson. The two had
undertaken 10 give aid to the wounded
man and had heard his statements Civ
en- in the testimony of Walker. SeTgt.
G. B. Basic, another OF the soldiers
who had run to the scene of the shoot
ing, told of having received the re-
yolver from Captain Aliens hands
Allen told him he had shot German,
Basic testified. In connection with this
testimony the weapon, q nickelled 38-
eaiiber revolver with two exploded car
tridges and three unexploded, was pre-.
sented in evidence. With the testi
mony of this witness the prosec ution
closed its case.
Witness For Defense
Father Valentih was the first witness
called Tor the defense. While his first
replies to questions seemed Of a nature
harmful to the defendant, additional
statements probably gave them a par
tieular value in his favor. Father
Valentin said he had known Allen for
years and said he had first met Allen
in prison. Captain Allen, the priest
said, had been imprisoned number of
time in years past for drunk nness.
To this testimony the witness added,
however, that all of Ave wears ago
Captain Allen had wholly reformed and
had then engaged in rescue work In the
very prison where he himself had been
helth He had always bsen intensely patri,
otic and after his reformation he be.
came an active church worker and ga
very straight man., the witness said.
Another clergyman, Rev., AkaikO
Akana, was the next witness called.
He said he knew of rescue work in the
prisons Captain Allen had performed
and this witness also told Of the de-
activity in forwarding the
work of the Young Peoples League.
Testimony of the same kind setting
forth Captain Alien % good character
was given by the next witness, Frank
Scudder, a missionary. H..
Theodore Richards, whose house Cap
tain Allen was to have kuarded the
night Of the shooting, then told of his
long acquaintance with Captain Allen.
They had been partners in an enter
prise, the witness said, referring to the
work Of reforming clown and o0ts,b
MAT Capitals Allen had undertaken. At
one time, the witness said, CAPTAIN
Allen had between fifty and sixty men
on his books, giving aid to them.
character Witness
William A. Bowen, a prominent flo.
lre IN commercial and religious cir
'les, gave emphatic testimony In favor
Of the defendant. He said he had
known Captain Allen number of
years and asserted he had been an &C.
tive worker and a "fofce for good in
he name of Jesus Christi.
Aionzo Gartley, an Annapolis man,
who had seen service on a number of
United States wafships over q period
Of years, when called said he had
tnown Captain Allen several years and
recalled that Captain Allen had served |
lnder him on the Pensacola when he -,
was an officer on that vessel. CAPTAIN !
Allen, he said, had been active here in |
the naval reserves.
John Guild, of Alexander & Baldwin.
IN active worker for the Boy Scouts |
Harry Hayward, executive officer Of
he Boy Scouts Organization, and W.
Hutton, Liquor inspector and scout.
master of two troops Of Boy Scouts,
Ill testified in glowing terms of the
latriotic work Captain Allen had done |
or the Boy Scouts.