The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-19
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FOR AALA KILLING
Local Officers Have Failed To
Garry Out Their Sworn Duty,
Vigilance Corps Is Told
CoDDLlNG or HUNS
SEVERELY CENSURED
Captain Allen, Slayer Of Walker,
Released On Bond Though
CharFed With Murder

tInue their laxity there win Be more
murders uIiis4s livery Hun and /. w. W.
80 placed behind barbed wire"
ThiS is the view expressed yester.
day by j. A. Balch and endorsed by
other members Of the Hawaiian Vigi
lance Corps at its meeting yesterday
when the shooting Of 3. j, Walker by
" CRptainH Henry Allen was discussed.
III ascribe the murder to the neg,
ligenee of congress, of the attorney
general, and Cf our own local federal
district attorneys Office aud this will
not be the last shooting of alien en-.
emies. There will be more if an In.
ternment camp is. not provided here
for men Of this kind, -, Balch added.
Hits oficials j ...
"The officers of the law will not. act .
private citizens must. This is appar
emily what the Vigilance Corps has
come to believe
1t was related at the meeting that
for weeks Walker prated of his pro.
German sympathies, voiced hatred Of
the Stars and Stripes, sneered at and
cursed the American soldiers. It was
charged that his is not IN isolated case
and those who have come forward in
Allen s defense refer to series Of in
eidents In which individuals have
shown themselves to be disloyal by
words and acts here and on other Is.
lands. 1t is pointed out that these
things have all been reported in one
way or another to officials charged
with enforcing laws enacted to meet
eases of the kind.
what happenedf" one man ask ed
yesterday, and then gave the answer.
Nothing, just nothing. All the way
from Washington to Honolulu they
seem to think these traitors are
harmless. It's no wonder a loyal
private citizen reaches the point that
he feels there is nothing left for him
to do but take the law into his OVID
hands"
Quickly Gets Bail
Murder in the first degree, the charge
necessarily laid against Captain Allen,
ordinarily is regarded as an unbaila
hle Ofense. 1t may not be doubted
that public sentiment as expressed on
all sides yesterday enabled "Cap
tain' Allen to preside before a great
admiring. throng last night in his lit.
Eel soft drink stand at Aala Park be.
IRE which Sunday night he killed hiA
man.
THAT is an indictment Of our Off
eials, said a spectator who stood
watching the crowd about the stand.
After "Captnin Allen 3 bond in the
sum of $4,000 had bern signed yester
day by Fred l.. Waldron and f. p.
Fogarty, Allen, who is a man of sixty,
entered the office of Liquor Licensr
Inspector w. II. Hutton who has known
him for years. He quoted this little
verse to Hutton:
"Then burst your bars asunder,
And let this prisoner free,
THAT he may sing those hymns of
"ThOse songs Of liberty"
Wins Sympathy
The first shock that the community
felt oyer the tragedy speedily grew
into u wave of sympathy for the STAY
er when "Captainh Aliens acts of
patriotism and his un6agging loyalty
were recalled and brought into compar-
isOn with the acts and words of the
man he killed.
Out Of the store of knowledge he
gained in the fifteen years he served
in the American navy, Captain"
Allen has been giving instructions to
the Boy Scouts, implanting in the
youth of all the varied races that make
up the Boy Scout organization his own
OH fashioned notions of patriotism.
The illustration that accompanies the
article is a picture taken some months
ago in the grounds Of the Capitol build,
ing at a time when Captain" Allen
was teaching Troop w how they tied
knots in the navy and how life line
should be handled. Before the war
he might have been regarded as a
harmless old gentleman who talked
too much about the Flag and about
ones duty to his country. His habit
of raising his naval standard every
day over his little soft drink stand
then might have been looked upon as
a fOible. In recent years his words
and acts have taken on a different
meaning, however.
I. w. w. Member
Walker has been characterized as q
fair sample of anarchist and this sum,
ming up of his character seems to be
borne out by the papers the police un,
earthed among his effects. One out.
growth of the tragedy that may have
it's value is that it has been learned
that the Industrial Workers of the
World, whose activities paralyzed in,
dustry in Australia, and whose efforts
shut down the great shipbuilding yards
at San Francisco and Seattle at a
time when ships were the most urgent
need of the Nation, are organized here
in Honolulu. Walker, his papers show
was a member of the l. W. w. in good
standing.
All of two months ago Walker was
openly expressing his pro German senti
ments on the streets to chance Corners
Fire Chief G. II. ThurstOn tells Of al
encounter he had with Walker, whom
h" had known for wears. ThurstOI
ask eIl him iOcularlv when he would be
going over to fight.
Fight for whOmf' Walker is re
ported to have answered, OF I'd fght
Tor anybody, it would be for the Ger
mans" he went on aggressiyely.
From this he is reported to have
gone, on with TRADE Of pabuse ,direete,
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