Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 73, 13 December 1893 — PROVISIONAL Dynamiters ! SOME STARTLING DISCLOSURES. [ARTICLE]

PROVISIONAL Dynamiters ! SOME STARTLING DISCLOSURES.

« i Tl* llyinmlf Ep«lt farj 1V.WTO' l'LWE On May 31st ETplained. — P0LICE 0FFICERS Did the Work. Ihe Marshal Acquainted with the I'acts. Tl8 ŪFFiCERS YET la HiS EMPLOI | I The Threatening Placard on Claus Spreckeis' Gate. PLACED THERE by POUOE 0FFICERS l I I Sworn Affidavit of Harry Juen, A Prominent Actor in the Plot, and an EX-POLICE-C APT AIN. Our readers will yet remember the scare whieh was croated in our community on the last day of May tbisyear, by tbe finding of a bundle coutainiug explosives ou tbe premises belonging to Dr. R. McKibbin, next to tbe residence of Her Majesty tbe Queen, and not far distant from tbe barracks occupied by tbe Provisional Government’s soldiers. Tho howl and outcry whieh was raised against tbe Queen and her faithful supporters were echoed all over the land, and repeated iu the jiugo press of the Uuited States. Opeu and bold aeeusations were advanced against tbeQueeu aud the Royalists, aud threats of deportatiou were heard among tho anuexationists, aud repeated in their org«ns. An ostensibly serious investigatiou was ordered and catriod out by ihe Marshal aud his chief detective Captain Wm. Larsen, but no results were ever brouglit to the notice of the puhlie. The Star. thc chief organ of the revolutionists, was too shocked to express tbo indignation whieh it felt the peir«etrators, bot confined itself ,the day after the find to write: Poison and dynamite! Of sach are “the weapons of a boly cause. " The whole town was alarmed; the military forces moved into < the palaee. Guards were donb!ed : » aud many references from « time to time were made to tbe i dastardly attempt of tbe ■ Royalists who intended to blow j up the barrac&s where the heroes ! ] of the P. G. slept'. Commisfionor ! « B!ount made a searehing inresti- j ] gaiion, and his shrewd and jndi- , i eial instinct filled him with | < suspicion. and he exonerated the ! ]

Royalists from having a haml in | the job. More than sii montbs ; have gone by, and althongh saspicions against the gang sap- j ported by E. G. Hitchcock. the ■ Marshal of the government, have been nameroos, no direct accusa- : tions or proofs have been forth- | coroiug whieh coald so!ve the . “mvsterv” as tbat efticient ( .) Marshal was pleased to term tbe cowardly plot. H.VBRY JTES TALKS. At last a solation has been i reached, becaase at last one of ; the actors in the conspiracy has j eome forward and raade a I . breast of evervthing. That he | tells the truth will be evident to j to anvbodv who iias followed the 1 ' aftair. That he does not even | trv to shield hiraself ean be seen : bv anybody reading his afSuavit. l We pnblish it in full, not alone for the pnrpose of finally placing the guilt where it belongs, aud exonerating all loyal snbjects of theQueen from the charges nnule i against the<n, bat we desire j especially to show t h e tax-payers w h a t k i u d o f a government Hawaii nei has j to-day and what kind of :v man the important departraent of the ; poliee is ruled by. ' HE KXEW ABOCT IT. As will be seen from the state- * ment of Juen. he confessed evf-ry- | thing to Marshal Hitc’ eoek when ■ to«t ofticial returaed from n somewhat protr«cted visit to Hilo. The Marshal not alone cautioned Juen to be silent and say nothing about it, bnt he retained in olllee t!ie men who led the conspiracy. To this very day these men Wagnerand Klemme aredrawiug their monthly wages from the puhlie treasury and veste»l with a responsible authority by the Marshal of the Kingdom. All indications are that besides the Marshal, chief detective Larsen kno\vs all about the unsavory business, and there ean be no doubt that the Marshal has reported the facts to his ‘ snperior Attorney-General Smith and that this official has conuived with him in shiekling the eonspirators. The utter disgrace, the contemptible sharae for the Provisional Govcrnmentthrough such action is too great to be jiroperlv expressed by onr feeble pen. But wo ask every honest citizen of this country irrespective of politieal opinion what confidence there ean be had in a government. whose high officials will put a etamp of apprjval on snch a dastardly and wicked plot hy refusing even to rebuke the plotters, or dispense with their services or dea! out to them their well merited punishment. A PART1SAN GOVFRNMENT. While these dynamiters and eon3pirators were kept in office and fattened on the money of the land bv the Marshai ol the Kingdom, and the Attorney-General, Crick, Sinclair and Walker were thrown into jail on a most flimsy charge, and Kept behind bo!ts and bars for two weary montbs, on!y to be acquitted as not a scintilla of proof could be found against them to subslantiate the charge that they were eonspirators and dynamiters. Crick was arrested becanse he casoally asked the apothecary on the Bosion how to make explosives while Wagner was reiained in his office as a poliee officer althoogh it was proven to the satisfaction ~of Hitchcock and Larsen, that he was dabbling in

i explosives and that he pnrchased | in April 1892 at difterent times j from Hollister and Company. i drnggists 24oz. n»tric acid, and 1 if the clerk remembers rightly ! some quicksilver—whieh was not recorded. The late Huutsman who | was politically affiliated with the ; Wagner set made enquiries in I several drog stores as to how l-ige qnautities cf nitr:c acid conld be purchasetl and at what . price. David Watson who had charge cf the work ou tbe Pali ! road reported that 40 ponn»is of ■ giant powder hadbeen stolen. and ! reports also reacbed tbe polioe i tbat giant powder was mis.-ing 1 frOm the qnarry at Moiliili. It is ! noteworthy tl»at there are no records in any of tbe drug stores that a single ounee at auy time haa heeu purohased by any royaiist or anybody connected with them. It should aiso be remembered that two of the stieks of g i a u t pōwder foand on the McKibbin premises were declared by experts to be old. A rKETTY MARSHAL. With snci» circumstances in evidence as tliese, with the report of Larsen aml with tha confession 1 of Jnen, ti»e Marshal still eon- | sidered himself jnstified in | smothering the c.»se, «nd retain- : ing tbe men in office. Tho abject fear whieh the anthorities evidently fee! in metingont jnstice to their cftending soppcrters raakes a piiil'nl spectacle. But it is a good cause for alami tliat there is in the service of the gov-t-rnment meu ready to do what J nen states wasdone, and high officials to shield and approve of such actious. We not alone eall the attention of the tax-payers to this fact, but we desire more especially the foreign reprosentatives to take notice of the unsafe state of aftairs. THE SPRECKELS PLACARD. The Marshal was also nnahle to find who comraitted tlio eontemptible aet of placing the threateuing plaeanl on Claus Spreckels’ gate. Although snch actinn was a mere child’s play in comparison with the dynamite epiaode.it wasa source of deep annoyance to Mr. Spreckels and his family. Detective Larsen investigated the matter, but either he did not Jesire to learn the truth, or, if he did, the Marshal refnsed to use any facts, the result at least was that uotbing ever was heanl abont the matter. WHAT WAS SAID. We published what the Advertiser said at the time as a good saraple of the sentiments whieh were created. We a!so pnblish a statement made by Robert W. Wilcox at the time whieh in the first instance aroused suspicions against the meu who now have heen accosed of the infamons deed. Tbe conntry bas Iearned a lesson whieh sbonId open the eyes of everybody to the true character and the roorals of the immaculate (1) Frovisional Govemment. Anticipating that the revolutionary organs will tbrow themselves on to us like wild cats, and try to make the statements and facts set forth by ns as false and valneless, we ooa- i sīder it proper to remind our readers of the fact that Harry i Juen bas been a favored and < trusted poliee officer under Mar- i shal Hitchcock representing the

Prorisional Govermuent antl w«s oae of the original conspirators who met in the Annon-on the 17th J.<inoary to b«ok up the Stevens Provisional Gov"t,, that Klemme. Wagner, Cortis, aml thd rest of the men joining in their nefarions scheme are still employeil l>y the Marshal, an<l that if called upon we are readv to prodnce fnrther evidence and stronger testimony to prove that onr si-«temedts are trustworthy, trnthful and reliab!e, even if they are da;naging aud damnable to the government.