CORRESPONDENCE

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 44, 24 August 1889, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

■ ♦ ■ DH. HTEUHKL'S VINDICATION, j T" TUB SDITOB. Bm,—l rend «rith much interest, in 1 vour last wwk'i issue, the latter out Minion of Dr. Bt«uW, the Gorman Consul, respecting the Bo#i tragtdy Hi* otyett moms to h%re boor, threefold—Finely. to oonriet yuu of having made ineorrnct and misleading sUb>. meats regarding thn affair ; «econdly. j to " enable you to loy tlto full evidence of th» com liofttro the public "; »nd, thirdly, to rindioate hie derision, and jnetify his nontencn in the mm Aftor a careful paruesl and re-perusiil of all that he baa eeid, it aaoma to ma that ha ha« failed oampUtely and diea*troo«lr on errrr point. Moreover, i * to o-laWly eoileed thai Dr. Steohel won etrencty btonted a#arnot tho tietim, and in fmeonr of tho culprit. I do not lor a moment enppoee that ho «ne fonaeioua of thie, but the biaa ie > clearly thora. Let mo giro ona inetanee: - Jest before hi* death Malaga, ao Dt. tHeubel informc ue, eaid " h* had • done no wrong, •either bad ho htended toatoal on tho German land, had three btaek hem had cjunJUl him, one of whom bad an axe, with trUeh h* etrnoh hit hand '• (Than i* nW WOtSd 0f tVt mnWHNO#>t t ftftd If inl tsWcfnn not entpritanc that Dr. Font, when ho examined the body, HI note** ear wouadeauced by an ' •»ora knife) An Dr. Stonhal i *_, anr * " 9Jhm anananaaeA hi •eaavaiMiliiji ■itVlW inMmi el ; I Miwmbym\ JttoTt . IfWR CpßLaiimT to ha . Nyl Mifti^ ( ■MI PJMB <

Lot*»k* -* -V- |iri •at is to+mmSmmWM*, Or- •hmftsfftWlWvcWifeftftS|3 anWTTjajfa; I • ** *** * m Tke staliwiafti sjawjliiiiid of Iry an Dr. •laakot at lawn*** and ■!*■*/ of iegworetkeJtke victim of the Sag* k» trafody kad b***'shot dead wkk a gua: that ike oaos was alaarly AskA atftr ■*» «Jwll*V««wV MWVwT| W| aw •■"aMßft a. amalaftgktat of tko swot dagre* ia (wkatawor tkat aapraasioaaaay msaa); r. tkat tko—kjrit wai wanimil to three m month*' imprlowiaaaat, and tkat tkia M punishment waa " aaeaadiugiy light." , 4 Dr. Btoabol crsmds to hU dosaoa. a! atratJoa, firet WJ&m out a deeldsdly i* I delusive pmrafaH) tkat he " will «aable if ! tko editor to lay tho full evidence of id I the cjaa before the publio." If tko i», reader will aoarek from tko beginning , ■• I to the end of Dr. SUubal'a letter and I ie I opinion, all that ko will find 1* aetata- i r-; moot by Dr. Strabat, presumably. t- j based upon tko *videooe which ko i k j beard. The tridaoos itself ko doee! d | not give, aud tkorefvre ko does not I '• "enable yua to lay it before tko! >• public." I am quit* ooaUnt, kowever, A to aooept kia etetemeot aa a fair aad e aeouratw summary of tko facta of tko , s ( case, a* they won disclosed t» him a j in the evidence given by the various i : witnesses 0 Thore appear to have boon six witb neaees examinml, aad a atataweat waa i. also made by the culprit. Moe. Tkreo d of th* witasssst, AJ*. Nan, and Uupo, ■ wora fwmotfts,, Nona of tkoat tksao f saw tko oesarreoos, nor did Dr. Funk. • The only eye-witnesses were AhJa and ' Torn. Moe's fellow-oouatryaian, fellow. ■ labourera, companions, and, I don't • hesitate to say, his aoootapltoss, aad it • is upon th* evidsnse of these two ; I black boys that Dr. Steubel implioitly 1 1 relioa. Waa their oridanea caVef idly , >' sifted aad teeUd by eroaa xaminatJoa f » Dr. Steubel doe* not iaform us, but j , > assume that it waa, aad that *v*ry j 1 uieaus waa adopted to elicit th* actual , » truth. I hare already accepted Dr. | ' Steubel'* etatecaaat a* a fair aad accu- j i rat* summary of the evidence. I now I make a farther aad mora important lOMsaasjoa, and, accept tko evidence • itself aa embodied ia that statement as 1 absolutely truthful, I will aasnme that! | • Moe's natural desire for omtiaaad life . i 1 was subordinated to kia love of truth, t i aud that AiaU aud Tom, rising superior i : to all fselmgs of friendship for Mo*. 1 and dislike for tko Samoa... told a 11 • simple truthful, aad uuverniehed' i story. Assuming and oonoading all j t this, what do** Dr. SUubel's own c statement show f I submit that it! ! uonann* moat fully and emphatically I i your assertion tkat Mo* was guilty of C ! duliberate murder. J What are the fact. ? Dr. Sieub.li I tells us that Malaga triad to persuade ' Aiala to loev* the trerman firm, and I , come to his village; tkat "he used bad language," not towards Aiala, * but "towards ths Germans ia geaeral *■ aud the (Jermao fain" (a truly atro- ■ uicua crime!) ; tkat he aaid " the d Uormaa* ill-ueed tko labour boy*" * (another awful crime! Mvoryoa* ° knows that no labour boy waa over a ill-uaad by tho Crarmana); and that u " ke promised Aiala food Iking* to tl eat if he would go with kbn " (Tkia " was th* most diabolical crime of the " lot!) Naturally Aiala " got fright-! ti sued." Poor Aiala I Hi did not 1 want to go to a Santoau village. Ho k did not like to hear b«d laui(nag* ; h* ti nev*r ua*d it hiau*|f. H* did not « want " good thing* to sat," wherefore « **;.***** *°» have triad lo atop him, although ko ■ waa an d—irea* of kidaappinr; him Ami. told ki. Mo. « f. 1 To^.^ o, m,* U **• «•*«« « thiags which Mawsfa had don*. •* %■ Moo, fowUag- of ptoea, Aiala'* fright voaiakod. Toil « •- *• «ki«-*wf tU%a«2lf th Why did Mao tak* a leadad Van wkk » was ily*i Iftd wilt 111 waaaoaa," anna an Or. skaftkalt ana ama ft| >. Maw*, tko vwroaaa want ka asn a fJI m gjjßJ| hod . sßftsnajana ! X \lawi ajuans anna ftH ~J

i ,% aaag WlMpMrM** mmmmwj *• a^nmmjmjMwm^awswamm?w > ammsw M j^^^^J , m. " He wm atom ami MAn woaanae. N Y« if tab won art am der, • fed. brutal, mlardU .ejiiilw I wmM lik« itkMt af «W ttp •crime of —tarn soasleta hi Oat I May. ! •• M.» .lid mi iaiaai to kill A Talafefe," Drftmhelatm, Nodoah M«* mm to, aad Or. fJtoebet believe him. Mm aaaM aat anty jraV hian ; pasted to my otherwise, but a mm/i : nets are. as a rale, the ban ia duettos* of bta fatoatfom, aa< 1 there to a am aaatiaa fa lav i founded upon mm ait mmmm i mm, that " Iw* nemo* law* i the probabb i;■mai i■ >i of btoeota i Wbm mm Mm ami a daaty mm I against another, Hb rigid to emefem that be tatmde tm imimnin ■ which Maj naturally be atmatod « follow fr»vn m m aet, md to am pve»nt mm tbara to aothtog la rabal this presumption. - ' Dr. Stoubel himself mm: "Xm Tulafale, wto»am atone* amid bam DMa easily astum away uvJHto mm wittmmibMvto. I aammtotS toitor ladatoa.'* Tbm, kilties tab aanatoa. k to Mil* aaasvaflaa? tarn Dr. Steebel abaabTbma arrived at ma detirionhedid. U is right to my, however, that Dr. Btoabal ma ma. prist agsjaet tha Samoa Tinas. Mm wmmntoamdto ■is Moatba' totpriammtat wot farm. It is true that faatotm to mam to mmm froM faa dato of hb feat not ennsmato too mwajafm from aaahmmamaa " iemrrmt aadmieleading" atotommt of a vary gram aareia.—l mo, etc., Wau Gbona. P.8.-It m aa OMtUNMI, ff not altogether unprecedented, thing to lad tbo time of eonftnamewt mat ataman before trial included to tha termor faayriaaa*, metit to whiob a prisoner to sentenced. In amfammf prfamera for trilinr or venial offences, judges frequently take such a thing into consideration, hat tha term of imprisonment itself always e.iininsnee* from tha data of sentence. OVERCROWDING THE HABBOB. TO THE KDITOft. Bia,—Will you kindly grant me •paoa to call the attention that bo, or tra to ba, to tha groat need tbara ia of tome arrangement whereby the fare. ray of the harbour should be kept as &«r of obstructions as circumstances will permit. At present it seeme nobody's buunest. and vessels, large iud small, are scattered about the limited anchorage ia such a way that he entranm or exit to and from the nner anchors*" under sail to riaky. if tat impraattoabto- Tha passage be•sen H10.M.». Bophie and the EUmien is mdha» been blocked by the isndy htuo anhaanar Umfe for aotne ime past, whOo half •aa. BO ur's work maid atom her fa a position quits as tmveeJaat for ba*, »ad ant at the ray of others Time was, within my aeonory of Apia, *bsa large slssil ailing vessels worn magiy Moored » tha matom aide of faa faraway, ad vnsih eaald mam aaigowithatrisko foeliag. At freeeat it is iliefl— «»il uasW ° aeaaMt a*. aagesmnta, faa aator maasls wQI ami ham to stoy to faa farbamra math. If it If i iiiihij to ham two SoK wbieh I doubt, eenld iber net , m may mpoaslbtotor pOraUbebrmagatodm'amb by ! kmT aba.bamtMambaritotodoM. =^*2mir^D-fas: bmnmi'bS! 'ftojam .11 |mbaat •»• raaa mjmjmamto* la aamae aj,| Hgai-ejgn m mw tMa am KHlßwMmasT ' isfil ' i^ksm

| hj LOKD C'UOsbUHJLL. 2 LOMBM, July JI. f fsum. Rajrootjrsl CsttmcsMix,anaftk J| ingat Binnlagkaam,onidtWfW r 'mm nnnmsJaani *koa*d ko mA 2 with tho wiow of armalarhuag loon t. P^^t,»l!^lw3asft4ral », Lauionehouldbomaek Tka Okiai i* BacTetaryfc«lro*andoo«bttowol r> eoftM tko owortaw* from Um Certtoa* KatkmaHeta. If feaaj la* offered adaquaU soaarHy b| Qroat B>Hain would advanoo \ n hnodrod mflKoaa to pay the landY lord*. Bo praanjaail to stand Am • Hrmingkam at tka next .laction U •* reqoealed to do »o.