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Show KILLS FLAG DEFAMER; JURY ACQUITS HIM HONOLULU. T. H.. May 1, A jury, after deliberating six minutes, today acquitted ac-quitted Captain Henry Allen, retired sea captain, who, April 14 last, shot and killed S. J. Walker for cursing the American Amer-ican flag. Immediately following his acquittal, Allen was surrounded by soldiers, who draped a flag about him and. formed a bodyguard about him as he left the court. Walker. In a dying statement to the police, admitted that he had been shot after he had condemned the United States and expressed the wish that all American soldiers in Europe would be killed. |