Biography
Louis E. Welch was convicted of assault and battery in connection with the Inter-Island maritime strike in Honolulu. The September 29, 1938 Voice of the Federation reports that he began a nine-month sentence in the city and county jail the preceding week. It alleges that he had been tricked into changing his plea to guilty and reports that Welch and his witnesses maintained his innocence. The nine months is an imposed term, not actual completed service; his physical release remains unknown.
Louis E. Welch was convicted of assault and battery in connection with the Inter-Island maritime strike in Honolulu. The September 29, 1938 Voice of the Federation reports that he began a nine-month sentence in the city and county jail the preceding week. It alleges that he had been tricked into changing his plea to guilty and reports that Welch and his witnesses maintained his innocence. The nine months is an imposed term, not actual completed service; his physical release remains unknown.
He consulted attorney Esposito after changing his plea. The paper says an attempt to prosecute his witnesses for perjury had fallen through and the prosecution did not want to reopen his case. These statements are attributed to the contemporary union newspaper; no exoneration is claimed.
Voice of the Federation, September 29, 1938, page 1, “Frame Victim Goes To Bastile”.