Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-08-16
Not that I know o'. Ihave reooiv..

Not that know o'. have receiv.1
 "ls the report that private Helry y.. shos and afterward eaten, fa'ses' ''7
 "Ihere were Tumors at Portsmo,.l that be had been killed and Inc -'- s"I vlvOTs had eaten his body. but I doci.,.'-- to give any facts in his case that I mi.I. know" '''5h'
 Twill the shooting be srb;ao. =, investigation by the War DeDartrcr.9s,,
 Not necessarily; men are shot e,.'.- day in mutIEies and no iavasriea.;l,.! made. Under some circumstarcas 2. might b. proper"
 "WIll there bo any investiratiop ,, the reported eating of the bodiasg~
 "An investigation could not bs mad either by the War or Navy Deparfrrar,' That IS matter Congress vii hars '..' .- look into. Thcn all of the fact w,li t1 presented and until then nothi,g v;9 @I be given out"
 Mr. Hagen says that Lieuteuaut C-,, ly's report on the entire expediiior r~;r probably be forwarded to him wf.5;, month. IL was generally coaceIa5 tI.t there ere records in Washington Tst substantiated the story, and both a-r1- and navy officers among thenselvas 5;5 not view 1t as an imPossltlI.r Lv az means.
 Sand a navy officer in the corriIo-,. tbe Navy Department. "TLorsl lfs.' Is no reason | know Of for tcIievir,, ,te story, the fact that there are no rsrorIs to substantiats 1t does not improve .4 all I..t- .aN r u1
 thing impossible about its Ton aD5'r standing here, with all the comforts about us, view such things with dread and horror. But you must remer,ba, that those men were reduced tl ,rcb condition that their moral iacu!tie, vs-s blunted. They should be coas-iers4 ln fact were irresponsible agents. S4E. preservation was their only thoaaJ, spJ they could not be expected Co n1-sE1s OD It.
 PORTsMOUTH, \. H., Aug I.-Sa,. retary Chandler returned ne-e to.dsv. aud tonight and Assoclatei Press agent visited him on the Ialispcosa to inquire concerning ;he truth Of an article m t.- days New York Times. The Secretary appeared tO be considerably rgitatei He sand, 'Iou may say that [ have seen the New York ImeS, at q that the Navy Department ha, received Lo such report, of the shooting ol Henry and of carri- Uallsm, as the Times gives. or course. you naturally next ask me ls the story true. 1 say that ! decline Co say. re- fuse to say anything further about the matter.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 1L-Ihe Times prints this morning tLe following iu dOuble-leaded type, written from dCcl- ments now Tn possession of the Navy Department at Washington. which add to the record of the miserable human suffering already published !n co1ugc- tiOn with the finding of the Greedy r,- lief expedition, the most -hucki-- stories of IuhImanity and cauHih4H-m. the facts of which have been n posses sion of Secretary Chandler for Es.Iy three weeks. But so closely have the been guarded and c. strictly have naval officers and sailors maintained tLe silence imposed upon them, that ua. even an inkliuE of the true and horrible condition of affairs Las Yet reacaed tls uubhc ear. For the sake of humanity and the American people, ths army authorities are striving Go keep the Ua-- ter hushed, but III an efficient Iuy5st.a- ton which Is almost sure t0 come. the facts will undoubtedly come out. The article then proceeds Co state that Commander Schiey dlsc1v- cred that many of the seventeen Usl said to have p.rished from sia.'aa1 had been eaten by their famishiug con rades. that the only men who escaped the knife were three or four who dleI of scurvy. The ampufatei liml- oi t-e men who afterwards peri5hcd were -- eriy GevOured as food. Cbas. B. H.a-. late of the Fifth cavalry, who vr-t. teered for the expedition, when uea.y dead from hunger, saw an opportunity to steal more thHn his share of ratluus. He was caught in the attempt aud shot by his comrades. When his body was fQru1 fha sts.. bod been atripagd and the flesh picked from the bones. Ever hls heart and lungs were eaten. C0n- mander Scliey on being interviewe3 and asked whether he knew Henry LaJ been shot, sad: "I Rm not prepared 's answer that question. And, furthtr. more, positively decline to be inter viewed When an official inquiry is made into The details of the trip shall -a. what have to say, if anything, and not before" Without another word the hurried below.
 LONDON, Aug 1.-The heat yes'e-lav ln London sent the mercury Up to % Fahrenheit. It was the most in:er-s heat experienced here iu twenty y,a.. Work was partially suspended. Sty.al deaths occurred from sunstroke.
 OGDEN, Aug. 14-Mrs. G. B. BucE.ev. lf New York, en route Cn the Ccltra Pacific train from Los Angeles. died %. just before reaching O-- len, and was buried here. She recently vent tO California in search os health md was on her way lack to New York. hoping to reach her husband and irells live.
 CRCLEvILLE, O., Aug. It.- Ihre 'hlldren on farm near South Perry. (bIo, n"med Robert Wood, Lotus J. W Od and Kate Shaw. all under ts1 ears of age, were burned Co death iua 'arn yesterday, having gone thar. o moke and m so doing set the bu..u- m fire.