The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-12
MS HATRED FOR HENRY.
ontELy hs SEEN IN A DIARY.
A Had state ofAnairs nstwesn HIN and
Iiis Arctic voysgers - DID I'm.
unity Really Lead 10
Uenry's Esecution'

WASHINGTON, Fob. THE Journal o
Private Henry, shot for stealing pro
visions, by order OF Lieut.. Greeley, Ia
the Arctic regions, covering the period
between October, 1888, and June, 1884
has been made public. He writes undel
date OF Ma 3: He (Whistler) who was
| lOudeBt In the denunciatiOn OF the un
fortunate who was tempted 10 purloin q
scrap OF meat was to-day caught In the
commissary, having broken open the
door, and was found with about u pound
of bacon In his pockot.
The entry ON May IL is; "Cowardly
action In Greedy wanting 10 shoot DR..
p. Also drew rifle on Bender. Calls
Kisslinghen liar and apologies to en-
listed men,"
-Four days later IL tho following
yesterday Biederbeck and Whistler
had row out doors and someone stole
Ellison's bacon, which was under
charge Lieut.. Greedy. Terrible strug-
Cling. Death by starvation actually had
no terror for us. We looked on with
stolid indifference our coming fate. A
few hours before death, instead OF crav-
ing for food they kept calling for water
or satisfied. All, with one exception,
were unconscious for hours before dy-
ing. Poor Lockwood came out of his
bag TO stand In an alleyway while a
moonshine distillery was going on and
was the last to receive his potation. Ere
tho rest of us had their share he re-
quested repetition of the dose from the
officiating steward and on being repri-
manded by the officers for such thing,
from the steward no turned
round to the doctor and said:
/ will go to the fountain head, and he
repeated his demand. Upon being alb
solutely denied, he dropped to tho floor,
and hardly ever opened his mouth
again to utter another word"
Map %, after noting that Whistler
is dying, Henry says; 81 called in at
the tent and was informed that five
that Pavy stole Ellison's rations,
and that the official record concern
ing 1t had been tempered with. A. w.
G. if he does die,dies the death Of mis-
cradle coward"
On the 2sth is the following entry:
"Poor Kisslengburg is sinking rapidly
and the doctor has given him up. LAST
night DR.. p. and 1t. G.. had another
squabble over the medicine. The ma
jority of us, fourteen, have given up all
hopes OF seeing our friends again, but a
| few still hope that there is a chance at
| the conclusion of this terrible tragedy,
to be welcomed with universal
exclamation, as worthy frontiersmen
of Uncle Sam and as men who have
made themselves immortal by spen-
did victory and innumerable suffer
ings, hitherto incompatible in the an
nails of Arctic explorations and against
all lows of nature.
The notes of the first four days of
June are brief memorandum of the
rapidly sinking condition of those left.
These were made Just prior to
his being shot. Extracts from
the other diaries show a deplor-
able state of affairs. INSTRUMENTATION
prevailed to considerable extent, and
quarrelling, sometime leading to blows,
was not an uncommon occurrence.
Sergeant Brainard's diary is in his
personal possession and not obtainable,
and Sergeant Connell declines to
allow his diary to be inspected, stating
thatit was written with the express I'M
Outstanding that no one but Gen. Hazen
should read it.