Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-29


Sir Frederick Middleton, On Trial at Ottawa
for Lootng Valuable FRS in 1885.
A committee of the dominion house Of
commons is now investigating the charge
against Gen. Sir Frederick Middleton
COMMUNICATIVE chief of the Canadian
militia. He and other government OH
Gals are accused of lOoting valuable frs
during the Riel rebellion, and the case
creates q great sensation. Evidence was
given that the general gave orders in
writing and in person to seize tbs furs
found in the possession OF complainant,
Bremuer, q trader in the haIf-bTeed set
Element of Bresaylor. Bremner was
charged with being d rebel. He came
into the nearest fort to Justify imselt
and was arrested and afterward freed
without trial and told to go ABOUT his
business The furs were traced from the
moment they were packed by the gener-
al IS orders. The general alleges that the
orders for the seizure were given when
his mind was absorbed in military duties,
80 that he does not remember the cir
cumstances. 1t is likely that the scandal
will force Middleton TO return to Eng
land.
Mai.-Gen. Frederick d. Middleton IS
the third son of the late Maj Ten.
Charles Middleton of the English army.
He was educated at the Royal military
college, Sandhurst, England, and OBJ
tanned the first commission as ensign on
December 80, 1912. He saw his first
active service in New Zealand, where
some of the chiefs who had signed a
treaty accepting English protection and
sovereignty in 1910 had in 1874 broken
out in insuraection and destroyed an Ed
gIish settlement on the south coast.
was in 1916 that the general, then an err
sign, arrived on the scene, aud
a short time afterward took part
in the attack upon Wanquln. After
the close Of the war in lS4Ss he
was sent to India, where he served
during the Lenthall rebellion. During
the time of the SepoY rebellion of 1857
50, Gen. Middleton particularly distin-
guished himself. In the famous expedi-
ton for the relief of Lucknow he served
as orderly officer to Gen. Franks, and
took part in the action at SuthOrpore,
and in the many engagements which oe-
Cured during the advance. In the
week of hard fighting which preceded
the capture of the city, Gen. Middleton,
who had become an aide-de-camp To
Gen. Lugard, was conspicuous for
bravery, and for his gallant conduct at
the storming of Banks House and the
Montiniere, he was rewarded with the
brevet of major. Lucknow was IN the
possession of the British on the 10Th or
March, but officers were allowed little
rest, and on the 18th Of the next
month, April, the general, then
captain, and a staff officer TO Sir
Edward Lugard, took leading part III
one skirmish with the rebels at Agem-
ghur, where for the personal bravery hs
displayed, and for his heroic conduct III
risking his own life to save those OF COM
rades, he was recommended by Gen.
Lugard to Lord Clyde for the Victoria
Cross. Lord Clyde refused the recon-
mendation, ON the ground that Middle
ton was on the personal staff at the time.
Gen. Middleton served throughout
the mutiny and was many times spec
lally mentioned III home dispatches. III
1861, during the Trent affair, he was
sent to Canada as major of the Twenty
ninth regiment. The station of tbs
corps was at Hamilton. While in Can
ada he married Miss DOucet, memoei
of a well known family OF Montreal.
After serving for ten years on the stan
of Gen. Wyndham, he left Canada OH
the withdrawal of the British troops.
He then received the appointment OF
oommandant of the Royal military col
Iege, Sandhurst, where ne had studleu"
In November, 1884, he was appointed 10
the command OF the militia Of Canada'
on the retirement Of Gen. Lugard.