New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-26
FORD'S WOES AS A SOLDIER.
HE TAKES EXCEPTION TO LIEUTENANT
HONEYCUTTS STATEMENT

MAINTAINS THAT HE WAS CRUELTY TREATED AT
FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF HIS CONDUCT.
Max Ford the Polish Hebrew soldier whose al
legations of ill-reatment by his felow-privaes In
Battery l. list Artillery. United States Army, were
nrinted in Yesterdays Tribune, related some addi-
tlonal details OF the hard life he asserts he en-
dured while stationed at Fort Hamilton 10 I'M
the reporter yesterday. Ford has been III '''S
country about six years. and although he Is unaoe
TO speak English with huency he can read latn
clearness all that Is said 10 MN III oui he,na
For all that Ford does not strike one as peins
man Of particularly bright parts and in the race os
the that Is generally taken ny ,e aet nreten
sions to some ability, IL Is di,tui' 20
understand why man OF fora c ar,nv Probably
however the reason is to be found IN the statene,'
that Il, esH, nal I'VE needed tailor at the time
Ford was enlisted. and we took nm on 90 Ia s U,
put at regular work" Respecting TINS statement
Ford said yesterday: ,, ,,. u.,s
70 do tailoring In order do the work 1t is neces-
sary to have sewing machine l had mace sTs,a ar
and with my first months money l meant to pay q
S Svs been Sowed to have machine after
had been In the battery a few days announcer ldlIoI
was enlisted and as ne had sufficient money to get
y machine at once l was taken from the tailoring
and put TO regular work
FoRDrs TROUBLES BEGIN
1t was then according TO Ford, that his troubles
began and If only half he asserts is true. there are
plenty OF grounds for investigation. Ford duplicates
officers noncommissioned officers and privates ankle
IN his recital of the ill-treatment he underwent
When confronted with Lieutenant HoneycutH iy
some indignation: We'll let them look into the
whole case, and II they md have done anyoniS IS
wrong IN dne tnee have always done
everything that was wanted Of me. and never as
R1t IL is not to his proper or improper discharge,
draw attention but TO the question solely Of the
cruel treatment he maintains ne suffered at f9Tt
'hazed" that a bottle of ink was poured upon him;
that pork was thrown at nm he AT 'ae has a
ready been told. Yesterday he supilemented ms
He said that in addition to personal Injuries he
de wS to g in Rccf found dn m %o
night. and on another occasion 81 IN money ana
says that he reported the theft to eutenam5
were destroyed. and he was compelled to make
that he was frequently struck in the face and that
on one occasion. when private beat him: he went
TO the commanding officer with the cut and bleeding
face.
THE OFFICER WAS INDIFFERENT. HE SAYS.
The officer told him he would look into the mat
ter next morning. but. according to Ford. he did not
trouble himself further about 1t. on another night
he was asleep in bed. he AYERS. when all OF the
twenty -four men who slept in his dormitory threw
their shoes him. and he considerably
Knocked about in consequence. Ford's story con-
tinues substantially:
ION every payday used take the to the
canteen ana spend SO or in drink for them in or
der induce them to treat me better, but things
got so bad that some of the non-commss toned Off
often used to tell me that If did not desert
from the regiment | would be killed"
Ford said that he had witnesses belonging TO
other batteries stationed at Fort Hami lion who
would bear his statements and reiterat ed his in
tention to bring action for damages ainst the
authorities. He puts his treatment dow.1 TO the
prejudice of his felow-soldiers against the Semitic
race in general, and gave TO the reporter he
of Hebrew who had deserted from Fort Hamilton
in consequence of the seventies heaped upon him
by the men of the battery TO which he at
bod