Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-30
CHARGE or COERCION AZ THE HOME
Inmate Reward Says lie Mns Dis-
chnrgch for rnIiticnl ncnsnna.

inmate HeNnFd says iit WINS lltN-
charged for Political Reasons.
GRAND ISLAND, oct 90 Specially
NJ. V. Beyard an inmate OF the
Soldiers Home. was discharged last
night because when Commandant Will
son asked him some questions concern.
ing certain information Bcyard gave
to General Dilworth a few days ago he re
fused to answer Commandaut Wilson saya
Beyard said to Dilworth that Mrs thinner
had taken goods from the comnissary ana
given them to her sons before they went
away. Wilson commanded Bcvard to APP
pear before him yesterday Afternoon and
asked him what information he had in
regard to the charge. Beyard told him his
counsel had advised him not TO say any
thins. Wilson stated that IL he did not say
what he knew he would be discharged. Be
ward still refused and was thereupon given
his papers and discharged. Beyard is a
republican.
Officers and members OF Lyon post Grand
Army NJ the Republic have taken the mat
ter up and demanded speedy investigation
Commandant Wilson has sent The Bee
two long statements from the Home. one Of
these Is in the nature OF an AFFIDAVIT from
the officers OF the Home, replying 10 Gen
eral Thayers charge that the coming Of
tho delegation sent by Commissioner Rus
sell was privlly made known to COmmandant
Tho AFFIDAVIT reads:
We. the undersigned officers of the Sol
diers Home at Grand Island, NCh,, do
solemnly swear that we knew nothing what
ever about John NJ. Thayer, General c. j.
Dilworth and Mrs. Congdon going to visit
the Homo ON the 22d inst until they came
into the Home building, and that nothing
was placed on the table extra from the reg
uar bill of fare made by the commandant.
the matron and the head cook the evening
before, as required by the established rules
of the Home.
JOHN W. WILSON, Commandant.
DAN ALTHEN, Adiutant.
s. SADLER, NJ. d, Surgeon.
HANNAH ZTMMER, Matron.
Subscribed and sworn to before me the
18th day of October. lSe5
J. E. FITZPATRICK, Notary Public.
(Seal)
James Folsom, head cook at the Home,
swears that there was nothing extra ordered
or cooked on the 22d, the day that John
NJ. Thayer, General Dlworth and Mrs. Cong
don were a. tho Home. and that the bill of
fare that day served had been made the
day before the committee visited the Home
by the commandant, the matron and him
self
Joseph Merritt, Samuel T. Gilbert. John
T. Strum, Lucinda Strum, Olive Galloway,
Sophia Colman S. w Brown. Louisa Brown.
William Regal, Mrs. Rebecca Gilbert,
John France. J. IL. Smith, John f.
Scott II. f. Martin a. j. Henderson,
w. II. Hayt, John CroXton. James Cramer
G.. w Swan, Joseph .COlman Hugh Galloway,
Sureldia Busler, J. NJ. Burd H. p. Macloon.
Thomas Clark. Michael Smith. Joseph J.
Mcpherson, John Lions James Folsom, o.
d. Rhodes and John Highland, inmates Of
the Home, say that the ALLEGED charges are
false and without foundation. Under the
present management to their best knowl-
edge and belief, no inmate of the Home
has been in any way. manner or form de-
privod OF any necessary comforts to which
they are justly entitled. or have in any
way been dealt with partially.