Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-29
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NAaoAh SAtu ctuCu 14S1as nef uugnf5 l0UE1o to the wall, her eyes staring ont of her head, and her face as if hardened to stone.
 On the open green stretching before her all the regiments in the camp were drawn up in square, in the midst of which two empty coffins lay on the ground The unwonted sounds which she had noticed came from an advanc- ing procession. It consisted of the band ot the York hussars playing dead march. Next two saddle soldiers of that regiment, guarded on each side and &C., companied by clergyman. Behind came . crowd of rustics who had been attracted by the event. The melancholy procession entered the square and halt ed beside the collins, where the two con demned men were blindfolded and each placed kneeling on his coffin A few minutes pause was now given while they prayed
 A firing party of 12 stood ready with leveled carbines. The commanding off eer, who had his sword drawn, waved It through some cuts of the sword ex- erclse till he reached the downward stroke, whereat the firing party dis charged their volley. The two victims fell, one upon his face across his coffin, the other backward.
 As the yolley resounded there arose a shriek from the wall of Dr. Groves garden, and some one fell down inside, but nobody among the spectators with out noticed 1t at the time. The two ex- ecuted hussars were Matthaus Tina and his friend Ohristoph. The soldiers on guard placed the bodies in the collins almost instantly, but the colonel of the regiment, an Englishman, rode up and exclaimed in stern voice, Turn them out-as an example to the meni''
 The collins were lifted endwise and the dead Germans flung out upon their faces on the grass. Then all the regi- ments were marched past the spot, and when the survey was over the corpses were again coffined and borne away
 Meanwhile Dr. Grove, attracted by the noise of the yolley, had rushed out into his garden, where he saw his wretched daughter lying motionless against the wall. She was taken in- doors, but it was long before she recov- cred consciousness, and for weeks they despaired of her reason.
 It transpired that the luckless desert CTS from the York hussars had cut the boat from her moorings in Weymouth harbor, according to their plan, and, with two other comrades who were smarting under i'll treatment from their colonel, had sailed ill safety across the channel. But, mistaking their bearings, they steered into Jersey, thinking that island the French coast. Here they were perceived to be deserters and delivered up to the authorities Matthaus and Christoph interceded for the other two at the court martial, saying that it was entirely by the formers representations that these were induced to go. Their sentence was accordingly eommuted to fogging, the death punishment being reserved for their leaders
 The visitor to Weymouth who may care to ramble to the neighboring yil- lage under the hills and examine the register of burials will there find two entries in these w1rds:
 Matth: Tina (Cprpl.) ill His Maj esty's Regmt. of York Hussars and Shot for Desertion, was Buried June 30, 1901, aged 22 years. Born in the town of saarbruck, Germany.
 ''Christoph Bless, belonging to His Majesty's Regmt of York Hussars, who was Shot for Desertion, was Buried June 30, 1901, aged g years. Born at Lothaargen, Alsatia. J
 Their graves were dug at the back of the little church near the wall. There is no memorial to mark the spot, but Phyllis pointed it out to me While she lived she used to keep their mounds neat, but now they are oyergrown with net ties and sunk nearly fiat. The older vil- lagers, however, who know of the epi- sode from their parents, still recollect the place where the soldiers lie. Phyllis lies near.
 THE END.
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