The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-07
CAPT. KoLsHON NET HIM.
ArtIIleryman Who Wanted TO Ride
Free With the First Regiment.


The statement recently made
Of the atlanta Artillery. who.
together with a number of members OF his
company. was recently cash.ered reflect
ing upon the members OF the court mar ual,
attracted some attention in Savannah
One of the charges against Capt. Kemp
ton before the court martial was that he
as captain OF his company, certified 10 the
daily muster roll Of the company showing
a larger number Of men than were
actually present with the com
pany in camp. Capt. Kemp
ton in his criticism of the fading
of the court martial, asserted that on
the occasion of the visit of the Savannah
military to Atlanta last fan to attend the
governors inaugural a member OF the
Atlanta Artillery came to Atlanta on the
military train with the First Regiment
and was doubtless certified 10 by Col, Law
ton as being a member of his command.
The assertion was Investigated by the
Morning News several days
ago, and the results were
given in the Morning News.
Capt Henry Kolshorn OF the German Vol
unteers, stated to a Morning News re-
porter yesterday what he knew about the
matter.
When we were preparing TO 90 10 At
lanta," said Capt Kolshorn. "a young
fellow came 70 me who said he was
member of the Atlanta Artillery, and that
he was very anxious TO get back to At
lanta to parade with his company at the
governor Inauguration. He said he had
his uniform with him and wanted to know
az I could take him with my company. l
told him that 1 could not do that but that
# he would go to the railroad authorities
and state the case to them they would
probably allow him to go to Atlanta 10
N a &c "a q Z ha mi
ttaTy were to be transported free That
was the last / saw of him until we were
getting aboard the train at the Central
depot, when I met him in the depot He
had on his artillery uniform aud spoke
to me. l asked him if he had trauspor-
tation to Atlanta and he replied that he
had. / did not care to question him any
more closely. He got aboard the train
and went to Atlanta with us. He was not
included in the statement of the number
of men carried by my company and / am
satisfied that he was not on the list OF
any of the other companies. He could not
have been as he travelled III the uniform
Of the Atlanta Artillery. Whether he did
actually secure permission from the rail-
way authorities 70 go on that train on ac-
count of his being a member of an Atlanta
company and travelling in uniform ! have
never taken the trouble to investigate. I
have no idea that Col. Lawton knew he
was aboard the train. do not remember
the young mans name, but he was in
PRODUCED to me by Mr.. Elias Brown, who
said that he was a relative
1t is not generally known here proba.
bly, that Capt. Kempton is a Savannah
man. Whether he was born here is not
known, but he spent his early days here
and held different positions in the clerical
line with firms here. He is said to have
been quite religious young man, so much
81 he n md ho fr,g.
try. but he was given no announcement
by the church of which he was a member.
One of his old acquaintance here recall
ed yesterday that Kempton once delivered
religious lecture in Jacksonville. This
was some years ago, however.