Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-09-10
TwENTY-SECOND STARTED FOR
HOME YESTERDAY.
FORT LEAvENWoRTH MONDAY
DIR. DUNCAN Is COMING HOME WITH
THE REGIMENT.
Hi, Trial Postponed Until October
Lieutenant Morgan Acquitted
Fourth Missouri Out of Quar-
antine-Sick Sent to
Philadelphia.

HARRISBURG, PA, Sept. 9.-(Speciaio
In four trains, the Twenty-second Kansas
got away from Camp Meade in short or
der this afternoon and by this time are
well on their way to Fort Leavenworth,
their mastering out point. which they ex-
pect 20 reach next Monday afternoon.
Tents were struck about IL this morning,
and at 3 o'clock the first section. bearing
Colonel Lindsay, Lieutenant Colonel Gra-
ham, Major Stewart, surgeon, and Com
panieS a, z and c, left camp. The other
sections, which followed the first within an
hour were made up as follows: Second,
Companies d, Z and f, Major Doster;
third, Companies G.. II and |, Captain
Leister in command; fourth, Companies
X l. and NJ, Major Harvey commanding.
At this point n car was added 10 the first
section to relieve the crowded condition
of the troops. on the second section was
an extra Pullman car containing these sick
mem bers of the regiment in charge of Reg
mental Surgeon Luis C. Duncan, who re-
turred to the regiment from Virginia on
Wednesday: ]. NJ. Sinner, Company ID;
D. L. Reed, Company NJ: Ray Beecher.
Company NJ; w. w. Ghoisen, Company
X: NJ. 3. McElfresh. Company Il; l.. l..
Stahl, Company H: r. NJ. Coulsen, Com
pany H; F. d. Renters, Company D; d.
Watson. Company C; d. L. Minich, Com
pany H; Biddison, musician. None Of these
is seriously i'll.
DIR. Duncan informed The Journal corre-
spondent that continuance of his Virginia
| trial for completely in the desecration of
the graves of Confederate Officer ]. T.
Duke and other Confederates at Manassas,
August 6, had been granted until the Oc-
tober term, with bail in the sum of 81, 100.
| He was rather bitter in speaking of the
treatment he had received at the hands of
some of the papers of his home section dur
| ing his troubles, and said that, had he been
| given more time to prepare his case, he
| would have been acquitted by the court
| martial instead of being convicted on one
| of four counts and sentenced to two
months suspension on half pay, with
regimental reprimand. He had been served
| with the charges against him al 10 o'clock
| at New York, and at IL the next morning
| his trial began. DR.. Duncan said that the
| court-martial sentence had not been car
| ried out as yet.
| Lieutenant Guy Morgan, Twenty-second
Kansas, charged with completely with Dr.
| Duncan in the grave desecration at Ma
| nassas, has been acquitted. although the
finding of the courtmartial has not been
| officially promulgated as yet. He returned
| home with his regiment this afternoon
The regiment was provided with four
| days travel rations and coffee money,
and is travelling by way of indianapolis
| and Kansas City. The regiment did not
| take part In to-day's review by Secretary
| Alger and General Shafter. because of its
| departure for home in few hours
| The Fourth Missouri, which had to aban-
| don its camp and live in shelter tents near
| Oberlin, owing to the close proximity of
| several cases of diphtheria in a farmer )
| family, moved back to the old camp to-day.
Among the. sick soldiers removed from
| Camp Meade to hospitals in PHILADELPHIA
| this week We're the following:
| st. Joseph's-F. A. Shoemaker. O. l..
Brown. st. Joseph, Mo-: W. E. Mason,
| Company l.; o. Z. Simpson, Company f
T. Clark. C. II. Miller, Company F: P.
Slater, Company G: C. II. Manon Com.
pany l.; B. R. Marshall Company X
| Fourth Missouri; II. NJ. Short, Company a;
Ed dry, Company J.. Twenty-second Kar-
sas.
Medico- Chirurgical-Charles CorneliuJ
| Company c; Corporal Ward, Z. Move.
Company B; Charles J. Lorenz Guy Ni)-
pier, Company 3; Corporal Guy Whitman
| Company A: George w. Cleary, Company
A: Musician Charles F.. Lyman: Sergeant
Walter Ferree, Company n; Sergeant d. 3.
Foster, Company 1: V. c. Saner Company
| L: George c. Stevens. Company B. Fred
Berkeley. Company f; J: J. Blevins Con-
pany B: Robert Adams, Company f: b. ID.
! Lamr, Company NJ; Emery Bancroft. Com
pany E; William Johnson, CompanyE: r.
| W. Seidridge. Company L: A. C. Trout Cdm-
pany H: NJ. Sample, Company l., Fourth
Missouri.