Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-10-20
FALSE REPORT.
Arizona Soldiers Badly Stand
cred.
The FIRST TERRITORIAL Regiment Bid
Mi Participate in the LrxinS-
ton, KENNEDY, Riot


"A special telegram to the st. Louis
Globe Democrat from Lexington, KY,
says:
been brought INFO the city tonight, and
the city jail is strongly guarded by the
poIfce and the civilian officers as the
result of the attempt of members OF
the 18th New York and LIST Territorial
regiments to get into the city to lynch
AIvie Kitchen, the provost guard Who.
last night about midnight. shot and
killed private Henry Hefferman. OF
company b. 10Th New York. Early IN
the evening 800 soldiers congregated
at Camp Hamilton depot and when
the train was stopped the ment at
tempted to capture and run the train.
and were about to take the engineer
from his engine when officers from the
New York LIST Territorial and other
regiments arrived and after much diff
Guilty dispersed them. The train was
cleaned out and run into town empty.
Z" Scores of the men set out on foot
there not being enough men IN the
regiments left to act as guards. and
many of them have already arrived.
i half-doZen men on reaching the city
assaulted police officers Hanley and
Delaney. taking the 1atter's club from
him. The men escaped. Two COM
panies of the Sd KeEtucky regiment
are in the city and will stand guard at
the Jail tonight. The New York boys
have allied with them the half-breed
Indians and rough frontierSmen of the
1st Territorial all of whom have just
been paid off and are desperate
In contradiction to the above libelous
report the Lexington. Kentucky,
nadar Of October 12fh saws
1.-The members of the 1st Territorial
regiment feel deeply regretful that
they should be mentioned as being i'm
plicated in the troubles at Camp Ham
Iron on Monday night and the Leader
gladly makes an explanation for their
benefit which will set them in the
proper light before the people of Lex
ington and Kentucky.
"a Leader reporter Yesterday after
noon visited the camp of the LIST Ter
rtorial regiment and met Col. MyrOn
H McCord. 4 most affable gentleman
who pleasantly related al that oc-
crrred during the exciting times of
Monday night in which his men were
alleged to have taken an active nart.
Col. NTcCord was Governor of Arizona
Territory at the breaking ont of the
Spanish war. and resigned that posi-
ton to 90 into the army. fully expect
ing that his regiment would he among
the first of the volunteers TO he sent
to Cuba He said that on Monday
night few of his men were ont of camp
after dark. and that the usual Quietude
existed in all the companies at the
time the riot occurred at the railroad
station. which is several hundred
yards from where the regiment is To-
c4fnd OF C1nO Hamilton
1.-The relations existing between the
members of the Twelfth New Yorkand
the Territorial regiments are most
pleasant. but that does not imply that
they would Join in and violate themil-
itary as well as the civil law. The
men comprising The Territorial regi-
ment are as Il general rule intelligent
and picked of the very best material in
the western country. and they would
not engage in anything which would
cast discredit upon the commanding
officers as well as themselves. Col
NcCOrd is soldier who knows what
to do and when to do it, and commands
the greatest respect of all the men of
the regiment, and they would not be
guilty of committing breach of dis
cipline which would cause Il word of
censure to he expressed against them.
ION Monday Capt. Roy V. Hoffman
was officer of the day. and he said to
the reporter that on Monday afternoon
rs is the custom after pay day. every
man in each company was searched
for weapons. not in expectancy of any
trouble. but as a safeguard to prevent
any difficulty between the men should
they go into the city. In the thorough
search made only five weapons We're
found in possession of the men of the
entire regiment. Capt. Hoffman was
in a position TO know if any Of the men
in his command We're involved in any
and is proud 10 say that in
al the camp things We're as quiet as
usual and cannot imagine how the re-
port was started that the Territorial
boys were joined with the Twelfth
New York in overriding the military
authorities
Capt. Robt. L. Lowry was officer of
the day yesterday, and he made the
statement that the men of the regi-
ment were conducting themselves in
their usual good order and were not
the rioters and roughs which it was
attempted TO make them out.
The reporter paid visit TO the men
IN their company streets during the
afternoon and found them all to be
pleasant and affable. They deeply re
Trcl TED that STATEMENTS mad been made
which set them in a bad light. not
)nly before the good people of Ken
lucky. but their home section, and
'nXiOuSly asked to have the erroneous
'ep0rts corrected. They all said that
he citizens of Lexington and Ken /
lucky had shown them true Kentucky
hospitality ever since their arrival .
lere, and that it would seem migrate
III in them to so far forget themselves
Is to act ungentlemanly among their
losts. As TO their taking part in the
f0dng, the men Indignantly deny this,
md say than nearly all the men of the
egiment We're in their quarters Al the
ime of the occurrence. and did not in
my way participate in the disorder.
They are anxious that an investiga-
ion be held and that the world viii
now exactly how they conducted
bemselys during that troublesome
light
Lieut. Gordon L. Finley. of Comp
ny X, whose tent is in the center of
be camp says that the conduct of the
len during Monday evening was such
: to make every officer feel proud of
hem and that no disorder OF any sort
{ Cured among them"
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