The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-27
KNIGHT & JILLSON,
DUNCAN ELLIOTT,S CAREER.
Redeemtng His Vermillion Past By
Good Work I'm the Army.
New York Telegraph.

new 1Ork Telegraph.
On the recommendation of Governor
Roosevelt and Congressman-elect William
Aston Chanler, Duncan Elliott Is nxed Ior
life. or during good behavior, in the regular
pointees as first lieutenant, and has been
assigned TO duty with the Twenty-sixth In
fantry: Elliott tried for commission In
the volunteer service. He was to have been
one of Captain CHAMBERS rough, riding offl-
GERS, and doubtless would have reaped great
glory in such connection had CHAMBERS offer
TO recruit a troop been approved by the gov
eminent. Ii was not and Chanler took his
part in regiment not of his raising:
Barnum Seeley and Karl Decker OF WASH
ington, who gained some Cuban celebrity In
connection with breaking girl out of jail.
went on the staff of General Lacret, fevo-
lutionary commander in Cuba. They were
also with Captain Thompson-call him
na%eof the regular army Who had Charge
of vagrant company of negroes In the
United States service.
ing service His command was one of the
most remarkable of the war, and IL Is q
fact that before Thompson joined Lacret he
had performed more valorous deeds and
committed more Spanish slaughter than
was done by the entire combination OF he
roes at San Juan. When they crossed with
Thompson the three American members OK
LacreI's staff went with him as volunteers.
There more business with Thompson,
as he and his negroes were out for record
and did not carry their hammocks with
them, as was the practice of the Cubans-
The Cubans are much fonder of swinging
four feet above the ground between two
trees than they are of seeking trouble.
At one OF the towns captured by Thomp-
son the garrison attempted to put up .
fight after they had surrendered. There
was good store of pineapple rum In the
town, which news had gained circulation
with Thompson's men, and the fight of the
garrison did not last long. Being short of a
flag, the American commander evinced his
right of possession TO the city by hauling
down the Spanish flag and running up an
ar Ell "a
army trousers. Other deeds ot valor did
this fighting regular man perform, being
much assisted and countenanced in the
same by Decker, Elliott and Seeley.
Elliott was taken sick I'm the middle or
of the captured villages with some native
nurses He recovered his health sufficiently
to rejoin Lacret. So ably did Captain
Thompson conquer Cuba that there was
he was to figure as defendant on account OF
complaints to the effect that his men did
not properly regard the property rights or
the Spaniards or native islanders.
was that they were following Sherman's
example and regarded the surrounding
country as the base of supplies. Elliott
was present at three or four fights which
did not reach the dignity OF battle. but
skirmishes. He slept with danger for four
months. and no one will grudge him his
shoulder straps.
The story OF Duncan Elliott's highly fres-
coed past does not require retelling. His do
Miss Sallie Hargous, and the divorce pro-
ceedings which resulted are still fresh In
everybody's mind. Elliott declared before
enlisting for the Cuban war that his pur-
he did not lack manhood. He has SUFFICIENT
ly established that proposition.