Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-21
HIS COUNTRY
FOR A WOMAN.
An American Corporal Turns Trai-
tor in the Philippines.
II. II. HAZE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN the .nrb OF n Filipino lieutenant
ne IVES shot Down by ISIS
.ountr, men.

Manila. T.. l.. Feb. 10. is9a.-Dcar
Mother and Faihcr.-iicnry has turned
out to be a thief. a drunknrd and u de-
rcrtcr lie became terrible drinker,
ana ~ well as his captain warned
him. but h. paid no heed. lie got the
best OF me Tor over fio and robbed ov''
everybody else he could. lie started 10
build the box referring 10 a patent re-
frigcfatorl. and gave him the money.
but he made away with It. and found
myself IN debt
hear that Henry was caught and
shot FOR % dcscrtcr. which served him
right l VIII get his personal effects
and Wilt burn hls letters.
Extract from a letter written by
Private Halle ". Ayrrs to his parents
~ Han FranciHcuJ
The above ia. anyH the san Francisco
Chronicle. confirmation % the Manila
story OF the Ucath 81 Corporal Henry
T. Haze. First California volunteer.
the only Uut.und.uut traitor -of the
spanish American war. lie wna riddiod
by American bullets while lighting
against the nag ~ his country. Ills
dead body clad IN the uniform Of a
Filipino lieutenant, was found In "a
Filipino trench by his former comrades
world who muurnn his ioaa-lf. indeed,
there be- that onc-la a Filipino woman
of lll-rcputc.
FROM all the information received
here 10 appears that CORPORAL Haze
became cnnmorci of a disrputnbl- ma
tive woman uf Manila and probably
married her. AZ any rate. hie infatun-
ton was no complete that when the
California troops were embarked At
Manila on January ird last Tor duty
at ilniiu hc deserted. lie WAS member
of Company u nf the Firlt California
regiment, and when u was found that
he was not, aboard the transports a
corpurarr guard was Hont ashore 60
look Tor him. with orders 30 bring him
back ur shoot him down. The search
awaited nothing, ana the expedition
would have departed without him had
Il not been recalled. Later II wun
learned that iinEO had lied from Man
iln In the company ~ the woman with
whom he had become cntangicd. that
hc had Joined Arulnnldn'a army and
Ind begn commissioned ~ an officer
with the Filipino forces IN the field.
That was the last heard ~ the dts
rraccd American until few days ago
his body was found IN "a trench. whore
the rebels had made q stand against
the forces ~ the United stntuH.
For "a time there was some d0ubht
whether Haze was the man who had
brought shame and death 10 himself
hy bic traitoroun conduct, but y,gtor-
day his Identity was established when
the letter from Private Ayers was r..
coiycd horr. Before his enlistment Haze
lived ut Ayers home IN this city. and
he ana young Ayers enlisted az ~.
same time. Ayers going with Company
! and Haze with Company y. of the
First California, Ayers had mot Haze
by chance ON the water front and had
learned that he was out OF work and
was hungry. out Of tho Mndncsa on
hin heart Aycm went homo and Fot
some food FOR Haze. After while
Ayers Induced W. NJ. Talbot 90 allow
Haze 10 sleep IN his carpet beating
works nt 20 Potrrro avenue. Talbot
thought well % Haze and gave him oc-
cnHionai work. Haze became M aud
thun young Ayers took him To- hiH home
ana nurRed him. Aftrrwnrd he He-
cured employment for Haze NJ the place
whcrc he himself WIS working. Haze
worked there for ID while. until ho was
laid on. ana then won't back ~ the
carpet beating works. The work there
made him No again, ana for the second
time Ayers took him 90 HE home. Hn.e
was soon considered fixture In the
Ayers household. Al the members ~
the family liked him, for he seemed Ia
De- sober. honest, industrious fellow,
lie was treated na one ~ the family.
and the parents ~ Ayers were re rcndy
o. do Tor him nn they wefr Tor their
Hun. Whom the war broke out Haze
was anxious 30 enlist. Ito said he be-
llcvcd that every man should oncr hia
llfc Tor his country when the occasion
demanded the sacrifice, The ardor 81
his patriotic talk inspired young Ayers
with "a desire to 60 TO the front, and
biz parents finally consented 10 his en-
liHtmcni Ayers was only - years OF
axe, while Haze was 30. and Air. and
Mrs. Ayers virtually made Haze the
guardian OF their boy. They trusted
him To see that young Ayers ala not
Yield 20 any temptation. and generally
o. look out Tor his welfare.
II was their high regard Tor Haze
that made Mr., and Mrs, Ayers inrredu-
luus Which they first heard ~ the corr
poraln Disgrace. They could not be-
lioyo u % him, for he had always
SEEMED Go them aimoat model man.
But When the letter from young Ayers
came yesterday they were forced % be-.
llevc the story true. and the shame 81
the thing affected them almost ~ much
~ u their own son Ind been the trail
tor.
Now tho Ayers family recall that
Haze was always complaining ~ his
lot after he entered the army His
WAS az the Preside. and every letter he
wrote from Manila was nlled with
complaints, Not 80 with young Ayers.
lic always expressed himself ~ CON
tented with HIS lot, ana was always
ready Tor any duty required OF him.
As evidence ~ this his last letter home
contains tho information that he IL
nurse In the smallpox hospital nj Ma
Mia. The nurses In that hospital are
volunteers, ana there were few NJ the
soldiers who cared To take the Job
Haze had little cause for complaint
on any score, He had not known what
home was for many years before he
was befrionded by young Ayers and his
people, Before Ayers met him Haze
had served Tor few months on the
hnttleship oregon when she waH Inst
commissioned, lie was injured aboard
~ her ana was sent Ia the marine hos
plial and was afterward DISCHARGED