The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-06
They Searched Augusta for Saloon
Keeper HadIey.
PROVOST ARRESTED SIXTY.
RingIeadGrS in Irons and Court
maTlidlS to Follow.

Augusta. Ca, Feb. 5.-This has been q
day of excitement at Camp Mackenzie ana
in Augusta.
The killing of Private o'Connen, Com-
pany f. Fifteenth Minnesota, by Saloon
keeper Hadley Saturday night caused
great excitement and indignation in the
Minnesota regiment when the news reached
the camp.
Tho officers counselled quiet and order
on the part OF the men, and when their
mutterngs and their threats grew In vol
ume, ordered the soldiers to their tents. Al
number OF them ran through the sentry
lines, but were finally induced to return,
and the guard was doubled The night
passed without further disturbance.
This morning when the story of the kill
ing was read In the papers. the threats OF
vengeance grew in earnestness and the
consultations between knots of soldiers
showed that trouble was brewing.
NAL Bandholz of the Thirty-hfth Michl-
gan Regiment, who is provost marshal was
on the alert, and had already notified the
six troops Of regular cavalry to be ready
at a moments notice 10 respond to hurry
orders, and also had a large body of his
provost guard on duty near the camp
Stole the Cartridges.
The enlisted men i'm the Minnesota regi-
ment had no cartridges and those who en-
gagged in the effort to lynch Hadley bur-
glarized the regiment quartermaster's
headquarters and with pick axes broka
open ammunition cases.
AS quietly as possible they armed them
selves and doube-qulcked out of camp. IE
was their intention to seize several electric
cars and thus reach the city ahead of
pursuit but this part of thoir plan failed.
While the crowd was gathering Col.
Leonhauser of the Fifteenth made every
effort possible 10 pacify the men, but to
no avail. They were determined. Th0
news spread like a prairie fire over tho
camp and as soon as It reached the ears
of Gen. Sumner. the commander OF the
First Division, he ordered out the Third
Cavalry and the Tenth Ohio and Thirty
Fifth Michigan Regiments
They Were After HadIey.
No one knows precisely what was the in
tenton of the men who armed themselves
and left their camp. 1t Is said that they
intended 10 so to the house of Hadley and
destroy his property. Then IL Is said that
thinking Hadley In jail here and about to
be sent away to a place of safety, they
would have attacked the Jan, captured
Hadley themselves marched him out to
the camp and shot him on the parade
ground. riddllng hts body with bullets.
But the would-be lynchers had not got-
ten far before the whole camp was astir
and armed men were hurrying In pursuit.
The men were deployed as skrmishers and
the woods In the vicinity Of the camp were
secured thoroughly.
Each Had sixty Rounds.
It was some time before any of the men
who were breaking away coufd be found,
but gradually they were come upon and
troops A, under command of Lieut.. Haw-
kins, captured the entire lot, about sixty
men, each with sixty rounds of ammuni-
ton. They were In the woods in the rear
Of the First Division headquarters, and
put under guard.
Not knowing what other confederates
they had among soldiers already in the
city Gen. Sumner issued orders that all
passes issued should be confscated and
no more be issued. Accordingly a strong
provost guard was put on every car and
the men were taken back to the camp as
fast as arrested.
The troop of cavalry and a company
from the Thrty-ffth Michigan were hur-
ried to the city with Instructions 20 return
every soldier to camp. and the first that
was known of the excitement in town was
when the troopers galloped In spattered
with mud from head to foot and began ar
resting soldiers. Guards were strung
across every street and every soldier that
came along was deprived OF his pass and
sent back TO camp.
Hadley's store Guarded.
The greatest excitement was in West
End, because It was thought that Had
ley's place was the objective point OF the
soldiers who had broken camp.
For an hour and a half after the alarm
was given. Capt. Leonard OF the provost
guard with a corporal and three men were
the sole guard at Hadleys store where
they had stationed themselves Saturday
night They were in a ticklish position ana
appreciated It, but they never fiinched.
At one time an officer galloped down
Broad street and informed Capt. Leonard
that a large body of men We're massing to
attack the store. The captain telephoned
for assistance TO the provost at the arm
ory. but il did not reach him for some time.
Meanwhile he ordered his men to fin their
magazines and drew his pistol and waited.
expecting each moment to see the van