The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-27
UTAH MEN IN REVOLT
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Whole Cavalry Troop On Verge of
Mutiny.
CRUELTY AT PRESIDE
ALBERT NELSON EXPLAINS
WHY HE DESERTED.
Says Men Were Subjected to Harsh
Treatment By the Sergeant In
Command-Majority of the Troop
sers Were From Utah-De Shazo
Lives at Kaysville.

Albert Nelson,- the Salt Lake boy
who got as far as San Francisco, and
who, with seven others, deserted on
Sept. II from the cavalry, was caught
Monday and placed in the guardhouse
at Fort Douglass There he will remain
until taken to the Preside at San Fran
cisco, where he will be courtmartialed.
Two other Salt Lake boys are de-
serters and they are in greater demand
than was Nelson. One of these men,
vile, and the other, Heber Elkins, was
born in Salt Lake. They left the Pre-
sidio with Nelson on the morning of
Sept. II.
Mutiny In Camp.
According to the story told by Nelson
yesterday in his cell at the post guard
house, a whole company of LOG men
came very near DESERVING. He said that
had they been kept at the Preside four
days longer they would likely have
walked out of camp in a body. But the
trouble had not reached the acute stage
when the regiment left for Manila on
Sept. Is.
THE boys might have left at any
time" said Nelson, with tears in his
eyes, at the guardhouse yesterday.
There were 100 of us, mostly from
Utah, and We were treated like dogs
by the sergeant who was detailed from
the regular army to. drill u.s. Had the
company remained in camp four days
longer every man in it, l think, would
have deserted. They had been talking
about it for some time, though no such
thing as a meeting had been held. They
were mad because of the meanneSs OF
this sergeant and heard many of
them say that they would leave. It's
good thing they were sent away to
Manila on the 18th, or there wouldn't
have been any one of the company to
go to the Philippines.
Harsh Treatment.
1.-THE sergeant made me go on guard
six times in one week, night and day,
and then he made me work during the
daytime, so that didn't have a chance
to sleep. He treated many of the other
boys in the same way. He kept us
dirt and doing work of that
kind Just to have us doing something.
He used to come in our quarters in the
morning and yell at us, calling US all
kinds of names. We got tired of it, and
left
Nelson maintained that he was not in
the fight in which this sergeant was
hammered to pieces ten days ago. He
declared that he knew nothing about it.
Nelson said that De Shazo had gone
to his father-in-law's farm four miles
below Murray, but as a matter of fact
the farm is near Kaysville. He con-
fessed that he and De Shazo were but |
10 years old, and they had on their en-
listment on Aug. rs claimed to be q. |
This makes them liable for fraudulent |
and they may be impris- |
Oned. !
According to the articles of war, a /
leserter caught within ten days may |
De held for mere absence from duty. /
Nelson having been caught within that
lime will not be severely punished. But t
1nless Ellxins and De Shazo appear by !
.oday at 10 a. M. when their ten DAYS :
will have expired, they may be SEN
enced to be shot ''or receive such other
as the courtmartial may
lirect." [