The evening times., 1900-01-16

i AhN OH Military AUEATS OF INT
Senate, reported favorably bills for the
relief OF Richard King and Louis Miller
The bill for the relief of Richard King
provides for the payment to him of the
sum of $1,000. as compensation in full for
/ expenses incurred and permanent injuries
sustained by reason of being shot by the
carelessness and neglect OF a soldier of the
! United States Army.
King was shot by a soldier of Troop f,
! Ninth Cavalry, while that troop was en-
route from Rawlins, Wyo., TO Fort Du
Chesne. Utah, on June Z. 1894. On that
! day King was herding his sheep about
/ twenty-five miles southwest of Baggs,
Wyo., and about three-quarters of a mile
of from the Thornburg Road. Between
9 and 10 O'Clock a. m he was shot through
the body and fell on his face. Upon rails
ing himself he was able to see two men
with horses who seemed to him to be going
away from him. He motioned to the men
and one of them proved 10 be colored
soldier and when asked why he shot King
said he thought he was an antelope
Both men left, one ostensibly to find the
surgeon and the other TO find Kings wife,
who was in camp about three quarters of
a mile away. Alter waiting some time he
crawled toward his camp. and upon arri-
val found the soldier had not made his ap
pearance. Unon examination afterward as
is shown by official reports. the man failed
TO find the camp of King and fearing that
King would die had not reported the acci-
dent 10 his command.
During the afternoon the hospital stew
ard Of the command came TO Kings camp.
having been ordered to do SO when notice
OF the shooting was given 10 the command
by the second soldier. His report tu tns
military authorities sets forth the serious
nature Of the wounds and corresponds in its
material features with the affidavit of DIR.
W. :. Bennett. who afterward attended
King. King suffered for long time. in
CURED over $500 expenditure for medical
services. his only property herd of sheep
of some 20O0 head We're badly scattered
and never recovered. and he sustains from
all the evidence a lifelong injury. which
viii forever prohibit him from active Ia
Dor The affidavit of Dr. Bennett, says.
He will live but can never be strong,
able bodied man" He further states that
in Two cases out of three such a gunshot
wound would result fatally.
In the case OF Louis Miller. the commit
zee finds that the records show that he
was enrolled June Il 1861, and mustered
into service July >. 1861. as private in
Company Z. Anderson Zouaves, subse-
quently known as Company l. SiXty-secoad
New York Infantry Volunteers. TO serve
three years. He was present with his
company until April 30, 1862.
The medical records show that nc was
admitted to general hospital. corner of
Broadway and Chestnut Street, Philadel-
phia. Pa. May q. 1862. with confusion;
that he was furloughed August ., 1862, and
deserted August T. 1862. He did not Ie-
turn TO hospital or 10 his company, which
remained in the service until August 80,
1865. and it does not appear that his dis
charge from the service prior to the ex-
piration Of his term of enlistment was in
tended by the military authorities.
Applying for removal of the charge of
desertion and for an honorable discharge,
Louis Miller testified April H. 1897, as
fellows:
Il was taken sick while in the field be- |
fore Yorktown on or about May /. 1862 /
and was sent TO the United States hospital. /
corner Broad and Cherry Street. Philadel- /.
pha Pa. where | remained under the doc 1
tors care until about June l. 1862, when /
! was informed by the nurse. TO the best /
of my understanding and belief that l /
could go home at the same time handing I
me a paper which ! firmly believed was my
all my pay from the United States All /
this time | was unable to read the English /
lar gusge. and all of my clothing and pa
pers were destroyed by fire in Eldridge ;
Street during September, 1862, while l was
still in the hospital i'm New York sick
with lung trouble and rheumatism, re-
sulting from my service in the army.
From the winter of 1928. and until the
spring OF 1865. | was employed in the city
Df New York at my trade of matchmaker.
lived at the corner of Eldridge and Grand
Streets. and afterward at IS Amity Street
until 1865. when | came West
During ali this time | was living
lmong my friends, who knew that | had
,een IN the army. and | saw and conversed
With some of my comrades of the regi-
nent when they came back to New York
n 1864 l never knew that | was reported
IS a deserter: no one ever notified me. |
ived all this time in New York. where |
lad li-ed before | enlisted in the army.
had no reason or cause to desert from
he army. but / fully believed that I had
een discharged Had I known that l was
eported as a deserter / should have re-
urned TO serve my time out"