The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-04
Maj Marsh and a Detachment of Soldiers Get
on the Insurgent Leaders Trail and
Get Within Rifle Shot.
A Man Supposed to Have Been the Little
Filipino Shot from Richly Saddled
Horse and Carried off
by Companions

VlGAN, Luzon, June 2. via Manila, June
S.-Maj. Marsh, with his detachment of
the Thirty-third regiment, overlook what
is believed to have been Aguinaldo and
his party, on May 10, at Lagat. 100 miles
north OF Manila. The Americans killed
or wounded an officer supposed to be
Aguinaldo whose body was removed by
mis- followers.
Aguinaldo had 100 men, Maj. Marsh 15O
The American command reached Labuso.
where Aguinaldo had made his headouar-
ters since March 6, on May l. Aguinaldo
had fed seven hours before leaving all
the beaten trails and travelling through
the forest along the banks of streams
Toward evening, May 10, Maj. Marsh
struck Aguinaldo's outpost about a mile
outside of Lagat, killing four Filipinos
and capturing two. From the latter ne
learned that AguinaIdo had been camped
there for the night Although exhausted
and half starved, Maj. Marshs men en-
tered Lagat on the run. They saw the in
surgents scattering into the bushes or
over the plateau. Along the mountain
side near the town twenty-five Filipinos
dressed in white, with their leader on q
gray horse, were seen. The Americans
fired a volley and
SHOT THE OFFICER
from his horse. His followers fled, car
rying the body. The Americans on reach
ing the spot, caught the horse, which was
richly saddled. Blood from badly wound
ed man was on the animal and on the
ground. The saddlebags contained Aguin-
aldo's diary and some private papers and
letters. One of these was addressed ITO
the Civilized Nations" II protested
against the American occupation of the
Philippines. There We're also found cop
les of Senator Beveridge's speech trans
lated into Spanish and entitled The
Death Knell of the Filipino People"
Maj. Marsh believing that the Filipinos
had taken to a river which is tributary
to the Chicao. followed it for two days,
reaching Tiao, where he learned the Fill
ipinos had descended the river on a raft,
with the body of a dead or wounded Off
Ger covered with palm leaves. There
Maj. Marsh reviewed his tired and bruised
officers and men, picked out twenty-four
of the freshest, with whom he secured
the country for six days longer, but with
out finding any trace of the fugitives.
The Americans pushed on and arrived at
Aparri, May 29
The officer shot was either
AGUINALDO OR HIS ADJUTANT,
and, as the horse was richly caparisoned,
1t is fair presumption that it was Ag-
uinaldo
The soldiers of Gen. Young, military
governor OF Northwest Luzon, captured
early last month an insurgent officer with
papers revealing Aguinaldo's where
abouts. eGn. Goung, in order to continue
the pursuit, gave Maj. Marsh an oppor-
tunity to finish the work began in No
vember Maj. Marsh left Candon May l,
hurrying north, while Col Hare, with a
battalion divided into two parties, started
from Rangued, covering the trails west
ward. The garrisons in the Caygan val
ley were disposed in such a way as to
guard the avenues of escape eastward
Spies heralded the approach of Mai.
Marsh with signal fires. On reaching Lab
dan he intercepted a letter from Agun-
aldo, the ink of which had hardly dried,
addressed to an officer Of the Filipino
army, and saying:
There has arrived this morning at La
began hostile column from Boki. 1
have set out with my column. 1 have no
fixed route"
IMPORTANT PAPERS.
The letter was signed "Col. David"
sobriquet. Aguinaldo called at the pre-
sidio where a banquet was held and
speeches made eulegizng Gregorio del
Pho. That night Maj. Marshs men slept
| in the bamboo, resuming the advance in
the morning, and reached Lagat, forty
miles distant. in two days, although ii
was raining in the mountains at the time
Aguinaldo's papers are important They
show he took refuge in Isabella province,
where he remained until he established
himself at Labogan, province of Abra,
where he resolved to direct the rainy sea-
sons operation. Until recently he was
ignorant of outside events, making no
pretense of directing the insurrection,
happy if indeed he might be able to keep
alive among the hostile Igorrotes, who
killed several of his followers.