Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-24
A SENSATIONAL
 STORY.
MAJOR ROCKEFELLER SAID TO HAVE DESERTED THE ARMY ON DlS- COVERING THAT HE HAD
 SLAIN HIS OWN SON.
Reads More Like a Piece of Fiction Than Like truth and Has an lm-
 probable Sound.

4 special dispatch to the Chronicle from New York contains a very sensa- tional and highly improbable story concerning Captain Rockefeller, well known in Prescott.
 Major Rockefeller was in charge of picket lines in the Philippines on the night of April 2s, 1899, when he disappeared and so far as known has never been heard from since. until the appearance of this yarn" which is as follows:
 "A special to the Journal from Col umbus, O., says: According to let ter just received by his brother-in-law, Terrace Reagan of Milwaukee, Major Charles \. Rockefeller of the Ninth Infantry is in Santa Barbara, Hondu- ras, and will remain there. Major Rockefeller deserted soon after a fierce engagement near San Benoir. The FilipinOs were led by hand some young white man. who fought like hero and led his men right up to the American lines. Major Rocke- feller shot the Filipino leader dead. The dead leader proved to be a son of the Major. who had been kidnapped
 "The child was two years old when stolen. The Rockefellers were living at the International hotel in Hong Kong. ana a Chinese nurse cared for the boy. The lieutenant had arranged to visit his home in Co., lumbus. Two days before the date set for the sailing the Chinese and the baby disappeared. Hong Kong was searched. Large rewards were of fered. but no trace of the nurse or child could be found. The lieutenant and his wife were compelled to return to the United States without the little one. Mrs. Rockefeller died soon after her arrival in San Francisco, and the grief stricken father rejoined his regi- ment.
 He saw service with the Ninth in Indian wars and in Cuba, and when his regiment was ordered to the Phil ippines in the spring of 1899 he went along. He was then captain, and was known throughout the army as a particularly daring soldier. Soon af ter his arrival at Manila he was made major and transferred to the Sixth in fantry. Major Rockefeller directed that the body of the Filipino leader he had killed be searched, and papers found revealed that he was Paul Stanhope of Hong Kong. A diary written in English and giving details of the business career of the young fellow was found in his blouse.
 "A month after the engagement Rockefeller received a letter from Hong Kong in response to the one he had written nearly year before. The letter was from the American consul and recited that in 1879 a white boy had been placed in the Jesuit college in Hong Kong by a Chinese woman, who said he was 9 years old and that his name was Paul Yen. The name of the Chinese woman who had nursed the Rockefeller baby was Yen.
 "In 1881 the boy was adopted by an English merchant ih Hong Kong of the name of Henry Stanhope. He gave the boy his name and reared him well. The young fellow was well known in Hong Kong as Paul Stan hope. He was of an adventurous disposition, and some two years ago joined Aguinaldo's army. It was this young man that Major Rockefeller shot and killed in an engagement with the FilipinOs.
 When Major Rockefeller read the letter that had been chasing him around the world for nearly a year he realized that he had slain his own son. He dropped out of sight as mysteriously as the baby had dropped out of sight in Hong Kong