The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-25
TWO WILL BE HANGED.
General Chafee Reports on
Philippine COuTtmartiaI--
Battle Fought.

Washington, Dec 24-The war de-
partment has received from the Phil
tppines the records Of oourt-martial by
which three natives were tried for i'm
plication in the murder OF five Ameri-
can prisoners. One of the Filipinos was
Tomoteo Dahlan. a cOmmandant of the
insurgent 0orces, who ordered Manuel
Gonzales, a lieutenant of insurgents, to
Kill the presidente OF the pueblo of San
.diegue. Mayo, province Of Balucan.
Gonzales. in command of a band of in
surgents. successfully ambushed a de
tachment Of the Thirty-ffth volunteer
infantry taking I'VE Of the American
soldiers prisoners. The Americans had
been acting as a guard for the presi-
dente and he, too, passed into the
hands of the insurgents The Ameri-
cans captured were afterwards killed.
They are Privates John Hickman. COM
pany B; William Smith. company @;
Hamlet Jarvis. company c; Elmer
Dane, company Z, and Frank H. VIII
son, company z. The presidente was
stabbed. The Americans were placed
in charge of a sergeant, taken away
and killed with bolos.
There was an arrangement on the
A
sponsibility. 1t was developed that
Commandment Dahlan in ordering the
ambuscade, gave the following direc-
tons TO Lieutenant Gonzales: ''Sepa-
rate Jose DUencaminO (the presidente)
from the Americans and with these
Americans do as if you we're to take
them to the generals but when you
reach the sail grass do with them what
we are accustomed to 20" He finished
his directions for The murders with
these words: you will receive five
pesos. for the soldiers. God keep your
life many years"
In passing upon the findings in the
case of the insurgent cOmmandante,
General Chaffee said:
His open appeal to the base in
stincts of his soldiers by promising re-
ward for the execution of his inhuman
command aggravates his Ohense and
marks the accused Is one so lost to the
better instincts of his race as to pre-
clude at once appeal to clemency.''
In Dahlan's case and that of Con
zaies. General Chaffee approved the
sentence of death by hanging, imposed
by the military commission. In that
of ,Clemente Del Cruz the sergeant
who directed the murdsr of the Ameri-
cans, he committed the death sentence
to Imprisonment for life at hard labor
Manila. Dec. 24.-Civil Governor Taft
left here this afternoon for San Fran
cisco on board the transport Grant.
There was a popular demonstration on
his departure.
Governor Taft told his associates that
he was pleased with the progress Of
events in the Philippines and exceed
ingly glad that General Chaffee had
expressed the opinion that he could
quel the instruction, except on the
island of Samar. bv next February.
The health of the governor is much
improved.
The Filipino general Samson and all
the other insurgent chiefs on the is
land of BOhOl have surrendered with
twerty -eight cannon and forty-fiye
gun.
During an engagement in Batangas
province between the insurgents and a
detachment of the Twenty-first infan-
try under Lieutenant Edgar T. COnley.
one American private was badly
wounded. A number Of tbs enemy
were killed. A large number of Fill
pinOs captured in Laguna and Batangas
provinces have been sent 10 the re-
established military prison at Subig
bay.