The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-20
MAD RIDE Of 4 BATTERY
HURRIED ACROSS IMPASSABLE
FIELD.
Incidents in Connection With the Shoot
ing in the Philippines of Lieutenant
Lloyd by Lieutenant Howell.

The Manila Times publishes the fol-
lowing detailed account of the shooting
of Lieutenant Lloyd by Lieutenant
Howell in the Philippines, concerning
which brief Associated Press dispatch
was published in the coast papers early
this month. Lieutenant Howell mar
ried Miss Widdifield of Honolulu in Ma
Mia some months ago.
According to this account of the Ma
Mia Times the incidents i'm connection
with the matter must have been as ex-
citing and bizarre as those of the not
dissimilar event in Honolulu three years
ago when Lieutenant Merriam declared
martial law one night and proceeded
to enforce il.
The Manila Times account is as fol-
lows:
SO many versions of the Camp Stot-
senburg affair have been in circulation
that yesterday a Manila Times rep
resentative visited the scene of the fra
cas- and Deposito headquarters in or
der to get the facts of the case 1t
was found that Lieutenant Lloyd was
wounded in a scuffle with Lieutenant
Howell, in his tent, and not during his
wild ride across country.
Lieutenant Howell was battery COM
mander and had begun a continuous
spree on Sunday night. On Monday
night he came from his quarters firing
his revolver and ordered the musician
to sound the call to arms. After a
number of rounds had been fired, and
his ability to command demonstrated
TO his own satisfaction, the battery re-
turned to quarters. Lieutenant How
ell returned to the bottle, and by noon
was on the high road to delirium ire
mems.
Lieutenant Lloyd is on special duty
with the battery, and on the day in
question began to drink with Howell
An alteration arose and Howell chal-
lenged Lloyd to a duel The revolvers
We're produced at once, but a dim
glimmering of reason must have come
to them, for instead of standing at
the allotted ten PAGES and firing they
began to scufflle. During the progress
of the dispute Howells revolver was
discharged, and the bullet passed along
the left side of Lloyd's temple and
through his ear.
Lieutenant Howell was then sliced
with the mad desire to go into bat
tie. Instead of retreat" he ordered
boots and saddles" to be blown, and
then began the maddest race of a bat
terry across country that has ever oc-
CURED since the days of Lawton. The
country Immediately around the camp
is broken by rice dykes and full Of
dried-up wells. a ditch about three
feet deep, with perpendicular sides,
was in the course of the battery as it
dashed at a gallop over this rough
piece of country. When the caisson,
on which Private Ross was seated,
jolted down into one of these bitches
he was knocked off, and when later
picked up he was found to have sus-
tanned many injuries, not the least of
which is a serious rupture AS the
gun carriages and caissons passed this
spot men were thrown from their seats
and severely bruised and lacerated.
Ten of the battery are in no condition
to do duty as a result of that ride.
The rice dykes at this place are in
some places three feet high, and if it
were not for the self-evident marks
and torn-dOwn dykes, it would seem
impossible that battery could have
been taken through there, even at
walk.
During the course of this pleasant
exercise the men complained and fired
shots i'm the air from their revolvers,
following the example of their COM
mander.
After the horses had been attended
to, assembly was sounded and the
men fell in to listen while their bat
terry commander told them what he
thought of them. He told them that
they We're dirty ours" who were una
HE to find work at home, and had
enlisted for the $3.50 per month"
that they received. They had enlisted
on account of their patriotism and be-
cause the United States needed them.
Affairs We're about to reach a climax
when another brilliant idea flashed
across his befuddled brain. He would
disarm the battery and also the
guards. This was soon done, and then