The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-20
CRUELTIES IN PHILIPPINES
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men were invited from lloilO. "They were" he said, "above the average--not
 peasant women.''
 Among those present were Captain Mcdonald, Lieutenant Hummer (cor- recD of Co. M, and Major Cook. The witness said these officers became in- | toxicated and while in that condition threw off all their clothes except their undershirts and their trousers, and, catching the women about the waists insisted on their waltzing with them, much to the disgust of the women. Further questioning brought out the fact that OBrien was not on good terms with Captain McDonald. This was due, he said, to the fact that Me- Donald had failed to issue the rations due his men. He believed, though he had no proof, that the officer had sold the rations which should have been is- sued to the men.
 He said they had meat only twice week and bread only twice during the entire eighteen months of his stay in the Philippines.
 He went on to say that there was price on the captains head offered by the insurgents because of the officers cruelties Witness had seen him strike Filipino prisoner over the head with a revolver and said that the water cure was administered to the same prisoner after he had taken the oath of alleg- lance.
 OBrien then related the particulars of the capture of the town To Nag in the province of Fanny by a detachment from a company of which he was a member As the troops approached the town, they saw at distance a native boy on a caraboo and one of the men fired a short at him but as his bullet failed to hit it's object others also fired, himself included. Af first, the witness said, he had fired in obedience to orders and then said that there ha been no orers to fire. T can't tell why fred" he added, when pressed: "all fred"
 "This shooting" he proceeded, Drought the people to their doors, and among those who came out was an old man who was shot in the abdomen and afterwards died. Later. while the fir- ing was In progress, two other old men between the ages of fifty and seventy, should say, came out toward us hand in hand bearing white flag Both were shot down and the sergeant reported ! " 9NoPlulIl NhCI)Oiidlu tIldL Ilt Ildu Kill ed two more "niggers." Another case was that of a woman and two children, one in her arms, who were killed and then burned u2 in their house.
 O'Brien said that when the company was out marching single file at night in the mountains the order came back along the line to take no prisoners, but he did not know who issued the order In case there was fighting the natives either fled or were killed.
 { The witness also told of the execu- tion of the bandit, Pedro Gargamo, at the town of Guimal, for which, he said, Mcdonald was tried by courtmartial. He said 1t was common talk that be- fore Gargamo was killed he was struck on the back of the head with bolo.
 The witness said it was an 'unwrit- | ten law out there to take no prison CTS"
 He said: "Dum- dunn bullets were is- s1nHd#in the regular way with other am- fiIunfl ion He lcd seen them strike a l man and take the top of his head off. He could not tell whether it was one l of his own comrades or a native. He | was questioned closely by Senator Bev  bullets. He had not written home | about those bullets, although he con- sidered the use of them revolting.
 Answering questions as to the burn- | ing of a woman and two children, he | said, the woman was in bamboo | shack and appeared at the door or the | window No effort was made to rescue | her. because it would have been inn possible, although she came to the door | while the shack was burning $ He spoke of some articles that he | had written for the papers, but said he | wanted it understood that he was not | under oath when he wrote them. In | answer to Senator McComas, he said | that his company occasionally took prisoners that were not killed. He | had seen many prisoners held by other companies and they were all being | treated kindly and were not being shot or killed He admitted that the killing | of prisoners was not general. The kill ing of prisoners was a matter that lay | with the officers"
 Answering Senator Deitrich he said | that his command usually treated the Filipinos kindly. He said his captain was known as a "nigger hater. lie (O'Brien) had never received orders from his company to kill prisoners. Replying to Senator Patterson, he said the explosive bullets did not have the stamp upon them. He ex- pecte to receive some of these bullets tomorrow when he will continue HIS testimony.