The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-04
CAPTAIN CRAWFoRD's CASE.
Story of Love Affair That Prevented
His Getting a Commission.
New York World1

NNGW IOIh w orlu-y
For conduct unbecoming an officer and
a gentleman" Captain William P Craw-
/ ford of the United States volunteers, has
| been refused by President Roosevelt and
Secretary of War Root his commission as
lieutenant in the regular army, 20
/ which his military superiors warmly
recommended him.
This case is unique in the military his
| tory of the country.
Because he broke faith with the woman
ne mad promised to marry, the path TO
military distinction-to an honorable
4 career in the service of his country upon
which he had so promisingly entered-is
| forever closed to him. Crawford, says
I the secretary of war, played an unworthy
part toward the woman that loved him
/ therefore ne is unworthy to wear an Off
GERS uniform.
If YOU have never known that presi-
/ dents and cabinet officers gave up weeks
10 the consideration of the love affairs
Of would-be lieutenants study the fol-
/ lowing curious and instructive history Of
Z Captain Crawford. who. because he would
not wed Miss Rebeeca Douglass when he
when he would.
But in spite OF the publicity the affair
( has gained the reason for the CAPTAINS
strange action is not even suspected.
1t is told in South Carolina that Craw-
lord military career began. as it ended
. in love affair Some years ago it is
said. the young man was engaged to a
beautiful girl. She Tilted him and mar
ried another man.
Enbittered by this exDerience Craur-
ford tried to divert mis- mind by assuming
the ediJorship of a lOcal paper He short
( " tired of this. however. and decided to
/ enter the army. 1t was arranged that he
should so to Cuba.
He was utterly desperate. He told his
( friends that Cuba might bring him death
or It might bring him distinctiOn-he
cared nothing And he buckled on his
sword with q fine air OF Indifference
Cuba brought him little opportunity
But II gave him a taste for war He re
turned with the determination to go to
the Philippines.
The day before he left for the east.
however he met for the first time the
woman who was to have so strange an
{ influence in the ordering of his fate
[. This was Miss Rebecca Douglass. a
charming and cultivated young woman.
/ in whose presence Crawford forgot the
disasters that had previously befauen
( his heart and fen precipitately in love
= feel as IL had known you always
NJ said to Miss Douglass with a deep
, sigh.
She smiled enccuragingly.
Flndeet- protested the impetuous lover
I If ] had known YOU years ! could no.
I ISye YOU more VII you marry me?
Now Crawford. as even Secretary Root
VIII tell you. has the most winning face
the most persuasive manner in the wor.A
And Miss Douglass promised
8 . s.
The next dav he was OF for the Philip
pines with Re5ecca Douglass picture
next his heart
IS for Miss Douglass. she took up her
profession OF trained nurse with a light
heartedness she had never known before
Crawford fought bravely in the Philip
pine.
1T is the thought of your love. your
pride in me, that has helped me- he
wrote 10 his fiancee. Nor did his brave
deeds pass unnOticed.
That boy will make a soldier said his
supeTiors. Some day he'll be heard
from.
And. indeed, when Captain Crawford
came back TO the United States ne bore
as many h0nOrs as a man in MS position
could have Won No wonder that ne saw
fame shining ahead
It was at Raleigh. n c.. that the young
man found his betrOthed still engaged
in nursing
Il cannot have you give up your time
70 caring for other people now" ne said
Il shall need sou- Give up your work
come back TO C}testez. and as soon as
get my commission W. TSiii he nnarrfaS-'-