The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-09-02
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enough, but not nearly so terrible in
its Significant or consequence as the
Generalization of the officers who
could pass such an inadequate SEN
tence They might as well have muir
derd native men themselves for de-
Tending the persons of native women
from the most horrible of outrages.
There are other cases which show
that orders against looting are not
sustained by public sentiment among
the officers. Sc p. 2117.
/ will mention but two cases more
in which while justice was done, the
reports of such deliberate and devil
ish cruelty must inevitably have
spread far and wide, and fired many
a Filipino heart Gust as these earli-
er outrages on their women must
have done) to take dire revenge
whenever opportunity offered:
Harry Cline, who was employed as
teamster, rode out into the coln-
try some three miles on a bicycle,
where he saw four small native boys
gathering grass. With no other APP
parent motive than natural deprav
ity, he proceeded to shoot these boys
with his revolver, severely wounding
three and killing the fourth" He
was hanged at Manila on the goth of
last September.
In regard to the murder of a Filipi-
no woman, after an attempt upon her
chastity, by julius Arnold, musician
of the Twenty fifth Infantry who was
sentenced to Imprisonment for life,
the reviewing authority remarked
p. 2114
The evidence set forth in the. re-
cord shows that the accused murder,
ed and killed native woman at Mag
alang, P. l., January Is, 1900. The
testimony fails to show any just eX-
cuse for his action, or anything that
would serve as basis for mitigation,
although during the trial he was de-
Tended by able counsel.
"The murdered woman was vir-
tuous married woman, and after Of
/ fering her the grossest insult that
man can offer a chaste woman, he
killed her, and by his vile act left a
nursing infant motherless, when his
plain duty, as shown by the honor
able uniform he wore, required him
| to protect his victim.
I'm the opinion of the reviewing
authority, the sentence should have
| been death, and the court manifest
ed undeserved leniency Subject TO
the above remarks, the sentence is
approved and will be duly executed"
These, as / have said, are but
| few of hundreds of similar crimes
committed by our soldiers in the
Philippines, attested by the records
of courts martial, and, in many cases,
SO inadequately punished as to justi-
fly the structures which we have cited
from the reviewing authorities.
A long list of outrages of similar
kinds, committed, on single occa.
sion, by the savage Macabebes whom
we have armed against our Christian
subjects" in the Philippines, is print
ed on PIP. 1750-1765 OF the same re.
cord, with the evidence and the re,
port of the inspector-general major
McKenna), who was ordered to make
an investigation on the spot. Further
reference to these atrocities would be
| justified by the comments made upon
Major McKenna's report by Generals
Macarthur and Wheaton, on account
of employing such auXiliaries and on
the utter inadequacy of our own
forces, and the real condition of af,
fairs, from military point of view
| I'm the archinelapo Rut tha nurnora