The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-24


 Ono Caso Cited Which Cost the Lifo oi
 Priest Who Would Not Toll Where
 Insurgent Gold Was Buried.
 Lynn, Mass, April 23.-Two Lynr men who were formerly members ot Company D, Twenty sixth regiment. U S. w., and stationed in the Philippines have sent to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge a statement of instances of the application of the water cure in the Philippines that came under their ob- servation. Senator Lodge informed them that the matter will be laid be- fore the proper authorities. These men are Privates William Labelle and AL bert w. Bertrand, the latter having been clerk of Company D and regimen tai clerk at headquarters while the TWenty-sixth regiment was stationed at Panay.
 In his statement to Senator Lodge, Labelle says he personally saw several instances of the application of the wa ter cure. He says that while at Anilao three natives were taken by Company D men into Catholic church and given the water cure. Labelle says it was un- derstood the natives knew where insur- gent guns were concealed.
 Labelle says one of the natives refus- ed to tell where the guns were secreted and after he had been given the water cure he was blindfolded and one of the soldiers fired his gun near the mans head. The same instant the gun was fired another member of the squad hit the native with stone and he was told that he had been shot. The native then told the United States soldiers where they could find the guns. In relating this incident Labelle gives the names of the officers and privates who partici- pated.
 Continuing his statement, Labelle says that in the summer of 1900 while the United States forces were about three miles from Estancia. Company D captured three natives and gave them the water cure. After the men had been filled with water blood came from their eyes and ears
 Bertrand has furni he'd Sen tor l odge with particulars of the alleged d'sap-
  inc, Catholic priest, at Bnlo. MT. Ber- trand says it was reported that Father Augustine knew where ii.surgent gold was buried and the men were anxious to have him tell them were it could be found. Bertrand says men from Company D captured him in December, 1900, and dressed him in a. uniform of the United States artillery He was than taken to Banate and kept in well He refused to ell where the gold was buried, and on the night of Decem- Der g he was taken to a house formerly occupied by the presidente of the vil lage. Upon his arrival at the house, MT. Bertrand says the water cure was given him by the water cure squad" The men then proceeded to get nearly all the water out of him, but he did not revive. The men then became frighten ed and a surgeon was sent for. His services proved unsuccessful and Der trand says that the priest died.
 Some of the men were sworn to se- crecy and the body was buried in plot of land used by the troops as a base ball ground. Bertrand says that non- commissioned officer was seen with the priests watch and chain, and when commissioned officer learned this they were turned over to himS In his state ment Bertrand gives the names of the 1 men taking part, and also refers to sev- eral officers. According to Labelle, when Company D was out on hike while stationed at | Dungas, in July, 1900 the men were or dered to burn everything and see that | no grown nerson escaned T,ahe1la saws | that is what the men proceeded to do.
 Labelle and Bertrand say that while | at Dungas the soldiers came to a hut ! where native woman had just given | birth to child. The husband was made | a prisoner and the woman and child | were dragged from the hut and left on the ground. The native shack was then burned, but Labele and Bertrand do not know what became of the wo- man and child.