The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-14


shth volunteer infantry sentenced to ten years eaen
ior an attempt at criminal assault Williams sentence was
later made FIVE years
There are large number of such these, and in
several instances the punishment melted ou does not seem 70
he AZ all what should have been The record shows for in
stance that William Higgins of the signal corps did IN
March 1901 violently assault native women with intent
to commit criminal assault aud that he was fined only s45
and ordered confined for three months Arthur Butler ana
Thomas Walsh who participated in this affair were eaeh
fined sax and ordered coniined for FIVE months.
Frank Miller OF company l. Twenty-third infantry ana
BENJAMIN Stanley company 6, Fortyeghth volunteer ntan-
v were both convicted Of criminal assault and sentenced to
death Later the sentences of both changed to dis
honorable discharge forfeiture of pay and allowances and
confinement at hard labor for period of twenty years
Willie Wilson OF company f. Fory-eighth volunteer in
fantry killed native woman in August 1900 He was SEN
fenced to be hanged the president committed his sen
tence to dhonorab discharge forfeiture OF all pay aud
allowances confinement hard labor for thirty years
Charles Hose and Ernest A. ONeil convicted OF
criminal assault committed in May 1901 and each sen
fenced thirty years confinement with dishonoabe dis
charge and forfeiture OF all pay and allowances The con
nement sentences eventually reduced FIVE each
James A. Darling OF company A, Twenyfourth infantry
July 1901 attempted criminal assault the woman being
badly injured For this he dishonoraby discharged his
pay and allowances forfeited and sentence OF twelve years
confinement imposed Subsequently however this sentence
was reduced TO years
In the month and in which the crime just re
ferred committed Roscoe F. GODFREY of company E.
Twelfth infantry assaulted native woman 70 years of age
He discharged only $40 of his pay forfeited
and he was ordered confined for but one month.
Edward NJ Boodie and James F. Caey OF troop C. Third
cavalry murdered native boy in November, The
viewing authority pronounced the crime of these two to
o peculiar aocty that might be viewed with horror
by the debased savage yet they sentenced to
death. but only life Imprisonment
Another murderer John Allen OF company L, Thrty-sec
ond volunteer infantry sentenced only twenty years
Imprisonment.
William Campbell Of company /, Forty fourth volunteer
infantry according the records struck native
while she in delicate condition" etc. He
terced but one years confinement
George w. Chittenden Of company NJ, Sixth infantry,
murdered a native in March 900 lie first sentenced
life imprisonment but subsequently the
doced TO twenty years
William Harvey committed criminal assault on a native
years of and sentenced but years
imprisonment The details of this crime unprintabe
Thomas McCanahan Arthur Smith Clarence Jackson
Isaac Oppcuhemc and Harry A. Mooney all the Eighth
infantry sentenced confinement ranging from seven
to twenty years for criminal assault on uiddc-aged native
woman committed in April 1901 Subsequently two of the
twenty reduced seventeen years
Thus might through the whole list $50 cases
he details Of the various trials given in ull and it is
quite likely that many of the crimes would appear 10 be all
the worse were all the facts connected with them to bS made
known The record particularly prolific OF crimes against
women and private adyices from the islands would to
indicate that many crimes this character have been COM
mttcd and that no punishment has followed
And view Of all these facts of the acknowledgment
by He'll Roarn Jake" Smith the famous kill and burn
order and Of the many instances Of atrocious cnee which
have been brought during the investigations of the Phil
ppine committee. the adminstratonists do not hesitate TO
say that the being magned that are being mis-
represented For its sake the respectable element OF the
army no doubt wishes ta the American public could know
az mere really to know so that the guilty might be pun
AZ least by the scorn OF public opinion and the innocent
P"'e' III ther true light l. ARTHUR WILLIAMS.