The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-08
JUDGE AND VkGRANT
Pathetic Scene in Kansas City
Kansas Court
THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER
Both Did Patriotic Deeds Under
Funston.
THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER
CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER l.
eat 10 o'clock in the morning Col. Funs-
ton determined to endeavor to cross the
stream in the face Of the enemy's fire.
land west of the insurgent trenches, and
by an enhlading fire dislodse them.
with 40 of the men of the Twentieth
Kansas he went to point on the river
several hundred yards from the bridge.
swan with a rope to the opposite shore
,They landed and attached the rope to
: portion of the insurgent trench. under
"a heavy fire.
"Col. Funston then sent two men in a
boat across the river with the clothes and
rifles of White and Trembley, but the boat
was capsized. The men swan ashore. los
ing all the contents of the boat White
and Trembley lay naked for hours in the
hot jungle exposed TO the fire of the enc
my"
The foregoing is from newspaper re
ports of April, 1899. It tells Of the daring
and devotion Of two ''bunkies'' in the
Philippines. comrades in tent and field.
partners in camp and war, ever foremost
In the line Of their duty.
But were equally daring both from the
same town. Kansas City, Kan, belonging
10 the same regiment, sleeping under the
same shelter sharing the same blankets
and undergoing the same yicssitudes.
Never a privation that Trembley felt that
4 White did not offer share 1t.
Strange, indeed, that war should make
such courageous terminates. and thai
peace should make such friendship sor-
row.
CHAPTER II.
Face to face the other day in crowded
courtroom at Kansas City, Kan, staring
at each other through the mists of mem
DRY. sat judge and a vagrant-the one
dignifed, sorrowful, almost speechless;
the other amazed, ashamed and repent
ant.
Judge Trembley it was, and before him
his bunlzie, Corporal White. his fellow
hero of Calumpit and the Bag-Bag, the
man who had swum by his side across
that raging stream of death with a rope
In his teeth.
The judge pressed his hand to his fore
head, and reeled in his chair:
Corporal Wftite-cld man-I-I-good
God. officer, what is the charge here?"
Forgery, Your Honor; he forged your
name TO some checks. Here they are, sir
The case is plain"
Again came the flood ties Of memory
through Judge Trembley's brain. He
saw once more the rushing stream, the
dark, fierce faces along the rife barrels,
the far side, the cheers of his COM
rades and the low, quiet ordor of Col.
Funston: Get to the other side and fast
n the ropes. You. too. White. If you go
under. I'll jump in after you. Hurry,
now!"
Then came the memory Of the long;
strong strokes. the turbid stream, the zip
and splash of the Mauser bullets, and
the wolf-like snarl of the Filipnos as
they saw the two men drawing steadily
enarer.
And White was the first to land-the
first to crawl up the jungly bank. the
first to fasten 4 rope to the tree and turn
TO help his comrade with outstretcheG
hand.
And here was his comrade sitting in
Judgment with White his prisoner.
Judge Trembleys voice faltered as he
gazed at his old tent mate standing with
downcast eyes before him.
THE man is not guilty he said, with
the memory OF the past strong upon him;
'he is not guilty; let him 60"
But" replied the officer. he is a va
grant. He has no visible means of sup
port According TO law he should be de-
tanned"
For a full minute the judge bowed. hif
head upon his hands. Then raising his
ewes he gazed upon his old comrade.
Corporal White" he said TREMENDOUSLY,
at am unutterably sorry for this; l heard
that you were doing well. I am loath to
believe that you have committed forgery.
If YOU have forgive you as far as am
personally concerned. would rather you
were a vagrant and an honest man than
forger. shall never forget your hero
ism in the past. There must be some good
in a man who can act as heroically as
you have acted.
I viii keep you in the city's care until
can find you work
With downcast head and lips quivering
Corporal White followed the policeman
back to the cell whence he came. Thus
ended one of the strangest evolutions of
fate that has ever been recorded in this
country
CHAPTER III.
Edward White and William B. Trem-
bley were thrown together as terminates
IN the celebrated expedition against Ca
lumpit the famous campaign in LuTon
which won for Gen. Frederick Funston
his brieadier-general's commission in the
regular army They swan river to-
gether while CALLING fire Of Filipino
b,,IratS snatte~es the water in a Snrav
about them. carrying rope hawser which
later ferried the army across to a grand
victory.
IT was as prive in Company B, Twen-
tieth Kansas Volunteers. that fame FIRST
came 10 Trembley and White. When the
regiment was enrolled in Wyandotte coun-
". Kan. Tremhley was a slip Of q boy
trudeing IN hundred steps IN a gigantic
elevator every three or four minutes OF
the CAV to oil the machinery. He was
a lonS-legsed lad and he generally went
up the steps on the run, three or four lifts
AZ A time White was a freckied-faced
lad who did odd Jobs about the packing
houses.
In Luzon. with the then Col, Fred Funs'
ton. the mettle of the lads came out Ca
luinpit had been taken and the Kansans
were pushing Aguinaldo and Gen. Luna
into the mountain Businesses. The FIJI
pinos were holly pursued 70 The Rio