The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-02-12
Sergeant Frank Cady, a Soldier for
Four Years, Goes to Jail Rather
Than Pay a Fine.
WAS WITH FAMOUS PONY TRAIN.
One of the Unknown Heroes who Helped
Avenge the Dead of the Tenth Pennsyl-
vania in the:Philippines.

llIdl EVGI OCCup1Cu d Cell 'dl1 tAC COuulJ
jail is now being entertained by Sheriff
Timme. He is Sergeant Frank Cady,
honorab1y discharged from the Amer
lean volunteer and regular armies
after four years of service and with
record of battle service seldom allowed
to single man.
Cady has ali the stubbornness of a
soldier who has served for several
years in the Philippines, and although
he has money and to spare, he has re-
fused to pay a fine of a dollar and
costs assessed against him for break
ing the city ordinance by INDUCING
too freely in thelsbeverage that made
Milwaukee famous at Manila. Ser
geant Cady is great strapping fellow
more than six feet tall, bearing the
battle scars in all parts of his body,
and when seen at the Jail this morning
he gave quite an interesting account
of his life with the army in Cuba and
the Philippines and exhibited with
pride his honorable discharge which
has list of service notices as long as
| the moral law.
Cady has pension of thirty-two dol
lars month ifrom the Government,
and he spends1 his time largely in
travelling about the country. He said
he just drifted into Kenosha and found
the people so hospitable that he didn't
mind spending fifteen more days with
them.
Cady was one of the heroes OF the
famous raid on the pony train in the
Philippines when thirteen members of
the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment
| were cut down by the native soldiers.
He told of the famous raid this morn
ing and referred to the bold stand of
the fifty-two men against five thousand
of the enemy as if it were an every day
affair.
"The soldiers he said, care en-
p1oyed for just such duty and you will
find only a few of them who are out
seeking to get glory out Of the fact
that they stood by and did what they
were ordered to do. We boys had been
ordered to defend those ponies and,
although we left fifteen of our men in
the hands of the enemy, their lives
have been avenged thousand times.
We were not particularly looking for
notoriety but it is just as good for the
people to say we did our duty"
Cady was promoted to his present
rank as result of his bravery on the
field. He enlisted as private in the
thirteenth volunteers and after little
over year of service became Sar-
geant. He had never been to see a
doctor until the day he was wounded.
This occurred in one of the battles on
the island off Luzon. Cady was with
a small party that had. been sent to
guard a wagon train and when the
train was fred on he fell shot through
| the hip. AS soon as he had recovered
from his wound he rejoined his regi-
ment but it was found that he was not
| fit for service and he was Immediately
pensioned and retired. Previous to
his service in the Philippines, Cady
was an officer in the ninth Infantry,
and served during the campaigns in
Cuba. He was one of.the first men to
go over the walls of Santiago and his
discharge gives him due credit for his
bravery atsthis battle.
In speaking of the American soldier
in the Philippines Cady said that the
men were not making any objections
to the treatment they were receiving
from the Govern ment, but that the
soldiers did object to the fact that they
were forced to treat the "niggers" as
their equals. These men, he said,
we're given more privileges than the
soldiers, and for this reason fierce
hatred of them had arisen among the
members of the army. 'The boys, "
said Cady, event over there to fight,
and they can't get it through them to
take the Filipinos in their arms and
educate them.''
This awful hatred of the Fi1ipinos is
general among the soldiers according
not allowed to fire on the natives he
claims that every day bodies are
brought in from the out. posts. The
soldiers are only allowed small num-
Der of cartridges daily and this makes
it impossible for them to kill the
natives as all cartridges must be &C
counted for, but in order to get around
this regulation the soldiers hid the
cartridges in their bread and carried
them with them to duty and fred on
every native that approached.
This hatred for the natives, accord
ing to the story of Sergeant Cady, has
in some measure prevented the peace
able settlement OF affairs in the Island.
Sergeant Cady will be released tomor-
row and he will return to his home in
Corning, New York.