Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-05-10

and the whole room was hushed dead
40 night for q minute Even Nolan losl
bic swaggef I'd a moment 1As. =. -A 4.
gan added: "Mr. Marshal. take tbs
prisoner to Orleans In an armed boat
and delIyeg him to the naval com
.nander there"
The marshal gave bis orders, and
the prisoner was taken out OF court
! "Mr Marshal" continued Old Nor.
gan, see that no one mentions the
United States to the prisoner. MI
Marshal, make my respects to Lieu
tenant Mitchell at Orleans and request
him to order that no one shall men
ton the United States to the prisoner
while he is on board ship. You will
receive your written orders from the
officer on DUTY here this evening. The
court is adjourned without day"
Il have always supposed that Colonel
Morgan himself took the proceedings
OF the court to Washington city and
explained them to Mr.. Jefferson. Ger
tain II Is that the president approved
tkem-certain, that IL, II | may be-
lieye the men who say they have seen
his signature Before the Nautilus got
round from New Orleans to the north
ern Atlantic coast with the prisoner on
board the sentence had been approved.
and he was a man without a country.
when was second officer OF the
Intrepid some thirty years after ] saw
the original paper Of instructions:
washington with the date. which must
have been late In 1900.
Sir You will receive from 1t. Neale the
person of Philip Nolan. late lieutenant
In. tbe.uniaed States army
This person on his trial by court mar
thai expressed with an oath the wish that
he might never hear OF the United States
again.
The court sentenced him to have his
wish fulfilled.
For the present the execution OF the Or
der lie intrusted by the president TO this
department -- ftss
You win take the prisoner on board your
ship and keep him there with such pre-
cautions as shall prevent his escape.
You viii provide him with such quarters.
rations and clothing as would be proper
for an ofFicer OF his late rank II he were
a passenger on your vessel on the busi-
ness OF his government
The gentlemen on board will make any
arrangements agreeable to themselves re-
garding his society. He is to be exposed
10 no indignhy OF any kind, nor Ii he ever
necessarily to be reminded that he IL
prisoner
But under no circumstances 10 he ever
to hear OF his country or to see any In
formation regarding II. and you VIII es-
pecially caution all the officers under your
command to take care that, in the various
indulsences which may be granted. this
rule, In which his punishment Is Involved
shall not be broken
II In the intention OF the government
that he shall never again see the country
which he has disowned. Before the end
OF your cruise you will receive orders
which will give effect TO this intention
Respy yours, w, SOUTHARD.
For the Secretary OF the Navy.
suppose the commander Of the LIE
want has II today as his authority for
keeping this man In his mild custody.
The rule adopted OH bonrd the ships
on which | have met The Man With
out a Country" was. think, transmit
ted from the beginning No mess liked
10 have him permanently, because his
presence cut of all talk OF home or of
the prospect of return. OF politics or
letters. of peace or Of war-cut OF
more than half the talk men like 70
have at sen But II was always thought
too hard that lie should never meet the
rest Of us, except to touch hats. and
L. NH Hk,
was not permitted TO talk with the
men unless an officer was by. With
officers he had unrestrained inter
course. as far AS they and he chose.
But be grew shy. though he had favor
ties was one Then the captain al
ways asked him to dinner on Monday.
Every mess In succession took mp the
invitation In its turn According to the
size Of the ship. you had him at your
mess more or less often at dinner. His
breakfast he ate In his own stateroOm
he always had a stateroom-w
was where a sentinel or somebody on
the watch could see the door, And
whatever else he ate or drank he ate
or drank alone. Sometimes. when the
marines or sailors hal any special jol
lifcatiOn. they were permitted 10 invite
plain Buttons" as they called him
They called him plain Buttons" be
cause. while he always chose to wear
regulation army uniform, he was not
permitted TO wear the army button.
for the reason that II bore either the
initials or the insignia OF the country
be had disowned
remember soon after ] Joined the
navy. Some one told the system which
was adopted from the first about bis
books and other reading AS he was
almost never permitted to go on shore.
even though the vessel lay In port for
months. his time NJ the best hung
hravv shd evnrvhodv was permitted
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