Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-09-20
SOME AMAZING TALES.

The marine came from a town with
i'll twelve miles Of Pittsburgh. When
| met him he was serving his :hird
"hitch." llc was n rather talkative
person and possessed n deadly hatred
for Dommicans and things Domini-
can. And the same applied to Hayti
and IIaytians. lie was with Butler
and Waller when Hayti was first in
would certainly stir up the good folks
vaded; and tho tales he told OF what
happened in that Negro republic
OF the States were they made public.
Here is one story told to me by a
marine and which Is offered here for
what It Is worth: -
II had buddy" said my friend,
of whom l thought the world. We
went through nil the rough stun In
Hayti and let me tell you it was
some rought after we started to clean
up. We worked together NIL tho time
we slept to gether and we fought for
each other. l tell you, l thought
more Of that buddy than I did of
any other living thing
During the raid we made through
Hayti when lots OF our fellows were
bumped off we made an agreement
that il the Haytians got one Of us
the other would not rest until he had
taken his rcvengc-had venged his
pals death.
And what made me go crazy after
my friend was picked off III Puerto
Prince by a skulking assassin was
the fact that we had gone through
hell and had come through alive. But
an amigo hiding behind the walls
Of an adobe shack got Tommic and
then.-wcll / didn't care what became
OF me!
'That night I picked up Il few tum
blcrs OF rum and after thinking the
matter over decided / was going to
start Il little war of my own. You
know how they do down in these
countries; how they plaster on the
talcum powder an inch thick and
then start on their paradcs around
the town square or plaza. Somcticcs
there is Il band concert, and some
times there isn't. But concert or no
the natives keep milling and milling
and milling, getting up sweat the
stencil of which turns the stomach
OF any honest to goodness American
VINO happens near them.
'"rhc moon wasn't shining the
night I selected for action" continued
Jack the AVcngcr SO | was in luck. l
had determined to get as many blacks
as it was possible to get before they
got me. I firmly expected to so along
with them; but didn't care.
''At first I considered the idea Of
picking them off with a rifle. This
would be too slow l decided; ma
chine gun would be better. And q
chine gun it was
81 got cighty-ninc of them before
a marine officer laid me out with a
bump on the head, using his rcvolv
or to hand out the bump. There was
excitement to peddle and for a time
it looked as though there was going
to be hell in general. You know we
really were at war with those Hayti
ans; they were killing us and we
were killing them. I guess I was a
bit hasty; but-well it was all in IL,
game.
was court martialled of course.
But the action against me wasn't very
SPIRITED. Our fellows knew that the
Haytians were taking advantage of
every opportunity to bump off marin
cs and that the greatest treac!>ssv was
IN evidence on their part at all times
Ihats why | guess I was let off with
mere reduction to the ranks"
HE KILLED FIVE.
This same marine it was who kill
ed five Domnicans in the streets of
Santiago some time after his being