Show MY rough treatment of a private TELLS IT ALL bruised by ife he was kas brutally capt capr lovering levering military in bilm cuba Cili CHICAGO CAGO oct 22 private charles hammond Hamm onil U S A gannt and thin and showing plainly the effects of his hie fourteen days confinement on a bread and water diet in ill the guardhouse at fort sheridan idan appeared before a court of hia superior office officers ra today a and nd told them of the circumstances of his dis disobedience bedi ence of iha orders of C capt apt rpt lovering and of tae subsequent drastic measures taken by that official to enforce his bis commands comm acda but few spectators were present to witness the opening of the court as the tha officers wera engaged in the regular drill on the parade ground two email holes in the hack back of Ham hammond 8 jacket were visible reminders of the alleged d dragging on the he mornin of october ath under oath ho he t stifled as follows on friday I 1 refus eed to po go to work 9 and was ordered from the guardroom to my mi cell at 1 I was told that I 1 woud have to appear belore beidie a summary coutt I 1 told the officer of the gaar I 1 that if he be wanted ule me he be must carry me there capt Loveri lovering ncr came here with two meru members bers of the guard auard ine cne order was given to 0 o the Een gentries tries to alep in and drag me out ant so sa that my back would strike on the doorsill doo the sentries took hold of me and threw me to the floor and as I 1 was dragged out sergent serg ent barnard tried to hold me down onto the sill bill EO that ny my ba bask sk k would be scraped I 1 was dragged to the guardroom outside ou side and as I 1 went cent through the acor capt lovering loverine put his heel over my head and ami threatened d to stab me ir the face then 1 hen I 1 was waa allowed to walk back to my cell later capt lovering returned to my cell call with tour lour sent sentries nes and gave the order go in and jerk that man out the door was unlocked end and two een tries stopped stepped in and threw me ma capt Luver L Auz kicked me in tha s do de while I 1 was waa down four times with his foot and as I 1 went over the sill aaen he gave ma a vicent kick in the ebo alder he me m over the right side to the left and prodded me twice more moie is toot foot and gave me three more vion F nl kick about the shoulders during ma bene 8 ii hi cussed me constantly aging he ba vilest kind of oaths as he sneered now will you get up will you vou walk now then ordered a rope sed and gave orders ardeis to have my feet crossed and tied at tle ankles I 1 placed my hands behin i my head bead then lovering lovenna and the a nines began to drag me ile he me in the right hand with his bia sword anti and then in the shoulder I 1 was dragg dragged l to the guardroom euard room and out to the porch where with one hard jek they started signed me down the stone steps on my back and acro ocro across cs the road tae sentney were reinforced by two others I 1 wits was then dragged over pavements and r arjad aads tads i to D compan companas comp anys s steps up the steps then down azain again across the pavement and under the tower to A eom bom panya steps and finally into the adjutants office gol col Bai bainbridge abridge ordered the rope untied just sa re I 1 was waa caled before the court at 2 I 1 asked to be takes taken to lo the hospital where the doctor the blood from the sword stabs on monday I 1 was called before capt richards and have bince been in Folit solitary arv confinement 0 i bread and water gul cul snyder boyder asked hammond why he left his baracks at Platt kburg as N Y the witness s replied 1 I had some private business in Chi chicago cazo and Ps es the inspector general was at the barracks I 1 know the request for release woul i be refused I 1 bad no intention of do de sorting berting and reported at fort sherdian Sher dlan sa as not to be beso a rat ikei I 1 expected to be cen confined fined but thought though I 1 would be returned to my post and after sentence re stored to my duty capt lovering layering Lo yering was then called he male made no attempt to deny any of the accusing witness bitnes 1 statements he admitted that by his orders hammond had been dragged from the guardhouse and he also admitted that he be had struck the soldier and pricked him with his sword none of this treatment capt lovering levering said bad injured hammond in the least as was proven by the surgeons report and the methods used were in his hia ou opinion necea necessary sary for the discipline diECi pline of the army military KIis rule in cuba NEW oct sa A dispatch to the herald from froin havana says A local newspaper publishes and vouches for the following at in the district of san julian belonging to the municipality of melena del sur there cheze were concentrated 2500 persons these te e rados were the only inhabitants of the place now there are only five survivors the tha rest having died of hunger and fever in havana city it is no unusual sight to see ten or a dozen dezen dead on the paza p aza early in the morning the au an ties employ ragul regular car rounds men to remove bodies bo iaea found in the park there is ie no abatement in the activity of 0 the rebels in the tha western province tte tie spanish re regiment piment of on onita its way tc rubi hula hills in pinar del debbio rio stumbled across a dynamite bomb and lost ten men killed and forty one wounded further on they came across another but bat it failed to explode the soldiers became terrified and refused to proceed in havana province one hundred rebels of raoul aranyos Ara ngoa command entered and raided a town they carried away a quantity of clothing and provisions without a shot being fired by the garrison near Artem artemisa iEa havana province a band of insurgents under acca at and the spanish guerrilla force stationed on the liep ep tuno tuco estate in railroad collision between artemisa and mangas several boilers sod Bod fera lers were killed inhabitants of guana a suburb of havana report hearing firing just outride the town last tho the fir ferng ng continued for several hours and iia i ia is morning some wounded troops were brought in lo ITO 10 details of the feht have been obtained |