Show SOLDIER ELuo ELUDES POST OFFICERS Private Parsons Said to Have Struck Superior Officer in Escaping Driving to Fort Douglas in an express wagon agon Private E. E Parsons a recruit of or ll 31 i company Twentieth United Stat States s In infantry In- In fan fantry try who had overstayed his leave of absence Is alleged cd to havo have assaulted Captain Robert Robart W. W Mearns and then thon driving rapidly to to Ninth East and Ninth South street to have deserted the wagon and arid escaped a posse of a dozen soldiers led ed b by the tho captain Officers ra at tho the post refu refused d to give details of ot the affair last night saying the they were acting under orders ordera of or their commanding officer Tom From other It sources was learned that Parsons had threatened to quit the serice ser ser- I vice ice After Atter overstaying his leave of ot absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence senco three days das he is said eaid to have havo telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned tho the orderly sergeant of ot his compan company com coin pan pany yesterday noon heaping abusive e language on him The story told b by soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers diem from Fort Douglas is that about 2 o o'clock yesterday afternoon an express ex cx- x- x press wagon drew up behind the quarter quarters ter ers of H II company compan Soldiers discovered that hat the driver was Parsons Captain Mearns was Informed and walking to toward toward to- to ward jd the tho recruit was about aboul to tell him ho no was WAB under arrest when Parsons It Itis Is 3 said struck the officer on tho the face taco with tho whip Instantly the tho recruit whipped the horse and the wagon with Parsons laughing gleefully spun down the tile driveway and took ook a course southeast Not long after Captain Mearns entered In pursuit accompanIed accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied b by his orderly and a n squad of ot soldiers all mounted Just as AI the posse of ot soldiers were Cre gaining on Parsons he Jumped from his wa wagon on and disappeared in an nn alley For half an nn hour th the soldiers who had driven their horses furiously galloped over lawns an and l through h alloys but finally thc they had to give up the chase I I I |