| Show A s COMRADE I of tile the to 10 Servo Sero Seron n a Corporal C O 0 or of flattery I Third Stiles artillery through Denver Ud his morning moraine en route roule from rom san o to Fort Leaven Leavenworth worth Xa Nan having baying eb charge of oC George colored of Company C t infantry I Is under life for Cor th the murder ot of Sd Co Copes a fellow soldier at t W Ma on the night of oC 25 16 Murphy It Ii a pleasant nt looking fellow and quite willing to talk The trouble started It seems over or a crap game am Copes COpel and 4 I 1 disagreed and had bad a arow arow row I Jut just had bd to put him out of tb be way to save ve myself The game ame was Wll the night Won before I shot him Next day dat he be kop kept threatening mI me and twice h be hit m me I touched him That TIIt b ho came caine round to m my tnt tent and aad I called me out and after atler a word ord or two tWel lie he came at 5 m mc with a bayonet 10 I Ir r pulled at my gun lIn and shot lIot him twice It it had bleb beth only once J I rue guess I could h have VI ot ot oft 0 Murphy was 11 court In No slid sentenced to tl be hanged but the tho ra end and privates ot of the regiment who believe that Murphy HId petitioned to t the b President who commuted the sentence to imprIsonment for lor life Corporal At Ar Arland land lantS ears Murphy is tb the best beet behaved behave prisoner lit lt evet nr handled and that there I every 11 prospect t of oC getting his sentence reduced Speaking of 01 military affairs lit in th the Murphy Mul h says 11 there is II no DO anything but fighting The I ii hot but no worse than rt ot of California and the sickness is II dill UNI to exposure Arland says r his hll battery MUr I now at t Island will Wi IJ to the East at at O once rt Ev Every bait In inthe Ute the regiment is itching to t get Into the Chinese trouble but w wish t to toSo I II So I to the PhilippInes With tit the party art a aie II five PhilippIne soldiers on their w way tl t hot Springs Aria Arl for or treatment On in of Cr them I is constitutIonally from dysentery an and tb the others are suf luf rn teeing from Irom |
