Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-10-21 | Page 6 | Work of Imagination

WORK OF. IMAGINATION. Story of Inhuman Trentmcnt of Filipinos Fili-pinos Absolutely Unfounded. Washington Oct 17 Peveral months ago a piper In Pennslsanli contilned what purported to he a letter written bs Wllllim J Longenherger, of com pans . Fifteenth Infantry to hli mother In Danville Pa In It he wis made to sas that the dead bodies of the rillplnos lay around on all sides un-burled un-burled In vatlous stases of decomposition decompo-sition nnd that whf n a rillpino dropped 'our bov all shot him seven or eight times so that he was coveted with blond fiom head to foot This stors obtained generil rlrcuta-Hon rlrcuta-Hon and was the subject of much crltl clsm ignlnst the aims The matter was made the subject of an olllclnl In vestlgatlon bs Gen Chaftee then In command In the Philippines with th lesult that the stors was shown to b without foundation Private Longenherger the reputed author of the letter, wtote to the commanding com-manding oincer of his regiment that the stjirs gives r mistaken lmrresslon I heird the stors fiom another enlisted en-listed man he stated, and have never witnessed the death of a mtlve In the Philippine nnd 1 now believe that the stors told me. was onls Idle bo cstlng Flrrt Lieut 13 Jl Heeve commin l-Ing l-Ing eompans A ot the rifteenth In-fnntrs In-fnntrs reports that the man who wrote the letter mentloneel Is n member of his eompans ond his record shows that he has never been In action nor near the scene of one, In fact he Ins never seen a Filipino die, nnt even from sickness The whole affair Is the work of his Imagination nnd there Is not a word rf truth In it "