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Show 1 The Murder of Father Augustine 'Frf man's Journal.) ' y1"' the st .)ry of the murder of I'"H,-J : A Justine, a Filipino priest v,!'' v'"- 'l"ne to death by means of ? YM cui-p," was first published, I 11 :-ie,i in Washington. There r. a cloud of witnesses . 'li testimony was of such a charac- ; )" ihat. t!, W ashington officials have i it last 1,. , n compelled to acknowledge i 'aMi.iiic priest was foully done J 01 .je;,;ir i.y prsons wearing the United I ta'es uniform. Here is a Washington I C;sle-'i haiing with the subject: 1 Vl; .ten. Nov. 8. The war de- 'J,',n" investigation into the allega-i allega-i 'on hy j) ., anti-imperialist committee 1he L.-.ke ;f.0rge conference, that nuhe,. Augustine, a Catholic priest, ' Iv,. ' h' the water cure in the !1,,l,Pin.-s. apparently has confirmed j J.1'' :'iaiii tiM t that the man died as the rsu:t i'ie 'cure.' But 'it also has '"f11 lound that the persons who ad-1 ad-1 'ln'Sic,,d t;K, cure' jn order to get a " t;('! money of which he was the 1 Hie?0'5'1"1 uore volunteers from Ver-1 Ver-1 rni'e. ' an'1 ''''-' njw beyond the reach of - I ouil a:y ''" having been mustered I I 0J 'he service." I , fa,-t that Father Augustine's 1 !'JfJ''"is have been mustered out of I iTt s7.'vi"" f the United States does K f b'l u " lhe government of responsi-Ij responsi-Ij j .The dispatch we have quoted I Uav v Vor(k'd in such a way as to 1 to ,1 impression that the murder I Soldi 11 refers was done fay Pr'vate 1 rt CIS vho Were acting on their own 1 TV'"!1 lbi;'ty-- That is not the case. 1 Utidi -r ,";d,,,r darkness was perpetrated tj.,.. "'dors received from shoulder-I shoulder-I ' il'ea murderers holding commis sions from the United States government. govern-ment. If the law maxim that the master mas-ter is responsible for the acts of his servants is to be accepted, then the government cannot clear itself so easily. The fact that the actual murderers are now in civil life, somewhere in Vermont Ver-mont must not be permitted to obscure the other fact that the murder of Father Augustine could not have taken place without the cognizance and cooperation co-operation of commissioned officers, some of whom in all likelihood are still in the- United States service. In The Irish World we find a communication com-munication from a correspondent signing sign-ing himself Daniel J. O'Connor, who was an enlisted man on the gunboat Paragua, on board of which Father Augustine Au-gustine was a prisoner before the 'water 'wa-ter cure" was administered to him. After telling how Father Augustine was forced at the point of a pistol to disguise himself by donning the uniform uni-form of a United States artillery sergeant ser-geant to prevent the native, help on board the -Paragua from recognizing him. the correspondent continues: "About 11 o'clock on this night we sailed down the river. I was on -the mid-watch. Before going on the guard shipmate allowed me to go down and fookat the prisoner. The crew then had all the particulars as to ho he was and what his fate was to be. Padre ISSitine still had tb uniform t on and his hand irons removed. His feet w ere manacled and he was repeating his beads. I asked him if he cared for a Srink. and he aved his hand no 1 remained re-mained about ten minuter and -one of the crew made insulting remarks as to (Continued on Page 7.) THE MURDER OF FATHER AUGUSTINE "Continued from page 1.) I '.is reed. At 4 o'clock 1 again went t '!"!. and he was praying. "' daylight Benata was reached. '' 1 i' Augustine was hurried into a l" . t and was rowed within a half mile shore. He was then made to wade, ; -v C - water was shallow. ": test of this lamentable case was in The Irish World." ' will be seen from this testimony ''i Hie kidnaping of Father Augus- ' "as planned and executed under ' 'i;l:oi it v of military and naval offi-; offi-; of the. United States. The harsh- i.' :-s with which the doomed priest was ti.ato.-t while on board of the gunboat I'i.e1j;l showed the animus of his cap-i cap-i :';rs. They were bent upon showing j h in no mercy, as was evidenced by the j l de.tth they subsequently inflicted I t.r'oi hji, I ih- government at Washington 1 ' sh'-ul, not be permitted to shirk re- i sponsiliiiiiy for this great crime by as- I s' ning the Vermont Yankees who mur- di ir i Father Augustine are not now in j the United States service. |
