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Show ARMY OFFICERS COMMIT SUICIDE Pan Francisco. Nov C Gotta Fried Iluug, until recently first sergeant ser-geant of the twenty-seventh compan) , coast artil'crv. lies in the hospital at the presidio, near death from a self-infMctcd self-infMctcd wound. Also In the hospital, under observation, is Private Charles W. Caton, Tenth compa of coast artillery, who attempted to commit suicide because Ilugg had taken like action after having been reduced to tho ranks for participating in a poker game. Major Replaced. Major W C Dvis. who, ;as summary sum-mary court officer, sentenced Ilugg and ten other non-commissioned offi-1 cer! to reduction in ranks and to pav a f'ne, and ordered twenty-five pri- vntes to pay fines has been relieved i from duty and his place was taken by) Major J C. Johnson It is said at i the presidio tint the court proceed-1 ings had nothing to do with the change. The soldiers at Fort Winfield Scott and at the presidio assert that nover before has there been any objection ob-jection shown bv officers to the men playing u "friendlv" game of poker Entitled to Consideration. Hugg has been In the army for twonty-sevon years, and a sergeant for fourteen years in tho Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh company He has seen service serv-ice In Indian engagements and the Snanish-American war and In China at tho time of the Boxer uprising. His record had been clear until the present affair Before shooting himself him-self he wrote a noto to his company commander, saying that he felt that he had not been given a "square deal" and that his long service entitled him to some consideration. |