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Show CORPORAL SHOOTS COMMANDING OFFICER ALSO SERGEANT WASHBURN AND : CORPORAL SUCH. He Had Been Reprimanded Because of Failure to Report Expiration of Leave f Absence. Des Moines. June 13. Corporal Lj sle Crabtree today shot and perhaps fatally wounded Captain John C. Raymond, Ray-mond, commanding officer of troop I), Second United States cavalry, at Fort Des Moines, then shot anil seriously injuied Sergeant James H. Washburn and Corporal Elijah Such, who attempted at-tempted to disarm him. Later ho shot himself and may die. Crabtree had been reprimanded by Captain Raymond because of his failure fail-ure to report when leave of absence had expired. lie had passed the night in Des Moines, and was to have relumed re-lumed to the barracks at 7 a, m. Crabtree Crab-tree was summoned by Captain Raymond Ray-mond and questioned 33 to his conduct, con-duct, whereupon the corporal hotly insisted in-sisted he had leave of absence until 7 o'clock tonight. Captain Raymond accepted this explanation and the incident in-cident was considered closed, when Crabtree demanded that he be transferred trans-ferred to another department. Thl3 Captain Raymond refused to consider, telling the corporal that he could not do that as long as ho was not a good soldier. Immediately Crabtree pulled a revolver re-volver from his pocket and began firing. fir-ing. Sergeant Washburn grappled with the soldier, receiving a bullet in the hand and one in the jaw. Captain Raymond had seized the man's arm and was about to disarm him when n bullet struck him in the neck, lodging in the spine, and he dropped to the floor paralyzed. Captain Raymond is a son of Brigadier Briga-dier General Raymond, retired, formerly for-merly of the engineers in charge of rivers and harbors and stationed at New York. His brother is Major Robert Rob-ert Raymond of the engineer corps, stationed at New York. |