Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1915 — Private of Troop B Given Pommeling By a Sergeant. [ARTICLE]

Private of Troop B Given Pommeling By a Sergeant.

Lake County Star. Persons who happened to be at the fair groonds late Monday afternoon witnessed a disgraceful and brutal fight between two of the members of Troop B of the Fifth Cavalry, who were in camp there Monday and Tuesday. The participants were a sergeant of the troop and a private, who was reported as reaching the camp under the influence of liquor, and while the troopers were bathing .their horses preparatory to leaving for Ft. Sheridan the following morning the private disobeyed orders, and words led to Vows and the private was badly pummeled about the face by the officer. County Commissioner James Black, John Claussen and Secretary Craig stopped the fracas after the private’s face resembled a piece of raw meat, and told the officer where to head in at. Besides the beating the private received he will no doubt be court-martialed and sent to the guard houfie —as a private has very, little show in a military court of inquiry. Those who witnessed the scrap denounced the sergeant as a brute ,and believe he is the one to be punished, as all of the damage was done when the private was flat on his back.