Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — PRESIDENT SAVES SOLDIER. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT SAVES SOLDIER.

Private In Philippines Will Net Be Shot for striking Officer. ' The President has saved a soldier from an ignominious death. Private Thomas McVeigh, Company G, First Wyoming volunteer infantry, was fonnd guilty of striking his superior officer by a general court martial convened at Imus, Philippine Islands, and waa sentenced to be shot to death. By direction of the President, the sentence is commuted to dishonorable discharge and confinement at hard labor for the period of three years ; at Alcatraaz Island. CsL