San Antonio Daily Light

REMARKABLE RECORD IN CAPTAIN ROSE'S CASE

Special to The Light.

Washington, D. C., Jan. 24.—The war department has received the remarkable record in the case of Captain Robert W. Rose, of the Twenty-first infantry, who was tried in San Francisco before a military court for alleged insubordination and was sentenced to be reprimanded. The part of the record which is most interesting, is the copy of the correspondence in which Captain Rose indulged in with his senior officer. He was at the time of his alleged offence a patient under treatment at the army general hospital in San Francisco, and he addressed the military secretary of the department headquarters on one occasion, asking that if he were confronted with any charges, he be "proceeded against in a lawful and dignified manner." adding: "The treatment I am receiving here is not unusual and un-military, but it is cruel and unnecessary as I am not sick. My health is being confined by the confinement and torture. If I cannot secure relief from the military authorities I must, perforce, appeal to civil, as my health demands it." At another time he referred to the hospital and its surroundings as constituting "a novel situation, as it is my first term of confinement under the medical department." General Funston, who passed on the case thought that the court did not do full justice to the findings as expressed in the sentence.