[17] Hearings on affairs in Philippine Islands, 1902.
[18] War Department Report, 1899, vol. i., pt. 4, p. 109.
[19] Senate Document 331, p. 1890.
[20] Senate Document 331, pp. 1890 et seq.
[21] Ib., p. 1436.
[22] Senate Document 331, p. 1448.
[23] Ib., pt. 2, p. 1447.
[24] The “water cure” (a cure for reticence) consisted in placing a bamboo reed in the victim’s mouth and pouring water down his throat thus painfully distending his stomach and crowding all his viscera. Allowed to void this after a time, he would, under threat of repetition, give the desired information.
[25] Since the above was written, the officer in question has joined the Great Majority. It was that fearless, faithful, and kindly man, General Fred. D. Grant, who died in April, 1912.
[26] The lieutenant is no longer in the army, but he resigned voluntarily long after the incident related in the text, and for reasons wholly foreign to said incident.