Captain Foster's report.

Here is his report as accurate as I could remember it. No doubt there are errors and some parts are missing.

In the prologue:

"...And I respectfully submit that due to the devastation of the attack on November seventeen and eighteen on Fort Clendenin, Commanded by Colonel Stuart Valois, late of the Fifth Brigade, British Army in India., being so complete, extending to the poisoning of the well, that the fort be...

...Hanu, captured with his people November twenty three, 1876...plans for an attack were under consideration for months and was motivated...all food and stores in the fort...except for a single revolver found under the stairwell.


...Hanu further states that the revolver belonged to a civilian, in Hanu's words a strong, lonely man who had ridden in from the north..."

Continued in the epilogue:

"...The owner of the gun has not been found nor has his body been identified.

In reqard to the request through the United States Secretary of State by his excellency the Mexican Ambassador in regard to the whereabouts of two Mexican citizens, Senora Kleitz and Senorita Chavez, Hanu remembers two women but will give no further information.

But one thing to conclude my report. We found a freshly finished grave within the walls of the Fort. I did not wish to assume the responsibility nor commit the sacrilege of exhumation. There is a cross at its head. It is a very small grave.

Signed Captain Robert R. Foster Fourth Cavalry United States Army.

The language of Captain Foster's report does tend to give an appearance of reality to an otherwise somewhat implausible story.