Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-19
A Corporal Courtmartialod for Con-
duct prejudicial to Good Order
and Discipline.
He is Reduced to a Private Soldier
and Confined AT Hard Labor
for Three Months.
Another rour Down Sentenced 20 Hard
Labor tor Two Years for stealing
Three chickens
Special TO tho Garet,c.


SAN ANrONlO, Tx, Dec. rs. Rccently
Herbert Stevenson, corporal oi company
& of the Sixteenth miantry. was tried al
military headquarters by a ncneral conr;
martial. Brevet Brig .Gcn. n. Il. Sneltger
was president OF The court. The charge
was conduct prciudicial TO good order
aud military discipline, aud the proceed.
ings were | That Herbert Stevenson.
the defendant, ahusch maltrcatcd and
threatened the lie OF his lawful wife,
Belle Stevenson, by choking and strlkinn
her, and did 50 terriiy her az to cause her
to seek the protection OF the post com,
maudor Col Elmer Ojls, on tho sSth Of
November
. That defendant did state on Noyem.
Der 70 to the present commander mat he
believed that hts company commander
and an enlisted man had been urimlnally
Intimate with his wife, Belle Stevenson,
which statements worp false, aud without
foundation.
3. That the defendant, on the 25th OF
November, did threaten to Kill bis com.
pany commander.
The defendant pleaded lack of iurisdlc-
ton OF u military court to try these of.
tonses, which he claimed should only
| come before civil court. lie also
pleaded that the threats were made after
/ lac was under arrest aud were no offescp.
I The pleas were oycrruled by the cont,
which found him guilty, aud he was sen
/ fenced 60 be reduced 10 the grade of d
/ private soldier and confined at hare
labor, under the charge of Che guar,
where his company may be serving, ioi
| the period OF three months,
| The commanding general approved N,
/ finding OF The court la this case, hut in
/ dorSed the papers with the remark "Ap
/ proved, although the sentence H. deemed
/ entirely too light Tor the ofcn.cs u
/ which the person has been found guilty
The sentence VIII bo executed. Horbrr
/ Stevenson rs the brother OF Mclhurpe u
| Stevenson, who Is the man BurEard wa,
| jealous Of when no murdered his wit,
/ Dora, although when he (Mvlbnrnc Ste
vcnsou) wanted TO marry thlftecn.yrar
! old girl about three months ago, Herbert
/ stevenson swore before the county clcrl
/ that lac was the girls guardian, aud gave
! his consent Tor the issuance of the mar
! rage license, When Gen, STANLEY WA
lauprised OF the facts DO rhlpaed Mtlbn.N,
Stevenson of aud broke up the marriage
| Herbert Stevenson, who Is q very shruwt
| individual, defended his brother an,
acted as his counsel when Molhornh ste
vensuu was tried 10y court-marlnl on
! charge OF brlnR Instrumental IN CAUSING
( the death of Mrs. Bnfknrd, and when h,
| was tried himself he acted as hi,
/ own counsel The finding OF N,
conrt-mnrtinl In the case was made publ,
this morning.
The findings In tho other mllltar,
! COurtN-marLlal were also made public Ii
one OF them WATT Cody OF Company u
| Sixteenth infantry, who was charged win
shooting aud stealing three chickens ne
longing to n Mexican at Laredo, wa
found guilty, forfeited all HIS pay anC
allowances due him and wax sentenced [,
| confinement at hard labor OF two years.