Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-11
Says Shots Were Fired by Lieutenants
0sterman and Adams.
HE HEARS CALL TO HALT
Sutton Keeps on Running and Four
Flashes of Gun Follow.
MRS. PARKER's MEMORY GOOD
Lieutenant Sutton's Sister RecOunts
Interview with Adams, and His
Attorney Fears TO Cross
Examine.

A.. BOSTON, Mass. Aug. l0-1n an inter
view in the Boston Post attributed to
Sergeant Arthur Todd of the United States
! Marine corps, and made public today it
is stated that IL he should be called in the
Investigation Of the death of Lieutenant
James Sutton his testimony would be eX-
actly opposite to that given by sutton s
fellow officers.
Sergeant Todd who has been on range
duty at Wakefield. left early today for
Annapolis In describing the shooting, Ser
geant Todd says:
Il was corporal of the guard on the night
Lieutenant Sutton was shot, and from the
| place where 1 was standing 1 figure
about $50 feet away.
Il saw Lieutenants Adams and Osterman
and recognized them. They were nearer
me. The man who was in shirt sleeves
started o run and l heard a voice cry:
| Stop running! You're under arrest.
The man ran on and once more 1 heard
the same voice cry out loudly: Stop rum
ming or I'll shoot
THE man paid no attention and ran on.
and then the next moment l saw a flash
and heard a revolver report There were
three other shots, and the man who was
running dropped.
| Il ran over to him and bent over. 1t was
Lieutenant Sutton. l saw hole in the
mans forehead where there was a ragged
| entrance and a hole back of the left ear
| where the bullet came out clean.
Lieutenant Rocker, who has been so
| often mentioned in the case, came into the
| guard room where 1 then was, a short
/ time before the shooting. He was with a
| private named Richardson, and they had
| a drink together At the time of the shoot
| ing he was not anywhere in sight.
The next morning an enlisted man
! found a revolver OH the ball field, which
was not the regular service revolver, but
80 calibre affair"
Bullet That Killed sutton.
Todd said at one time in the converse
ton that he himself had the bullet that
killed Sutton, but later stated that some
one else had taken 1t. He refused to state
finally whether he knew where the bullet
was or not.
Just after the shooting, when 1 returned
to the guard room, Rocker came in all out
of breath and greatly excited. He said
Ny God. Archie, I think I've been shot.
" laughted at him at first, but he was
so earnest about 1t that l felt in his
| left hand outside pocket Just over his
heart There was a drill regulation book
! llleI6 am OuASN hdu bCCOlilS OOhlCO
/ in the pages.
Rocker was very much excited when 1
pulled out the book and showed him the
bullet and the way in which his life had
been saved. He stripped down to the
| skin and there was a reddish tinge just
| over his heart, showing just where the
bullet would have gone had the book not
| nterposed.
| ''ROalkar ha
and we agreed that he must have run into
the fire OF the bullets, one of which had
killed sutton. There were four shots
that heard in all and one OF them. 1 am
| convinced, struck Rocker
| Il have wondered more than once why
! 1 have not been called to go before the
I court of inquiry and tell what I know
Mrs. Parker's Memory Good.
| ANNAPOLIS, Nd Aug. 1o-Mrs. Rose
Sutton Parker, whose testimony has been
looked forward to as of surprising inter-
est in the investigation of the death on
October 49, 1907, of her brother, Lieutenant
| James n. Sutton, jr, United States Ma
| rine corps, was the center OF attraction
at the session of the court of inquiry to-
day. She took the stand smilingy, was a
| willing witness and demonstrated clearly
that her memory Of her interview with
Lieutenant Adams shortly after her broth
ers death was much better than was Lieu
tenant Adams recollection on the same
points. In his testimony as to what was
said during this six-hour interview, the
words, Il do not remember" frequently
/ occurred.
Mrs. Parker was positive in her state
ments as to what was said and done It
was notable from her testimony that
whether or not Adams and Sutton were
| friends Adams and Mrs Parker parted
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