Arizona republican., 1916-04-25
COURT MARTIAL FINDS GULLEy PARTLY GUILTY
Orders His Dismissal from the Service, But Govern or COmmutes It to An Honorable D is clh ar g e With Same Rank

| By General Order number three, | Capt. Clarence V. Gulley of the Ari- Zona National Guard ceases to be- | come connected with that organiza- | tion. | The order is issued to put into eff feet the findings of the court martial which tried him on eight counts and specifications a month ago. The yer dict of the court found him guilty of four of the eight counts and specifi- cations and not guilty of the other four. The sentence was dishOnorable dismissal from the service. The gov ernor after a lengthy perusal of the testimony in the case, committed the sentence to an honorable discharge. without loss of rank or impairment of his ability to earn and hold future commissions.
 In his review of the testimony, at
 tached to the verdict passed out yes
 terday afternoon by Adjutant General Harris, the governor takes an oppor-
 tunity to guess at the possible
 sources of information, to which the
 Republican has access in it's first ex pose of National Guard conditions. The governor absolves the war de- partment and his own office from creating the leak and in a vague : manner suggests that either Capt. Cromwell Stacey or NJ. H. McLain of Clifton could have divulged the mat ters. The governor says in speaking ? of MT McLain that While the de- g fendant in testifying did not state the 2 connection of Mr McLain of Clifton
 nor divulge the manner in which this person came into possession of of f ficial information that concerned him r in no proper way, a reasonable as = sumption on which to base a careful = lanalysis of the charges preferred . lagainst the said Capt C. V. Gulley . is that the defendant in this portion f of his testimony referred to the MT e McLain who is connected with the - Detroit Copper company, and who 1t has heretofore been out-spoken in hi. 2 criticism of the service rendered by - the National Guard in protecting lift
 and property in the Clifton Moreno II district
 d Tt is my honest opinion that thu | lliSl lNb DOoS'Jit opulN bl pltHo III ;e formation named by the defendan Ie are negligible in these proceedings a L. being official sources from whicl l. the newspaper statements would yer. ,s improbably be derived. So far a -b the remaining two sources are con ts cerned, l have no disposition to dray f conclusions beyond that point wher they would so extenuate the offens z committed as. to justify a mitigatio
 of the sentence imposed upon the de n fendant by the court"
 t The governor is inclined to be (
 the opinion that Gulley was the too
 of some one higher in his alleged at
 tacks against the adjutant gener;
 and himself.
 io Guilty and Not Guilty
 , The court found Gulley guilty Ut, the first charge q Violation of Pal ou agraph $, section 77, Military Coo IT. of Arizona" Of specification two i' the first charge, wherein Gulley
 charged with making incendiary r,
 marks to members of the guard the armory, he is found guilty.
 Of charge two, wherein Guley - accused of violating paragraph it section 77, of the military code, u le- court decided that Not Guilty was u b's proper verdict The same verdict W; ie- rendered in specification one eir charge two, in that Gulley instruct, he Sgt. Duncan of his company tn ,e there would be no more drills of | be company.
 the Guilty is the verdict for char
 three, a violation of paragraph = section 77, Military Code" On t
 first specification of the third chars
 the court found Gulley not guilty (
 specification two of the third char
 Gulley was found guilty. On t
 third specification, wherein Gulley m accused of making false statemer MI in regard to the political attitude 1u Col. Harris, he was found not guilt u The governors comment on {
 proceedings of the trial, and his
 der in the case is as follows ~ The record and the findings of {
 Court Martial having been forward mo to the governor as reviewing offic due the following are his orders thereon eu- State House, Phoen re- April IS, 19 on- On reviewing the testimony tal inc. during the trial by court martial r of Captain Clarence V. Gulley chart nom with several modes of conduct unl
 coming military officer and g, put tleman, all of which are specified in the record of the case, I find am ging evidence to sustain the court Tn 'ica, judging the oeIenuant gulity on th Do. of the charges specified,
 Beyond any reasonable doubt, rt aa said Captain Clarence V Gulley ,aar been proved guilty of such uns ,,a, dierly activities as were subversive discipline and tended directly .ne wards the demoralization of the ] in' tional Guard of Arizona at a time he- critical as to render his conduct 'oV- pecially reprehensible and devoid arty that patriotism which is justly
 pected from a member of any n been tary organization maintained for I the poses of national defense and s na- protection.
 d by In my judgment, however. it Ire comes evident from the record port, proceedings that the defendant he Tho named did not, in all probability,
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