The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-11
FORTY.ONE SENTENCED To LIFE
TERMS IN FEDERAL PRISONS
ONE DRAWS ~, YEARS, THREE GET THREE YEARS AND
FIVE ARE EACOUITTED-EXECUTIONS OF THE THIR-
TEEN ARE PRIVATE IN FT SAM HOUSTON AT
SAN ANTONIO.

Implication in the riots at Houston,
| Texas, August 90, 1917, were approved
by the commanding general. southern
department, December 10. 1917
| The sentences OF the court were as
follows:
: In the cases OF Sergeant William C.
, .sbitt, Corporals Larnon j. Brown,
as Wheatley. Jesse Moore, and
, W. Baltimore; Privates first class)
w. an Breckenridge. Thomas C. Haw-
kins and Carlos Snodgrass of Company
| 1; Ira b. Davis. James Divins, Frank
Johnson. Risley w. Young. all of Com
pany /, and Pat McWhorter Company
NJ, to be hanged by the neck until dead
In the cases of Cook VIM. Frazier
Cook Nathan Humphries Jr., Privates
first class John NJ. Hudson Jr., Jas. X.
Johnson. Ben McDaniels, and Stewart
w. Phillips. all of Company |; Privates
Douglas r. Bolden. Fred Brown, Robert
Brownfield, ii. Capers, Ben Cecil, Gerald
Dixon, II. Green, J. r. Hawkins, Geo.
Hobbs, Norman ID. Holland, Richard
Lewis. Leroy Pinkett, Jos. Wardlow,
VIM. s. Kane. Harry Richardson, Lu-
ther Rocker, Roy Tyler. Jos. WI
liams Jr., all of Company l: Privates
Ernest Adams. John Adams, Wash
Adams, Douglass X. Lumpkins, Richard
Brown. all of Company'K; Privates Allie
C. Butler, Abner Davis and Geo. II.
Parham, of Company l.; Bugler Ruben
w. Baxter, Company NJ. Privates Wal
ter Burkett, Jas. Coker. Callie Glenn,
VIM. j. Hough Thos. Jackson, Walter
T. Johnson Dean New Jesse sullivan,
all of Company NJ, all of the Twenty
fourth United States infantry in each
event to be dishonorably discharged
from the service. to forfeit all pay and
allowances due and to be fined at hard
labor at such place as the reviewing
authority may direct, for the term of
his natural life.
Gets Two and Half Years.
In the case of Private Oliver Fletcher,
Company NJ. Twenty-fourth United
States infantry, to be dishonorably dis.
charged from the service, to forfeit all
pay and allowances due and to be con-
fined at hard labor at such place as the
reviewing authority may direct, for two
years and six months.
In the cases of Private Henry T.
Walls. private, first class, Alvin Pugh,
Company I. and Private Walter b.
Tucker, Company |. all of the Twenty
fourth United States infantry, and each /
of them TO be dishonorably discharged
from the service, to forfeit all pay and
allowances due and to be confined at
hard labor at such place as the review
ing authority may direct, for two years
To be acquitted:
Privates WIN. B. Beacoat. Grover !
Burns. Company /; Grant II. Mems,
Company X Bursh l.. Smith, Company
L, and Terry Smith Company NJ all
of the Twenty-fourth United States in
fantry.
Was No Appeal.
The forty-sixth article of war author
ICES department commanders in time
of war to carry into execution sentences
of death without reference to higher
Those named above as sentenced to
death were hanged on the military res
ervation at Fort Sam Houston at 71I /
o'clock a. m. December II, 1917.
The execution was carried out under !
charge of a guard furnished by the
troops at Fort Sam Houston.
The remains were inferred near the
place of execution.
Those named above sentenced to con- |
finement for life will be sent to the
United States pententiary at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas.
Those sentenced to confinement for
a number of years will be sent to the
United States disciplinary barracks at
Fort Leavenworth. Kansas.
Those acquitted will be released from |
and sent to join their regi- |
ment.