Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-10
MEADE SOLDIER GETS
TEN-YEAR SENTENCE
Tried to Take Prisoner From
Military Police-New 600.
Yard Range
Camp Meade. Md. Sept,

Sd"p McRue, Mu., sept, ~.
For attempting to create mutiny
during the latter part of July by urging
other soldiers to take a prisoner away
from the military police, for leaving con-
finement before he was set at liberty by
proper authorities and for disobeying
the command of sentinel, Private
Harry Brown, Company A. 53sth Engi-
neers. will spend the next ten years at
hard labor in the United States Disci-
plinary Barracks at Fort Jay, New York
Arraigned before a general court-martal
on these charges. he was found guilty
and sentenced TO twenty years confine-
ment. The reviewing authority cut the
sentence in half, but Brown will forfeit
all pay and allowances and will also be
dishonorably discharged from the serv-
ice.
With other soldiers he was arrested
by the military police on the evening of
July IS for disorderly conduct after he
urged some of his associates to take a
prisoner away from the police. On Au-
gust he left his confinement without
authority. When arraigned he entered
plea of not guilty. This is the third
soldier here to be sentenced to ten years
confinement in the last few days.
The lads of infantry units who have
advanced sufficiently in their rife train
ing to fire on the 6O0-yard ranges will
camp hereafter at Glen Burnie and use
the rifle range there. at which many
members of the naval militia learned TO
nit the targets.
1t has been found that the bullets on
the 6OO-yard range in the camp fire.
quently pass over the hill in the rear of
the targets and endanger the lives of
civilians On farms and along certain
roads. Thus an order has been issued
forbidding the use of the 600-yard range
here.
Major General Jesse Mel. Carter, COM
mander of the Lafayette Division. is pre-
pairing plans for the construction of an
elaborate system of trenches for train
ing purposes. The trenches will be SINH
| lar in every respect to those in France
and will be used here for maneuvers. 1t
was the plan of Major General Joseph
f. Kuhn. commander of the seventy
! ninth Division. now in France, to con-
! struct similar system of trenches, bu,
the departure of the division prevented
! this.
BY the terms of an order issued today
a large number of men in the l5itf
I Depot Brigade will he transferred TO the
( tank service corps and will be sent tc
Camp CClt Gettysburg, Pa. Captain
James r. Young and Sergeant Albert \
Krouse and Corporals James f. Ryar
and Thomas f. jackson have been namet
to escort the men to their new training
grounds.
Private Carl s Marggraff, Tenth Com
pany, 154th Depot Brigade. has heei
transferred to field artillery replacement
troops and sent to Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville. to take the course at the felt
artillery officers training school there.
( Private Raymond Hall. MotortrucI
Company No. 32S. has been transferred
to Camp Joseph +. Johnston. jackson
VILE, Fla for assignment as an EN-
balmer in the graves registration unit.
( Cooks James F. Long. Thomas L
Burke and Lawrence l.. Rudger. of th
l54th Depot Brigade. have been trans
! ferred to the Eleventh Division and as
signed to the headquarters troop.
Private George w. Hamlyn, Fiftl
Company, of the depot brigade. has beel
transferred to the purchase and suppl!
branch of the Purchase and Traffic DiVI
sion, General staff, Washington.