Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-11-06

| Watson's Reply
| when the general denounces a sem
ator as liar, he had better remember
that it is within the power of the SEN
ate to bring him here and time may
come when we will do that. If he.
talks that way about more senators it
may be done. We have as yet no kaiser
that says me and Cod
| I'm not going to lower myself to
the level Of either Secretary Weeks or
Gneral Pershing in indulging In abuse.
/ simply content myself with saying
that it was great improperly for
either of these gentlemen in the public
service to publicly condemn another
| without, the slightest investigation.
| Senator Watson then read letter
from an unidentified Richmond, Va,
woman who said she had served L.
months as an army nurse. The letter
said that officers made eourtesans of
the nurses wherever possible and
nurses who resisted were subjected to
lpersonal indignities." Mr.. Watson
also said he had been told personally
by former nurse that she had been
compelled to repel the assault of an
officer.
! Reads More "Evidehce'
| More kilograms and letters in sup
port of his illegal hanging charges also
were presented by the senator. He
submitted another photograph of what
he said was an army gallows in France
which photograph, he said, had been
smuggled into the country by a Hunt
ington, w. Va, private.
! Apparently there were as many
gibbets as hospitals" said the senator,
who for the first time gave the name
Clifford L. Aver, Jr., of the man
he said had told him of hearing from
a gallovs guard that twenty-one Sold
iers had been hanged without court
nlartials. He presented a telegram
from Aver stating that an affidavit was
being forwarded for the use of the spec
ial committee that will meet Monday
to determine procedure in the inyes-
| tlgation of the senator's charges. The
senator promised to protect his witness
| if any attempts. he said, were made to
browbeat or intimidate him.
| Another telegram presented by the
senator was from George Carbough,
Aaron, Ga, who said he served In the
6o5th Engineer corps and declared that
Mr.. Watson's chargs of illegal hangings
were true. Senator Watson said this
witness would appear before the COM
mittee and face the nabobs Of the gem
| eral staff.
Cites Specific Case
The senator read another telegran.
the sender of which was not disclosed
which asked that the senate investiga-
ton include ''the case of Albert Pur-
cell of Cincinnati about which he was
able to learn nothing from the war de-
'partment. The message said that Pur-
cells death occurred at camp at San
Antonio, Texas.
William Gibbons of Cleveland, had
written. Mr.. Watson said, that he had
two photographs, one taken before and
the other after the hanging of sol
der against whom the writer said the
charges lacked definiteness.
The senate also was told by Senator
Watson that q former service man now
living in Washington, had given him
a statement as to the hanging of four
negro soldiers ION one gallows at one
time, each clad in the uniform that
General Pershing wears
The same soldier informed him, he
SAID, that these men were hanged with
out courtmartial
Another soldier had informed him.
Mr.. Watson said. that the body of "a
negro convict. the black cap still over
his face, had been exhumed and sent
to the home of white woman in
Rochester, n. u, whose son had been
killed in action.
Just such case happened in my
home county in Georgia." the senator
added.
The further we go, the worse it
gets" he concluded. 'sThe more we stir
it the worse it stinks.'
FORMER LIEUTENANT TELLS