Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-13

to what he knows and bring a copy
! Of his report.
Robert H. Harrison, 313 Murchi
| son building, Wilmington, N. c.,
| wrote me December that the time
| has come for me to tell the world
what l know about hangings in
France without any trial This wit
ness is anxious to receive a sub
pOena.
Louis Goldberg, IS Bank street,
! Paterson, N. j., saw soldier killed
| in France without trial and offers
| to come here and give other valua
| BILE testimony.
&c. H. Elliott, 800 Cooper street,
| Atlanta, in a letter to me, offers to
walk to Washington if necessary to
give evidence of i extreme brutal
| treatment of soldiers in France. This
witness helped to build the gallows
and he also saw soldiers shot down
| by officers.
paul M. Watson, So Williams
street, New York City, will testify
! that a soldier was killed by an Of
| ficer by shooting at Camp Bassen,
France. The officer was intoxicated
at the time.
81. A. Ballard, U. S. P. II. S. hos
pital, No. IS, Greenville, S. c., states
that he is willing to testify that a
soldier in Company z, 600 Engineers,
Eighty-first division, was brutally
! mistreated and when he died his
| company commander marked his
| case pneumonia.
u. ~. Brown, 112 Lucille avenue,
| Atlanta, is willing to testify a negro
soldier was killed at St. Afghan,
| France, without having been tried.
| The soldier was attached to the Sec
| ond division, United States marines.
''E. B. Meadows, Ruote, Bowden,
| Ca, can furnish evidence that a sol
der was shot at Fort Oglethorpe by
order of Colonel Jackson. This man
| had no trial
Tied to Tree
81. J. Harris, Winston Salem, N.
| c., says he saw a soldier tied to a
, cross, his arms and hands tied so
| that he had to stand on tiproes. He
I had in some manner incurred the dis
| pleasure of his major in command.
! This soldier was from either the
Twenty-seventh or Thirtieth division.
= James H. LoVelace, Rome, Ga,
| says he knows of two American sol
diers being hanged in uniform after
the armistice was signed, one white
! man and one negro. The white ma n
said he was innocent Of the crime
charged and it was later reported
| the wrong man was hanged.
'F. 3. Fitch, 924 Middle street,
Lansing, Mich, states he was wit
ness to and has documentary evil
dence of two men hanged without
trial.
"W. Lester Stephens, Buena Vista,
| Va, is willing to testify that sol
| der in France was killed because he
| happened to be a conscientious OBJ
| jector.
| Walter William Holbrook, Fair
mont hospital, Kalamazoo, Mich, is
willing to testify soldier was
hanged not far from Metz. The
rumor was that he had hurt some
officers feelings.
Harry X. Walmer, SO West Fifty
| second street, New York city, per-
sonally knows that men were MUIR
| dered in cold blood at Shells and
Hotel Rue st. Anne, in France. They
| had no trial. Their officers killed
| them. Walmer was a sergeant. Her
bert Sutton, HOLSTER, Cal, can fur
nish evidence that a private named
+! Frye, member of the One Hundred
and Ninth infantry, conscientious
! objector, refused to carry a pack
! and the officer over him had him
stabbed with a bayonet. Henry E.
! Dunn, 623 Northwest street, Indian
| apolis, witnessed the ; nging of a
soldier who enlisted from Georgia.
| And the scaffold was erected several
days in advance of the hanging. On
the morning of the hanging the
soldier was ordered to stand in front
of the gallows for an hour. He was
dropped from the scaffold three times
and tortured intensely for thirty
minutes.
"W. II. Johnson, Columbia, S. c.,
knows that two men were shot and
killed in France without trial. George
Marlborough, professor of a local
school of Roanoke, Ala, will swear
| that an American soldier was exc
| cuted in France without court-mar-
tial and killed at the order of a
major"