Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-28
Staying OF SOLDIER
IS LAID TO COLONEL


| charge Lat Colonel Paul Malone
now stationed at Camp Benning
Ca, shot and killed a soldier in
France because he could not keer
no with his command, was botf
made and denied L fore senate
committee investigating alleged IL
legal hangings.
When Colonel r. G. Langdon, of
the army war college was called, he
declared that in his service Of more
than two years overseas he never
heard Of an officer shooting a SOL
der. AS the examination proceeded,
and after Colonel Malone's name had
| been mentioned, Chairman Brande-
gee presented a letter from w. H.
NeWbold, an attorney of Chester, S.
c., saying that Ivey Henderson, OF
that city, had stated that he saw
Colonel Malone shoot the soldier and
that Colonel Langdon and others
were present. The letter added that
Colonel Langdon had reported his
brother officer, who was given
twelve dement's.
Col. Langdon declared there was
no demerits and that later Malone
was promoted to the rank of briga-
der general.
.Did you see Colonel Malone at
tempt to ride his horse oyer sol
diers?" Chairman Brandegeel asked.
"No but I saw him ride behind
some stragglers in urging them to
speed up"
The colonel said that Henderson
was his orderly "He was not very
bright" the witness said, "and pos
sibly he thinks what he says is the
| truth. But l believe he is laboring
! under some mental condition which,
when he thinks what he says is true,
| it did not actually happen"
Colonel w. r. Sample, of Knox
vile, Tenn, a brigadier general in
4 charge of the advance section, serv-
| ice of supply, testified in the area I'M
der his supervision there were four
hangings. He knew of no others and
declared he never heard Of a lynch
| ing or the shooting of an enlisted
man by an officer.
Watson Asks Qupestions
Discussing court-martial cases and
punishment of soldiers, Senator Wat
son, Democrat, Georgia, asked Col-
onel Sample, how it was, as charged
by former Senator Chamberlain, that
| a man vas given twenty years for
being absent without leave"
ct don't believe it' the colonel
replied. 'There must have been
some other charge"
"Then how does it happen, as Sen
ator Chamberlain said, that soldier
was punished for writing him GER
! tain. things from France?''
military law required that GER
| tain things be not written home. II
soldier violated that order he was
subject to punishment.
Colonel Sample was shown pho
| tograph of hanging and asked it
| it could have been mailed.
'rI think So" he replied, adding
| that soldiers could have written
home about executions providing
names and places were not given.
The photograph bf the hanging
| was produced by Carl c. Morgan,
Of Uniontown, Ala, who declared he
bought it. Senator Watson charged
that Frenchmen in selling the pic.
lures "were concentrating the
hanging of American soldiers"
| Mrs. Mary Ellen Furnish, of Mem
phis, Tenn, welfare worker over
seas, declared there was always a
big crowd for the hanging at Is-Sur.
Tile, two of which took place there.
i 1--WE always had big rush at
/ the canteen afterwards she said.
did you ever hear of soldiers be-
ing hanged at Is-Sur-Tille without
trial?" Chairman Brandegee asked.
81 did not"
Senator Watson asked Mrs. Fur
bish if she wrote home about the
hangings.
mo, SIR" she said. II, was gen.
orally too tired and busy to write"
Mrs. Kurdish declared it was
Shocking" to see how soldiers turn
/ ed out to witness the hangings,
| climbing trees, Iences and everything
else to get a better view.
Declaration that he had been rob-
bed and discharged as an employee of
the veterans bureau after testifying
in the senate investigation of illegal
| soldier hangingS was made by
Charles P. Green of Minneapolis, in
letters and kilograms received by
Senator Watson and TO the commit
tee.
! Suitcase Stolen
Green declared in his commune
cations that en- route to his home
American Legion friends" at Gin.
cinnati had stolen his suitcase con.
tanning his army discharges. decora.
tionS and other documents. On reach.
iAg Minneapolis, he charged, he was
informed by the veterans bureau
office there that his services were
no longer required.
Senator Watson, in presenting the
charges said he knew nothing OF
the circumstances and did not con.
tend that they demanded committee
action, but added that he would ask
Director Forbes, of the bureau, for
a report.
In trying to place Green, who had
testified that the bodies of nine sol
dlers killed by the military police
had been sent to hospital at Cha
teau RouX France, chairman Bran
degee recalled to committee mem
bers that Green was the witness who
! declared on the stand that Genera
Pershing was "a liar" and that he
would rather belong to the I. w. w
than to the American legion.
Three doctors attached to the Cha
teau Roux hospital testified yester
day there was truth in Green's
charges as to the nine bodies.
CHARGE IS DENIED
BY BUREAU MANAGER
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Jan. 90
"Chas. P. Green could never be dis
charged by the veterans bureau, be
cause helnever has been an employe
of it," G! D. Hibbard, Northwest
district mana ger said tndn,r II, noro