The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-07

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Corps, Morris Field, Charlotte,
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Colonel John A. Wheeler,
Ordnance Dept. Hq, Third Air
Force Tampa, Fla.
Colonel James f. Duke, Jr.,
Air Corps Army Air Base. Biz
mnahdm, Ala.
Colonel Arthur l. Ennis, Air
Corps, Hq, Third Air Force,
Tampa, Fla.
Colonel Oliver H. Stout. Air
Corps Army Air Base, Green
Vile, S. c.
Colonel Clarence r Mower,
Air Corps, kellogg Field, Battle
Greek. Mich
Colonel Kenneth G. Gould, .
Medical Corps, Hunter Field,
Savannah, Ga
Lieutenant Colonel Charles II.
Mcdonald, Judge Advocate Cen
erals Dept, Sclfridge + lie d,
Mich, law member.
Pvt. McRae, now recovered |
from the pistol wounds inflicted
ON him May 5, was present in
the courtroom briefly. He told
newSmcn that Il don't feel So
good My side still hurts a lot"
SOUGHT PISTOL
Only once during Mondays
proceedings did reference to the
McRae shooting throw new light
on the incident which set off the
sweeping probe OF Army adj
ministrative affairs last May.
The reference arose during
the testimony Of Lieut.. Col. Paul
A. Petrce, army psychiatrist at
tachcd 20 Percy Jones General
Hospital. i'm Battle Creek, where
Col. Colman was taken on the
afternoon following the shoot
ing. Col. Pctree told the court
that Col. Colman appeared un-
able to trace the events Of the
preceding evening but did men
. ton that he had gone 10 the
headquarters building TO get
one of two revolvers he had left
there"
Col. Petree refused TO express
an opinion as TO whether Col.
/ Colman was or was not respon-
sible for his actions of the night
of the shooting He said Col.
Colman had mentioned drinking
before, or at, a picnic held on
/ May 4. He said his eXamina-
tions indicated that Col. Col
man was suffering from psyche
neurosis reflected in anxiety,
fear and obsessions. He said he
had no positive opinion as TO
whether Col. Colman had suf-
fered from amnesia.
BELIEVED DRUNK
Major John Lukas. OF the Sell
/ fridge Field station hospital, told
the nine colonies that he had
been called to Col. Colman's
: quarters at about a. m. on May
/ 5 whore he found the then COM
handing officer of the base ex-
4 hibiting blood-shot eyes, an UNI
I steady gait and rejecting what
/ he, at the time. took to be a
state OF intoxication. Questioned
at TO whether that would be his
diagnosis if confronted by the
same facts today he said he
couldn't say =,
TREATED SINCE 1941
The first witness called by
the defense, Dr. Raymond G.
Waggoner, psychiatry professor
az the University of Michigan
and director of the Neuropsychi-
atric institute at Ann Arbor,
stated hc examined Col. Colman
in October, 1871. lie said that
tho Colonel complained OF eX-
Htrcmc- Tension headaches and
dizziness.
DR.. Waggoner testified that he
received letter from Colman
on May !, the day before the
shooting OF tho Negro private,
William II. McRae, 24-year-old
soldier chauffeur at the base,
stating that Colman was suffer-
ing from headaches and tight
cnlug" IN the back OF tho neck.
Lieut.. Col. Charles r. Ray
burn OF Hunter Field, Savannah,
Ga. psychiatrist, called in 20
examine Col. Colman on July
25, stated he made an extensive
study of the history of Colmans
ailmeut and found he had been
a n der treatment since 1899
when he was a patient in Walter