Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-10-29 | Page 2 | Life Imprisonment

I LIFE IMPRISONMENT I Soldier Who Killed Companions Is Sentenced j Manila Oct 1 Private Mike Ikc Beecham Ot of th First cavalry e nall who ran amuck at Camp last May Mar and killed four of ot his comrades comrade was as sentenced to toIlIe tile life Imprisonment today by the t t court ct urt before which he be appeared Th court took wok t the view that the crime was as unpremeditated l li i and the of or a sudden fit of oC anger Under the Spanish law Ia therefore z the court held that the circumstances In the th case did tilt not warrant the Infliction of oC the th death penalty Beecham will wilt appeal from this sentence although gh the supreme court to which bleh his appeal ap al must be b directed has the power to t substitute the death penalty