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Show War Secretary's Son Executed Midshipman Spencer, son of a secretary sec-retary of war, Boatswain Samuel Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small were suspected of mutiny on the brig Somers in 1842. Alexander Sli-dell Sli-dell Mackenzie was in command, and they were executed. Midshipman Midship-man Spencer's father was secretary of war, and there waa a great deal of sympathy for him and amazement amaze-ment at the extreme act of discipline, disci-pline, but the command was exonerated exon-erated by a court of inquiry and court-martial. |