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Show FOUR CHARGES IN TEXAS NEGRO RIOTS SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. HO. Four charge, one containing two specifications, specifica-tions, will be faced by the sixty-four negroes ne-groes of the Twenty-fourth Infantry chargred with participating" in the riots at Houston, Texas, in which fourteen , persons were killed, August '23, when i the court-martial of the negroes opens! here Thursday. Charge one is the allegation that the defendants disobeyed a lawful command ; to remain in camp; the second specification specifica-tion is that of wilfully disobeying an order or-der to turn In their arms and ammunition. ammuni-tion. Charge two is that of mutiny "against pnthority of Major K. S. Snow and other officers." and that the defendants broke "out of camp with the Intent of marching march-ing upon the city of Houston." Charge three specifies that the defen-dants defen-dants wilfully killed fourteen persons. Charge four alleges felonious assaults on i eight others. There will be one trial and one record, but a finding will be made separately for each defendant and separate findings of, punishment for each if found guilty. The J number of defendants includes a ser- geant, four corporals, two cooks, eight ; first-class privates, forty -eight privates i and one bugler. |