Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-04 | Page 18 | Colonel Williams Asks for Release

COLONEL WILLIAMS ASKS FOR RELEASE Retired Army Officer, Commandant of Tliird War Prison Barracks, Desires De-sires to Leave Position. Colonel Arthur Williams, commandant A of the Third war prison barracks at Fort Douglas, has applied to the war department depart-ment for relief from duty at the prison camp. Colonel Williams, who is a retired officer of-ficer of the regular army, was living in retirement at Los Angeles when he was called into the active service at the out- .- break of the war with Germany and assigned as-signed to duty as commandant of the prison camp at Fort Douglas. The colonel supervised construction of the camp and has administered the af- , fairs of the prison since U was put Into active use. Captain Stephen Abbott, who has been the colonel's adjutant. was recently granted a release from duty at the camp and was assigned as military instructor ) at the Utah Agricultural college. He expects to assume his new duties about September 13.