Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-22 | Page 14 | Camp Lewis Man Found Guilty of Insubordination

CAMP LEWIS MAN FOUND GUILTY OF INSUBORDINATION 4 Special to The Tribune, CAMP LEWTS, Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 21. Avery H. Hendricks. A battery, 347th field artillery, whose home address wotdd not be divulged, was today sentenced to two and one-half years at hard labor, given a dishonorable discharge from the army and made to forfeit all pay. He had been convicted for insubordination before a court-martial at Camp Lewis. He was charged specifically with leaving the place of assembly for medical examination exam-ination without authority; leaving the ranks without permission when marching from the base hospital; taking off his sTioes when ordered to keep them on, and refusing to execute double time at physical physi-cal drill. He was found guiltv on all charges. John A. Walsh of Oakland, Cal., despondent over his enforced service In the army and illness, a member of the military police, shot and killed himself last evening in his barracks at Camp Lewis. He was 25 years old. and has a sister, Elizabeth Walsh, at Oakland. P insured himself for $10,000 fifteen day I ego. He was to have been t ransf erred from the military police next week.