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Show COURT MARTIAL ON MURDER CHARGE SAX PIKGO, Cal., Dec. 22. "Lieutenant Halvcr V. Peny, accused of the murder of Captain Abraham Posner, Twenty-first Twenty-first infantry, near Camp Kearny, December De-cember 2., is to face a court martial there tomorrow. He ha sbeen in jail here. According to a purported confession. Pern- took the captain in his automobile the nieht of December 1, ostensibly to drive to camp, but went instead to a lonely spot, where he fired two shots into the captain's body. He left the dying man beside the road and drove to Dos Angeles, in which vicinity he was arrested arrest-ed 'the following day. According to his alleged confession, Perrv shot the captain because of his supposed overbearing attitude. Uieutenant Perry formerly lived in Elizabethton, Tcnn. |