Show UlmER ASSERTS HUNDREDS SAW SA HANGINGS Hears Char Charge M Men n Were Drugged Prior to Their Execution w WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jan ran 5 Further Further r mony relating to the hanging o of ot f merican rican soldiers at sur Is rea france ranee ce was presented today to the nate e committee investigating charges Senator Watson Vatson Democrat Georgia a r soldiers sol lers had been executed with ut trial Herbert L L. Cadenhead o of ot fl Miss a former service man man red he had witnessed ed ten o or orve r wove ve executions at sur Is while rl aged in transporting German prisMs pris- pris ners Ms s by truck In the vicinity of ot that tha t lace Sar ar department records previously u to the committee showed bat jat t two soldiers were hanged at Istine Is- Is jr tine after conviction by general and gave the trial lons ens s in do the A. A E. E F. F as eleven al all t pter r formal trial before military Cadenhead C did not know whether r i any of the th men he met their v. v death saw hanged haq h had a ac without trial He deh described de- de dehe scribed In detail the h he tal executions which claimed to have wi v r one of them being a lieutenant who Cadenhead Caden- Caden Cadenhead head said had been charged with sault i as assault assault as- as upon a year old girl Cadenhead produced several small Photographs hero u of Purported hanging scenes Your main criticism about the ex execution ex- ex execution a as j set forth In your letter to Senator Watson Vatson was that the French people people should not have been permitted to see them 1 Chairman Brandegee asked I Yes sir See any barbarity barbarity- CHARGES DRUGS USED No The only thing I saw was th that t some of jot the men hanged were doped Senator Overman Democrat North Carolina wanted to know who I was with Cadenhead ad when he ho looked o on atthe at atthe atthe the executions How many were present at the first five hangings that y you U saw saw asked Colonel Bethel About or French people and soldiers You saw the other five or seven ex exI executions ex- ex from a truck tuck while hauling I German prisoners I Yes When we saw a h hanging nging from the road we wo stopped to look I Cadenhead declared he had no feeling feelIng feelIng feel- feel j Ing against officers and that he voluntarily voluntarily vol vol- offered to come forward after seeing the statement printed that there f were only two hangings at sur Is tilleI tilleI tille I I had seen more than that he said i and It seemed to tome me that some officers off off- i cers were guilty i Senator Brandegee asked if Cadent Cadenhead Caden Caden- I head could produce witnesses to support support support sup sup- port his statement He mentioned I Andrew Saloon but explained that I the spelling was and that he r. lived Cd at at atE E dist LOn LOn-g Long I Island lad Che Che- lume will be summoned MORE OPIE CHARGES Two witnesses called to testify as to charges that Major L. L Ople Opie of Staunton Va had shot two soldiers In France rance were exec used after atter It was developed they had no personal knowledge knowl knowl- edge edgo of the matter A moment later however Lemuel O. O Smith of Dublin Va who vho has beer been I in an institution for the insane since the war declared he saw Major Opio Ople shoot a soldier While Whilo in a dugout with three comrades comrades com com- rades and four German prisoners said Smith I saw Major Ople take a gun sun and deliberately shoot a man The man Opio Ople shot was William Woolwine Opi was ten steps from Woolwine What did Major Ople Opie say he was wall asked He lie said I shot him take him out What was said before the shooting shootIng shootIng shoot- shoot Ing Not a word was passed Major Ople Opie gave no reason How many shots were fired 1 One It hit Woolwine In the chest hest He was dead when we picked him up up |