Show CAPTAIN DENIES DUN DUNSAN DUNER ER CHARGES SA SAN FRA FRANCISCO CISCO Jan 6 Captain Captain Russell P. P Tyler who was In charge of the prison camp at Bassens last night France during the war the adjutant general of telegraphed phed bed denying statements made the army yesterday before the senate Investigating Investigating investigating gating committee by Edwin Duner of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco Captain T Tylers Tyler's lers telegram M said Fitzgerald killed It was I 1 saw purely purel an an accident Fitzgerald was standing in the mess line An unruly was trying to take a prisoner rifle negro ro away from a sergeant The rifle exploded Fitzgerald was accidentally accidentally acci- acci dentally I killed by the stra stray bullet Witnesses to the shooting were tal taken en before a a. board of inquiry which found Fitzgeralds Fitzgerald's s 's death accidental generals general's department of The The- inspector tho the base made an independent investigation investigation and sustained this verdict confinement There was no solitary a at t the tho camp There vere no lieutenants under me at the camp and I never held that rank 1 The telegram added that testimony was grossly exaggerated and that no instance had come to toT T Tylers Tyler's attention wh where re soldiers were convicted or hanged in France without without with with- out trial Amplifying his telegram in a a. verbal verbal verbal ver ver- bal statement Tyler declared he w was s snot not acquainted with Duner and did not remember- remember him as a prisoner at atthe atthe atthe the Bassens camp He continued Part of the time while in France I was wis a member of the general court court- martial of base section No 2 2 While on this cou there was only one man convicted and sentenced to tobe tobe tobe be hanged He was a a. negro named Jackson who had been found guilty I of murdering two white soldiers when they tried to take him prisoner as asa asa asa a deserter and on a statutory charge I do o not know whether the death sentence sentence sen sen- tence was carried out My ly reason for wiring the adjutant general of ot the army armr repudiating Duner's Dunets testimony is in n order to correct correct correct cor cor- I the false impression that he made madeo o of conditions a at the Bassens camp Having been In ill charge during the time that the alleged atrocities were supposed to have occurred I 1 deemed it my duty to give my views as Duner's charges were a direct reflection reflection reflection tion against m my management of the t I prison |