Show SENTENCE REMITTED 0 BY BAKER Lawrence Fac Faced d 20 Years' Years Imprisonment i Before Action Associated By Associated Press NEW NEV YORK Dec 26 Secretary Secretary of War Baker today remitted the twenty- twenty year car sentence Imposed upon Private Lawrence Lawrence of New York the only member of the American expeditionary expeditionary expeditionary ex ex- force to be convicted of treason according to Word word ord received from Washington bY it Representative Isaac Siegel of New York who Interested interested interested inter Inter- ested himself in the lads lad's case I who served in the medical medical medical medi medi- cal department Ninth r Infantry Second Second second Sec Sec- ond division was convicted of having supplied military information of value to the Germans while a prisoner of war He was in i Coblenz after having rejoined tote the t. t American army after the armistice and his sentence was approved by by- general headquarters According to Mr Siegel who went over the record in the case with Provost Provost Pro Pro- ost Marshal General General- Crowder ro it was not shown that the answers which gave the r Germans were true and only one witness Captain I William II II Gordon captured with him testified against him whereas two witnesses are nee needed ed before an American Amen Ameri- t I can can be legally convicted of treason trea trea- I son |