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Show Colonel Gets 10-Year Term For $200,000 Gem Theft YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. An army court-martial convicted Col. Edward Ed-ward J. Murray of misappropriating misappropriat-ing $200,000 in diamonds and other jewels while he was occupation custodian cus-todian of the Bank of Japan. The court sentenced Murray to 10 years at hard labor and dishonorable discharge dis-charge from the service. The court of seven generals and one colonel found the Palo Alto, Chlif., officer guilty of all six specifications speci-fications including violating of the 95th article of war, misappropriating misappropriat-ing the jewels from stocks seized by the American army from the Japanese Japa-nese government, smuggling them into United States and falsifying customs declarations. Judgment was passed after the court panel deliberated 90 minutes. The court then recessed and returned re-turned its judgment of punishment little more than three hours later. Maj. Gen. William C. Chase, court president, asked during the deliberation of punishment if the trial judge advocate had anything more to offer. The judge advocate read Murray's "charge sheet" with the greying slightly built defendant present. It showed Murray had been a' full colonel since 1937 with no previous conviction, and was the custodian of the 8th army treasure vaults of the Bank of Japan. Asked if the sheet was substantially substan-tially correct, Murray blushed and faltered. "I think that's correct," he said. The court had valued the 500 diamonds dia-monds and other gems found in his possession in San Francisco at $84, 000, . but diamond experts listed their market price at approximately approxi-mately $200,000. j |
