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Show SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HUNS American Youth Charged with Taking i Part in Revolt. London. Paul R. DeMott, 22, an American, claiming to be a journalist, has been sentenced to death by a drumhead court-martial for participating participat-ing in the revolution In the Ruhr district. dis-trict. Execution of the sentence, how, ever, has been deferred because of President Ebert's order that death sentences of drumhead courts-martial must not be carried out until he has had an opportunity to review the findings find-ings and countersign the decree. . General Kabisch, commanding this eector, laid the papers in DeMott's case before an officer of the American Ameri-can general staff here Saturday. The young American was captured with arms in his possession near Mulhelm in an automobile, together with several sev-eral revolutionary leaders. |