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Show EXCORIATES WALLER. Jttdgc-Advocnto Denounces tho Meth. ods Adopted by the Major ln Selecting Se-lecting Prisoners to Be Shot. Manila, April 12 Tho Judge-advocate, Henry 1. Kingsbury, replied today to-day tu tho supimltLg up beforo tho court-martial )cslerdny of Capt. Arthur Ar-thur T. Mailx, lepresentlng MuJ Littleton Lit-tleton W. T Wuller, who Is being tried for executing natives' or Hum-ir without trial. MaJ Klugsbuiy made nn eloquent elo-quent address Ho contended that MnJ Wnller wns under military nnd not martial law, and that thero wns nothing In the conduct of the men who weie shot that was deserving of nuch punishment rlho Judge-advocato blamed MnJ Waller himself for tho disasters which befell the marines nnd accused him nf ubiiiidnnlng ten help-Ictw help-Ictw comrades, "who-u bones wero now blenching nu tho banks of tho Liming," Li-ming," to dlo of hunger. Tho Judge-ndvocnle'H denunciation of tho methods by which the pilsoners who weio lo bo shot wero chosen, was dramatic. 'I hoy weio lined up, he said, ' for tho ralllo of death, at tho nolo will and pleasure of Prlvnto Davis, a marine, who wns Judgo and prosecutor, prosecu-tor, nnd professor of many arms" He referred to DcvIsm testimony In terms of withering ncorn, accused MaJ Waller Wal-ler of listening to the dlctiten nt ambition ambi-tion mil not to the dictates of duty, asserted that the nntlves, according to tho evidence, acted, In many Instnnccs, In ft hlghl) commendable manner, nnd declare I that their falthfulnera nnd not their treachery had been disclosed before the court ('apt. Marlx requested permission to make a short reply. Ho protested Htiongly ngnlrwt criticism of the way In which MaJ Waller had conducted the campaign, which, ho suld, wns outside out-side tho case, and ugaln Insisted that martlul law ruled by tho mere naturo of tho eondltlonn, Tho couit deliberated moro than half un hour. No decision was announced. |