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Show Records In the Father Augustin Case. The secretary of war has sent to the senate records of courtsmartial held in the Philippines since the military mili-tary occupation of those islands by the United States, including the cases ol General Smith and Major Glenn. Tha transcript also covers the opinion by the attorney general in the case oi Captain C. M. Brownell of the Sixth infantry, charged with ordering tha punishment which resulted in tha death at Banate of Father Augustin. in which the attorney general found that Brownell could only have been tried by courtmartial, and that now that he is out of the service and peace has been proclaimed n the Philippines he is not subject to trial by a court of that character. |