Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-15 | Page 3 | Meriwether Sentence Fixed

confinement to the limit of naval academy washington dec 12 midshipman minor meriwether Merl wether jr who was tried by court martial for causing the death of midshipman branch has been sentenced to confinement to the limit of the naval academy for a period of one year and to be publicly reprimanded by the secretary of tho navy secretary bonaparte has ordered that the cebo carried chato much of the penalty as would debar the accused from on any practice ship attached to the academy be remitted the full text of the findings will be made public later in the day representative broussard of louisiana who had a conference with tha secretary this morning regarding the caad after reading the findings announced that he VM entirely satisfied them i