| Show tOt p 0 0 0 0 tt 0 Q 0 0 0 I c tOt 0 C ENEMY SPY Spy RELEASED VETS HELD HELD- IN PRISON FORMER I INI SOLDIERS IN LEAVENWORTH LEA I No Slackers or I W W Wj Members Behind U S Bars CASES REVIEWED Some Deserve Clemency Others Hard Boiled Offenders By GEORGE NE Service Writer Writer Writer- Kas Ka March 4 LEA L t A A box of ot cigars cigar came In Inthe Inthe Inthe the mail mall to the tho United States peni penitentiary here hero It was 8 addressed to Adrian Tay Tab Taylor lor br chief prisoner clerk and Ir- Ir private secretary toVar to Var War Warden Varden aro den don Biddle BIddIe Taylor enlisted In the tho army when hen the war ar started and fought on halt half a dozen sectors of the tho front and In the tho five ears sinco he has bos been a prisoner there thero hant been one scratch cratch on hi his rec- rec record record rec record I ord He lie ho has 81 80 ears yet to Ben c e The Tho sender of ot the cl cigars ars was as Lothar Witzke the only enemy spy I In the United States tate who ho was son son- sen sentenced to death during the war wor I il He Io had stirred up hostility In Max Mex- MexIco leo Ico and ond was as considered a 0 potential d and a n menace He Ho as- as es escaped once and wa was regarded a as extremely dangerous The Tho death sentence was commuted to life uto in 10 inthe Inthe the however and late lat Noi No ember heas he was as released The alien spy py free and ond to his remembering a prison ac- ac ac acquaintance with a gift gUt I The Tle loal 1001 soldier and obedient prisoner left I behInd the walls wallal 1 fa Tailors lor s case cne probably looks the worst on lal records record and anti looks look the most worthy orthy of ot clemenc clemency to those personally acquainted with It of almost any In the tho list lit SERIOUS CHARGE The charge chargo Is assault upon an on aged aed woman oman In Taylor s story atory Is that he heard a commotion In n II house houe one night It was as a house houe not of ot the best reputation tation and was frequented by sol sol- sol soldiers diers diere Ta Tn lor ran in and ond found two soldiers struggling ii with ith the pro pro- pro proprietress He no fought ought with them they fled ned and he lifted lilted the old woman from where she he had fallen on the floor Then the French gendarmes came in Upon their testimony he was and sentenced by court martial inertial The Tho victim never identified him the thc version Indicated by bv circumstances and accepted by the court I li ii coi tOI reel Perhaps Ta fa lor lors good conduct before and since cince the Incident I Is a pose flose and a w fraud But ButIn Butin ButIn In a cl 11 court with Innocence presumed until guilt Is pro Cd there I Is at least a B chance chanc that the I findings might have hava been different UI UP Ta fa lor I Is among or o war time war militar prisoners here Who tho ho have been examined at t clo close range ranga by Janice James H i and Ma- Ma Ma a jor mr Frank K IC Ro sent ent from fo for th the PUI purpose Over at the bar bar- barracks bar barracks racks at rort Fort Leavenworth orth there are aro other military prisoners who hn lice fice sentences of ot th file e ears oara or longer And there are other all but for for- forgotten for forgotten gotten war time at ot Allan Atlan Atlanta ta and Island Wash ash and Fort Jav 0 Y 1 who are now bo- bo being Iny bc-Iny ing ron considered td red I While these remain In prIson prIson- prison patriotic men 1 who ho holot got lot Into trouble while In uniform the uniform the highways Of the tho earth parth are ar onen men tn te the slackers and nd the IV I W V VV W V v and enemy pl spies s who ore are beneficiaries of sweeping clemency Not one remains In fed fed- fed federal oral eral prison K EJ KEJR IJ ROES RDE'S R DENS DEN'S LIFE I There Is 1 i a 0 life In the penitentiary here who sa saved sated ed the life lito of t Warden DIddle Biddle twice tIco t Ico 1 when hen to him from behind There Thelo Is a bo boy con convicted of ot mur- mur mur murder der who struck truck a comrade comrado with wilt n a knife In the dark by bv accident and the boy already had won on a croix de guerre 1 1 i n striking char char- of many prisoners Meny M committed their In the un- un Unaccustomed un accustomed conditio conditions overseas duo dire largely larely to the easily obtained wino Ino and cognac In om some cases caos the Iho severity of ot the seems due to the court desire to make an Impression I abroad with tho the ss s of or Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican discipline And some Borne of ot the prisoners alo ao sImply hard boiled There seems to be no probability ot of blanket amnesty for all But Dut there theres there's a 0 feverish te hope that the visit of th the tl two 0 war department officers will mean some ome of the sol soldiers I diers diere 1 within will join the th tb t |
