Show H jj I OffiCERS i EXONERATED i I i Navy Court of Inquiry t Holds Sutton Responsible sible for His Death I D c August iS Sutton Sulton is directly and f for his own I which was wa self either hllen I or In ati an effort to lo shoot ono one of tho persons restraining him and Ws his i death was not cuis caus d b by any other In InI InJury I Jury jur whatever This Is the of tho navy court i I of oC Inquiry for some Borne weeks has f I had wider Investigation Iho causo or of orI I tho death at naval In October 1007 or of Second i ant James N K Sutton or of the tho U S ma maI I I corps which verdict has been ap api i ii b by the judge ad v ate or of the n y v Il and d by br Beekman S rop assistant and amI acting secretary or of orthe the naY navy Th Court also LISO finds That i i LicuL ill in his dut duty as a son sen senI I k br present under Up U S regulations 1909 in 4 ting Sutton button to run away and aUlI 0 i arm himself nd of calling on onI I those present for 01 assistance and fol following following lowing Sutton preventing hun him from arming himself b by force foree If and him over oer to thu tho thoI I custody ly ot Of the officer o of the day dar f That Bean Bevan officer o of thu tho guard lard failed In his duty as officer of In not nOI disarming LicuL I by force torce while lii in of his It tent That Willing the o of 1 t In his dut duty as of the da day In III not Immediately assist I OJ In III to disarm Sutton when he arrived on the scene before the tho fatal shot was fired I That to of wIlful murder and conspiracy to conceal it made b bi by bythe i the Mrs Sutton mother of Sutton are purely Imaginary and unsupported bY oven a shadow of ovid evidence once truth or re reason lSon The court recommends ho how ever that In view of the youth routh an and decided Inexperience of LI Willing and Bevan at the ilio time and of the altogether unusual conditions of excitement threats and danger during the tho fra that thai no o fur ther be taken The report Is signed by J Hood U S N president of the boarI and Henr major U 11 US S corps judge advocate r Commander Hood also flied filed a report In which he says sars he con concurs conI I curs In the majorIty report and In ad addition 1 he Js Is of the opinion that Lieu Lieutenants tenants Utley Adams 1 inS ing wid Bevan showed a I lack lacle of oC knowledge of their duties and oblIgations as officers holding commis commissions commissions In the marIne corps and the testimony concerning t the e whole de deplorable affair Indicates a state exIst exIstIng ins Ing In the marIne or of ap lIca tion to the service serIce and I argues strongly against the practice of commissioning an putting Into post lions of re voting mon with without lUi out proper previous training He Is also or of the thc that Lieu Lieutenants i tenants Willing Bevan and Utley should hould have been brought to at atthe atthe the time for neglect ot of duty Lieuten 7 I ants Adams and I received milder or en eni engaging I i in a brawl unbecoming officer j and and ne h concurs in the thc I c II recommendation that no further pro pio lI be taen at HII this limo timo unIv onh hop ho j cause of their youth at anI nt at that time and because o of their ho bo lug In a sense the tho victims of a 86 sy tern for they themselves are II not noL responsible |