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Show OFFICER GIVEN PRISONSENTENCE Lieutenant Who Cut Down Alsace Shoemaker With Sabre to Serve 43 Days. Strassburg, Dec. 19 A cntence of forty-three days imprison ment was pronounced b ya court martial toda on Lieutenant Baron Yon Forstner of the Ninety-ninth Infantry for cutting dow n with his sabre a lame shoemaker shoemak-er in Znbern. Alsace, on December 2 The charge brought against him was wilful assault and causing great todlly harm by the illegal use of a weapon." Lieutenant Von Forstner was the ofilcer who brought about tho recent troubles between the military and Chilian populaUon of Zabern by mak lag Insulting remarks In regard to the Alsatian citizens when he addressed ad-dressed the recruits of his command The Zabern Incident caused a govern-meal govern-meal crisis In parliament. |