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Show FORTY. COLORED MEN! TRIAL Enlisted Members of 24th Infantry In-fantry Before Court Martial at San Antonio. THIRD REVIEW OPENS i General Barth Heads Trial Major Sutphin to Be the Judge-Advocate. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. 18. Forty enlisted men of the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth infantry, colored, went to trial before a court martial here today on j charges of murder and mutiny. It is the third court martial to be convened as a result of the crimes committed at Houston the night of August 23, when twenty persons were shot to death and others wero injured in a riot of the j Third battalion of the Twenty-fourth infantry. At the first court martial, sixty-three defendants wero tried. Thirteen were found guilty and hanged while forty -five were sentenced to imprisonment, many of them for life terms. Five were I acquitted and restored to their organ- izationsv At the second trial fifteen were tried and all convicted. Five wero sentenced to be hanged and aro now t in the cavalry guard houso at Fort Sam Houston, awaiting action by the president who is reviewing the case. The other ten were sentenced to prison. pris-on. Shortly after the execution of the engroes convicted in the first court martial, an order was issued from Washington that no more prisoners should be executed until their cases had been reviewed fully by- the war department. de-partment. The court which will try the negroes on trial today is headed by Brigadler- uenerai unaries n. uarth, national army. Major Dudley V. Sutphin, pudge advocate's reserve corps, will be judge-advocate judge-advocate at the trial. There are four charges against each of tho prisoners mutiny, murder, assault as-sault to murder and wilfully disobeying disobey-ing orders. All of the men hold in stockade at Fort Bliss since the riot have been sent back to their organizations except ex-cept a few held as witnosses. oo |