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Show PRISON FOR SOLDIER v WHO KILLED A MAN WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. Private Jerry Ward, attached to A company, first separate battalion of negro troops of the district national guard, has been sentenced to dismissal from the service and three years at hard labor for Andrew J. Cooper, an aged carpenter, car-penter, at the headquarters training camp here last October 12. The verdict of the court martial was disapproved as inadequate by Brigadier Briga-dier General Eli D. Hoyle, commanding command-ing the eastern department, but the court refused to amend it and General Gen-eral Hoyle finally approved it, he said, only in order that the soldier should not "escape deserved punishment." Cooper, in going to work at the camp tried to enter by a short cut instead in-stead of through the main gate and it was in evidence at the trial that Ward, who was on guard duty, knocked him down an embankment and when he started up again shot and killed him. The court held the act was involuntary involun-tary manslaughter under the articles of war. |