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Show NEGROES El 1 ! DOWN OFFICER; . ! Infantry Misled by Idea That Houston Mob Was Coming Com-ing to Camp. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 2. Testl-1 fying at the court martial hero today i of sixty-three negro soldiers of the 24 th infantry, charged with mutiny, murder J and rioting as a result of the shooting up at Houston, August 23. last, Second Sec-ond Lieutenant Charles C. Snyder, who was in charge of K Company of the Twenty-fourth, said ho was knocked i down by negroes and thrown out of tho ammunition tent when he tried to prevent pre-vent them from obtaining ammunition. ammuni-tion. Aftor securing the ammunition there was sorao shooting ir. the camp. When tho negroes left in the direction of Houston. Snyder said that just before the shooting took place in camp that some negroes in the end of tho camp toward town shouted "hero comes the mob! Got your guns!" Ho supposed the negroes thought a mob of civilians was coming out from Houston, ho added. |