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Show CAPTAIN CLAIMS FALSE ARREST ANDFILES SUIT COLTJMB1 S. O., Aujr. 1 o. On the eve of his departure for Fort Sam Houston, where he is to become head of the militia bureau, southwestern department, Colonel Franklin O Johnson, John-son, commandant at the Columbus barracks war, made defendant tnli n a $25,000 damage Biiit filed in the local s'ate courts by Francis M Doyle former captain in the quar-ermaster's quar-ermaster's deparment under Colonel Johnson. Doyle allies false arrest. The damape suit a the culmination of court martial proceeding Instituted by Colonel Johnson aeajnst Captain Doyle early last spring In which Doyle was charged witii conduct unbecoming an officer He was under arrest a1 'he baracks for five months Doyle, as counsel for a private who was to be tried by a special court, demanded a general court, and beiiiK refused by Colonel Johnson, appealed to th" com , mander "f the central department at Chicago This resulted In Doyle being be-ing arrested Doyle was found guilty b a peneral ! court, but the decision was reversed !;. .Major General Leonard Wood, com mander of the central department at Chicago, and ordered reinstated. Doyle soon thereafter applied for honorable hon-orable discharge which was granted. |