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Show Willi LETTERS IE ! SENT CAPT. DETZEB, Exonerated Officer Told Not to Show Himself in Certain Mid- 1 die Western States NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Simultaneously Simultaneous-ly -with the announcement at Gover-! nor's Island that Captain Karl W. Det-zer Det-zer had been acquitted by a court mar tial of charges of cruelty to American soldiers at Lcmnns. it became known that the exonerated officer had received re-ceived several threatening letters warning him not to show himself in certain middle western cities. Captain Detzer was handed a letter from Lieut. Gen. Robert Loo Bullard, commander of the department of the east, informing him that the general court martial which since December 10, 3919, has boon hearing evidence of his alleged brutality to overseas men, had found him "not guilty on all charges and all specifications." The court of officers several days ago reached a verdict in less than ten minutes. min-utes. The finding, however, was withheld with-held until yesterday. Gaptain Detzer declared the threats he has received will not deter him from going west to rind the writors of them. The letters were mniled in Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis. |