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Show I MORE EVIDENCE OF BRUTALITY OFCAPTAIN vKW VORK. Dec. 11 Cap:: in K I W PeWT. charsed wl:h hniialii;. to B' risen in Franc, on several occa-linni occa-linni ftood by with a pistol in one Lnd and a blackjack In the other fc while hi" sergeants 'bent up" a man in bl custody, according to testimony civeo 'oday a' his court martial on I Governor s Island. I Tnie testimony was uvrn by l.ir Heme H- Lcey, of Indianapolis, one of Btb principal witneesee lor the prose-I prose-I rutlon, from whom the defense, how- rver forced an admission that he once I had 'been i tnvicted In Ohio of "n I crime. " and thai h had faced various charge? while In the army. I Lacev. an ex-soldler, admitted he had escaped fmm Captain Detzer, for-eV for-eV mer command- r of the 308t hmilifary 'nohrc . .ini p-1 ' ' he iiad been ar Bl(j h him on a Mr1'! In Le Man." for belnz absent without leae. The detente brought out that he also had; left his organization In this country hefore it had sailed for France and In 1914 he had been accused of leuertlng from the aixth cavalry. . Detzer Told to "Beat It." Lacey testified that he had first met Detzer when he ha.i come out of cafe Willi Private Fred M. Yates, now a I military prisoner, who, it is expected. will he called tomorrow by the prose " Utioa He said Detzer had challenged ! them, that they lacked passe, bu' Yates had pretended he was taking him to the provost marshal's office af I halng found him in the railroad .yards where government property was living iu freight cars. Lacey said Dei zer ordered them to come along with him. but that after thc had gone a , short distance Yates dropped his hand to his revolver and '"told the captain io beat it " Detzer did. according to Lacey, ;.nd he and Yates fled, but urn la'er rearrested. Lacey testified that on brine brought before Detzer again, he liad received re-ceived rough treatment from him and his two sergeants, r B Madden and 1 rank L Hoyt H a aborted that once Detzer had ordered his sergeants to take him out. give him a chane,. to "in and i he (Udn't, make him, then shoot and ' waste no bullets " Lacey Beaten Many Times. He said he had been beaten a dozen times, on seven occasions before Det seer, who, he said, stood by with a pis tol In one hand and a blackjack in ihe other In addition, Lacey said Det Ser had mad" him sit on a bench for rive days without sleep. If he dozed off, he said, he was grabbed by the hair an.i pulled to his f.-et He added thai he had been made to sign false statements alter lie had "been led to believe h( would b'- punished by 'lah'' l he disobeyed. in cross-examining Lacey, Lieut. Thomas J, Hefferman, defense coun-s coun-s I. who at the op nins of the trial yesterday declared the defendant had incurred the wrath of many 'hard characters" while abroad asked the witness if he did not know of talk of 'peitinc' Captain Detser." He followed fol-lowed this with another question as to whether It was not true lie had. agreed 'with others to get together on one Btory," To both questions Lacej re plied in the negative. |
