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Show UU I CIVIL WAR 'VET' ADMITS f HIS ANCIENT DESERTIONS Hf LEAVENWORTH. Kan . Aug 20.' .J Samuel jf Jtviiigr 7 4 years dd. a rcsl- - wK dent of Joplln Mo . appeared Jter- lB day at the United States dlscipllnar vSV barracks at Fort Leavenworth and asked that he be locked up as a do-SrH do-SrH sertcr. or else that his civil war record bo cleared. King wept while telling his story to Lieutenant Colonel Rosen-baum, Rosen-baum, assistant commandant of the prison, Colonel Rosenbautn refused to hold the aged veteran and said the MH matter would be investigated King had documents to show that he was honorabb discharged FobruarJ IM io, 1866 on i surgeon's certificate of XAll disability Issued by the adjutant gen-fXJ gen-fXJ oral of Missouri He also showed pa-fjfll pa-fjfll pcrs from the bureau of records and kl pensions In Washington, which stated that he had twice deserted In lSt4, be-sBij be-sBij ing convicted of desertion by a court martial between the time of the two alleged offenses. Should Kings rec-?B rec-?B ord be cleared, army officers declared 9 he would be 'entitled to more than 'J9 $20,000 in hack pension. fH -oo I |