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Show HAITIANS SLAIN ! ByU.jJINE Charge Made Before Court of j Inquiry; Says Three Died POR1 i PRINCE, Tahiti, No 17 (By 'ihe Associated Press. 1 The I direct charge that Freeman Lang I formerly a corporal In the marine corps and a lieutenant III the gendarmerie gen-darmerie killed three Haitian prison-icrs prison-icrs at Hinche in 1917 was made to-( dn befor.- the court of incpiiry which Is investigating the activities of the ) American marines in Haiti, by Adolph Bourgot. a native Lang was formerly 1 a resident of Ixs Angeles Cal Hourgot. who at the time was acl- Ing as eorporal In the gendarmn.r lj testified h ullnfserl Id,' execution of the brlBoners, which ocCUFfed im-1 medlatelv after a nlRht attar k He testified that during the at' li ki I which lasted half an lioifi the ihfee I Haitians werr In prison When the atta.cH ended Lang dfdeFed them out, ihbbtlflji the f 1 r h 1 one In the back ' The oihrrs were brought out Rtiu;lv meeting the same fate Ifl 1 1 1 - same Way I wiim in the prison yard with other natives seeking safety. " Bourgot testified clearly and dir. I j ly. Answering a question bv Jurifce Advocate Major Jesse P. Dyer to iden-Mfi iden-Mfi l ing, if present the witness rose and pointed across the tubb- tt Lmir At this Juncture the couit retired, llbseojuericly announcing it wotilrl glyi . . rig 1 lie right to tjuei I IOB Bbdl -gdt. id. tain wlth-sses imrl emplns counsel ' , L.mg. who now is engaged in buai- nea in Hindis btarted to question Bourgot but dUlclclj obie ti .1 to he I translator, tleclailng hr- w nited , 1 white man Th. E8ufl granted the n questi adjourning Lung's tcstimonv i until tomorrow Llellll Rftftl I ;oldHj Hoobf-i rlesr'i Ibrr tne Jenuarj attack on Pr.n ,w prince 1 " Ing b- harl her Kill. , I (,. ,, . clared the all.uk Was made fi order to bolster the bandit oausl Colonel iritis l.inlr 1 ..mlii . ruling ' the rield forces; testified that the olilt , ' '""idaiMi M,,,,, Pri sitleni D'Arllguen-! D'Arllguen-! aye of Haiti n in BSSH (RVeiitlgaii li and found t.i b in. one. 1 6oleAel I billle d. r lared afl IhVeltlgdtiOfi 1 veaied nun h hddbrtitl llppFenticel whlb on lib. rt , ame drunk ,.s- ' and slightly injured h Judge' I j Harris Lschlti ., Russian, who has become lianir.illsed. testified to '" w Sfl 16 killings ,.r .,. tlvfjl bv the or cUpjtlMhal f,.r.e -biM- ... |