Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-07 | Page 6 | Prison Chief's Record Scored

(PRISON CHIEF'S I REGORDSGORED A General Harts Is "Treated 5 Rough" By Congressmen At Probe of Cruelty to Prisoners II ( "WASHINGTON, April 6. Disciaim-i Disciaim-i responsibility for prison bruitallty al-.1 al-.1 leged to have occurred in the Paris t district while under his jurisdiction, V, Hig Gen. W. W. Harts, former com-'jr com-'jr mander of American troops in tho j) French capital, declared today before I a house war investigating comlmttee tbaht he was entirely satisfied with bis record at. that post. Gen. Harts said that while no cases showing the military police had used "strong arm" methodB on making ar 100 cases of bruitallty were reported report-ed among the ten thousand arreBta made during the four months period he was in command. Chairman Johnson of the committee, expressed the opinion that the com-inilteec com-inilteec oould be filled with soldiers anxious to testify to specific brutal-j ities. Gen. March, chief of staff, and other high army offioers, the chairman chair-man said, had admitted there was j basis for the charges now before tho I committee, the alleged conditions had existed he did not know of them, Mr. Johnson replied: "That.'s just it, if you didn't know, you ought to have known, and if you tiions, you were derelict to your duty" Gen. Harts said he had no defense to make of his administration of the Paris district. "I am proud of ray administration," tit said. "Everything done by mo in Paris was creditable," "You are the first man to admit that," Mr. "Bland replied. "My superior officers have complimented compli-mented me," Harts retoroted. "We'll sec about that later," Bland returned. , The witness denied he was directly responsible for alleged, irregularities, a claiming that the responsibility rest- e on junlon officers. "