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Show PRIVATE SHOT FOR REFUSING i TO CUT BREAD This Is Declaration of Witness Wit-ness Before Senate Com- mittee at Washington HANGING DESCRIBED Doctors Deny They Saw Bodies of Murdered Men at Hospital WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. During i the inquiry into charges of alleged II-I II-I legal executions of soldiers overseas 'special senate Investigating committee j was told today by Henry Gentry. I negro of Igivvrcnco, Kansas, that in France ho saw Major Joseph Phlllpps i of Orango, N J.. a negro shoot Wil-I Wil-I Hum Patterson, a negro private, for refusing to help a cook cut bread. I Gentry who testified thai while an 1 ambulance Waited to take him to a , hospital to be operated on for appen- ' l dtcitis, ho saw Patterson shot and so ' far as he ktfev. the negro major was I not tried I "Do you know of your own knowl-edge knowl-edge that Patterson died?" Gentry! was ar.ked "No, sir. but he went to the hospi- I tal and never came back." The hanging of a negro soldier at Belleville, France, was described by Colonel James P. Barney of the army war college, who said the court martial mar-tial was composed of seven negro and five white officers, with a negro as ludgo udvocato The soldier was convicted con-victed of assaulting a French woman. 60 years old. he said. Testimony of Charles P. Green, a former service man. previously heard , by the oommittss that nine soldiers were shot and killed by tho military police and taken to baae hospital No. 9 at Chateau Koux, December 1918 was denied bv the medical officers on duty at the hospital at the time. The, witnesses. Doctors James P. ECraklne and Richmond Stephens of New York City, and Dr. Donald E. Me-Kenna Me-Kenna of Brooklyn, were positive In asserting that no bodies of murdered men were sent to the hospital |