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Show POTHER AGAM ONDEIfKES PROVIDENCE. R. I.. ct. 19. Charged with the murder of Major Alexander P. Cronkhito at Camp Lewis, Wash., in October, 1918. Roland R. Pothler of this city, was arrested today by t'nlted states Marshal William Wil-liam R Rodman as a result of a secret se-cret indictment recently returned by the federal grand Jury in Tacoma, Wash The arrest marked the reopening of the famous case featured by Pothler's admission on bis first arrest over a year ago that he had killed Cronk- hltc and the subsequent seizure of Captain Robert Rosenbluth of New York charged with complicity in the killing. The cases of the government against both men were later dropped on orders from Attorney General Daughort. who had Investigated the evidence against them and pronounced it not to be of a character to warrant prosecution. |