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OCR Page 1 of 22 BN :
Headquarters 35th Division
American Expeditionary Forces
9th January 1919.
GENERAL COURTO
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MARTIAL ORDEES
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No. 132
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757
Before a General Court Martial which convened at the station of
the command of the 137th U. S. Infantry, December 27th, 1918,
pursuant to paragraph 3, Special Ordérs 264, Headquartors 35th
Division, lst December 1918, was arraigned and tried:
ATIONAL
AND
RDS
Private Robert Jerome, Company I, 137th Infantry.
Charges.
Charge
1
: Violation of the 58th Article of War.
Specification 1 : In that Private Robert Jerome, Company I, 137th
Infantry, did, at Arches, France, on or about the 30th day of June
1918, desert the service of the United States and did nemain absent
in desertion until he was apprehended on or about the 3rd day of
July, 1918.
Charge
II : Violation of the 6lst Article of Warr
Specification 1 :: In that Private Robert Jerome, Company I, 137th
Infantry, did, at Arches, France, without proper leave, absent him-
self from his command from about July 13th, 1918, to about
October 6th, 1918.
Charge
III : Violation of the 96th Article of War.
Speci fication 1 : In that Private Robert Jerome, Company I, 137th
Infantry, did, at Arches, Frence, on or about the 3rd day of July,
1918, without proper authority, appear in French Army Uniform.
Specification 2 : In that Private Robert Jerome, company I, 137th
Infantry, a prisoner in confinement in the 6lst Infantry guardhouse
did, at Arches, France, on or about the 13th day of July, 1918,
escape from such confinement.
Pleas.
To Specificetion 1, Charge
1
:
Not Guilty
To Charge I
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Not Guilty
To Specification 1, Charge II
:
Not Guilty
To Charge II
:
Not Guilty
To Specification 1, Charge III
: Guilty.
To specification 2, Charge III
: Guilty
To Charge III
: Guilty .
Findings.
Of Specification 1, , Charge I
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Not Guilty
Of Charge I
:
Not Guilty
Of Specification 1,
Charge II
:
Not Guilty
of Charge II
:
Not Guilty
Of Specification 1, Charge III
:
Quilty
of Specification 2, Charge III
: Guilty
Of Charge III
: Guilty
Sentence.
To forfeit two- thirds (2/3) of his pay per month for three months.
Action.
In the foregoing case of Private Robert Jerome, Company I, 137th
Infantry, the sentence of the cour t is disapprove.d There is a
complete absence from the record of competent evidence, and the
evidence given is entirely irrelevant or incompetent and prejudicia;
to the accused. The explanation by the president of the court re-
quired in cases where the plea is guilty, is entirely erroneous and
misleading The ignorance of the court and the improper presentat-
ion of the case bir the Assistant Trial Judge Advocate has caused
conditions which cannot be corrected by revision and which, as a
result of the disepproval necessarily resulting from such conditions
permit the excape from punishment of the accused, who is shown by hi
own pleas to have been guilty of very grave offence.
OFFICIAL:
By Command of Brigadier General Dugan:
WM. ELLIS
H. S. HAWKINS
it. Col. Inf. U.S.Army
Colonel, General Staff,
on diutant
Chief of Staff.
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World War, 1914-1918
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