UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH
THE CASE OF PRIVATE LONSDALE.
Amsterdam; April 29.. Tlie'"Cologne Gazette" says that theImperial Court has confirmed the Military Gbtirt's death senteiico on Private. .Lonsdale, and rejected an application for X revision of the sentence, which sow requires tho Kaiser's confirmation. Private William Lonsdale,: of Leeds, while a prisoner, of war at Doeberitz Camp; in. Germany: was sentenced fly. court-martial " on December 2 to ten years' imprisonment for, having struck a Laridwehr guard a. blow. on tlie chest in a dispute between the: British prisoners and their warders, on November 9. A non-commissioned officer thereupon struck'Lonsdale with' his' sword. Lonsdale stated at his trial;that hb struck the warder only the latter had struck him with a The presi-dent-of the court-martial, dissatisfied with the verdict,' "referred it'to the Supreme Military Court,- which on December 30 sentenced'Lonsdale to death. Much feeling was aToused in Britain by tlie.-dccision of-the-German authori-. ties, and at the request of the Lord MayopoE-LeedsJ the American Minister at The Hague asked the American Ambassador in Borlin to do all he, could for Privat© Lonsdale. Later Lonfidal© &{>- pealed to the Military High Court of
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 1 May 1915, Page 8
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188UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 1 May 1915, Page 8
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