Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1914 — SOLDIER DIES FOR HONOR [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER DIES FOR HONOR

Accused of Perjury, trooper Kills Himself to Evade Court * Martial.

Leavenworth, Kas. —Rather than sufTer the humiliation of being tried by court-martial on a charge of perjury, Morgan C. Hall, a private at Fort Leavenworth, shot and killed himself. Hall was charged with perjury for testimony he gave at the trial of an army officer. He was a guard at the military prison and killed himself just before the arrival of soldiers who had been sent to escort him to the court that was to try him.