Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — BRUTAL SOLDIER IS SHOT [ARTICLE]

BRUTAL SOLDIER IS SHOT

French Shoot Man Who Cuts Off the Ears of German Sentry. Berlin.—The newspapers print the story of the killing and mutilation of a German sentry who had been watching wire entanglements and comment appreciatively on what is termed the quick justice meted out by the French to the man who mutilated him. The soldier was found dead December 4. His ears had been cut off. The following day an officer of the French infantry appeared' before the German position under a flag of trace and expressed to the German commanding officer the abhorrence of his regiment at the action of the culprit, lte haid. Bfih been coademned and shot