Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1917 — National uard Officers Are Accused of “Spread-Eagling.” [ARTICLE]

National uard Officers Are Accused of “Spread-Eagling.”

New York, Jan. 26.—Captain Wilbur T. Wright and Lieut. Frank A. Spencer, of the Second field artillery, New York national guard, were placed on trial today before a court martial at Fort Totten on charges of having “spread eagled” five members of that command by ordering them to be lashed to the wheels of gun carriages. Max Kellerman, one of the men who was “spread eagled," told the court that by order of Captain Wright, he was tied to a carriage wheel for two hours and that Captain Wright directed an orderly •to tie up aH five of the men. He-com-plained to him before and after the spread eagling incident. The punishment was inflicted because, it is asserted, the five guardsmen refused to obey orders to clean the armory “rink.”