Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1917 — Five Year Penalty For Gopher Guardsman. [ARTICLE]

Five Year Penalty For Gopher Guardsman.

Minneapolis, March. 6.—Officers of the First Minnesota Infantry, returning to Eoirt Smelling today from the Mexican border, announced that Paul L. Scharfenberg, of St. Paul, a private in L Company, First Minnesota Infantry, iwas sentenced to five years imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Feb. 5, by a court martial at San Antonio, Texas, for Sumiahdng .military Information to Germany. A letter addressed to relatives in Germany, asserting that ten .million Germans in this country were ready to rise up against the government in the event of war with Germany, was intercepted by British authorities and turned over to Waahndgton officials, according to statements by the officers. Scharfenberg Is a native of Germany, i V.