Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1919 — WITNESS TELLS OF DETZER’S BRUTALITY. [ARTICLE]

WITNESS TELLS OF DETZER’S BRUTALITY.

New York, Dec. 11.—Captain Karl W. Detzer, charged with brutality to prisoners in France, on several occasions, stood by with a pistol in one hand and a blackjack in the other, while his sergeants “beat up” a man in his custody, according to testimony given today at his courtmartial on Governors island. This testimony was given ’by Clarence H. Locey, of Indianapolis, one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution, from whom the- defense, however, forced an admission that he once had been convicted in Ohio of a “crime,” and that he had faced various charges while in the army.