Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1920 — DETZER ACQUITTED OF ABUSE CHARGES; RECEIVES THREATS [ARTICLE]

DETZER ACQUITTED OF ABUSE CHARGES; RECEIVES THREATS

New York, Feb. 6.—Simultaneously with the announcement at governor’s island today that Captain Karl W. Detzer had been acquitted by a court martial of charges of cruelty to American soldiers at Lemans, it became known that the exonerated officer had received several threatening letters warning him not to show himself in certain middle western cities. Captain Detzer was handed a letter from Lieut. General Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the department of the east, informing him that the general courtmartial which since December 10, 1919, had been hearing evidence of his alleged brutality to overseas men, had found him “not guilty on all charges and on all specifications.