Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1909 — TESTIMONY FILLS 6,000 PACES [ARTICLE]

TESTIMONY FILLS 6,000 PACES

Board to Pass Upon Troopers’ Re-En-listment to Have Busy Summer. Washington, May 11. —Six thousand pages of testimony relating to the “shooting up” of Brownsville are to be condensed into a synopsis comprising 500 pages. This is to be the summer’s work of the court of army officers appointed by the president to pass upon the qualification for re-enlistment of the 167 colored soldiers who were discharged without honor as a result of that affray.