Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — 14 SPIES SHOT IN U. S.? [ARTICLE]

14 SPIES SHOT IN U. S.?

Member of American Defense Boclety Makes Statement. New York, Jan. 25.—Fourteen spies have been shot since America entered the war, C. §S Thompson, member of the executive committee of the American Defense society, declared at a luncheon given by that society. It Is Information the public should know, he said. Two of those suffering the death penalty were from Detroit, Thompson asserted. Washington, Jan. 25—Major General Crowder, judge advocate general and provost marshal general of the army, said if any spy had been executed in the United States be had never heard of it.