Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — LIFE OF “OBJECTOR” SPARED [ARTICLE]

LIFE OF “OBJECTOR” SPARED

President Disapproves Death Sentence Passed on Private. Washington, March 4. —Disapproval by President Wilson of the death sentence Imposed by a military courtmartial uppn Private Max Sandin, a conscientious objector at Camp Funston, Kan., was announced by the war department. A sentence of 15 years’ impriSfjnment was approved. Sandin wa,s found guilty of having refused to obey orders of his superior officer to clean up a pile of refuse in camp. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, commanding at Camp Funston at file time of the trial, recomended that the sentence be commuted to confinement at hard labor for 25 years, “in view of the fact that at the present time the ends of discipline of this command do not demand the execution of the extreme penalty.”