Washington, D.C., April 26—Friends and relatives of Paul Crouch of Wilkes County, who was tried by a military court in Hawaii and sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment for attempting to organize a communist league among the soldiers stationed at Scofield barracks, ae now trying to have him freed.
May 12, 1925, the heavy sentence was reduced to three years.
Robert H. McNeill, attorney for I.M. Crouch, father of young Crouch, has filed with the war department a half dozen or more affidavits to show that the convicted soldier was mentally deficient and peculiar.
Among the affidavits now in the hands of the department is signed by Capt. R.E. Walters, North Wilkesboro, N.C. The father of Crouch is 90 years old. He is making a hard fight for his son.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, May 5, 1926
digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92072938/1926-05-05/ed-1/seq-1/
No comments:
Post a Comment