Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...reported that Sergeant Kelley, who has been stationed at Fort Popham, Maine, has been removed from his position by the Secretary of War. Sergeant Kelley, it will be remembered, is the man who so cruelly shot down Frank A. Smith, '85, last summer while the latter was looking over the fort. Kelley has been taken to Portland to await trial on the charge of murder...
Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co. have just published "The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber," edited by Thomas Sergeant Perry, late instructor in English, and lecturer in English literature at Harvard. Lieber's life was an eventful one. Having recovered from wounds received at Waterloo, and taken part in the effort to free Greece from Turkish rule, Lieber was forced by political persecutions in Germany to leave the Fatherland. After vainly struggling to earn a living in England, he came to this country in 1827, and settled in Boston as director of a gymnasium and swimming school. Later he went...
Judge-Advocate-General Swaim has made a report to the Secretary of War upon the case of Sergeant Mason, in which it is understood he recommends a modification of the latter's sentence...
...Ohio legislature requests the President to pardon Sergeant Mason, Guiteau's assailant, and the Garfield Club of New York has started a petition for his pardon. They expect 100,000 signatures in a week's time...
...Sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau in September last, has been sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, with loss of pay and eight years' hard labor...