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Source: Chicago Daily Tribune Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “M’Kinley Detractor Suffers” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Chicago, Illinois Date of publication: 1 October 1901 Volume number: 60 Issue number: 274 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 5 |
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| “M’Kinley Detractor Suffers.” Chicago Daily Tribune 1 Oct. 1901 v60n274: part 1, p. 5. |
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| Peter J. Devine (court-martial); McKinley assassination (personal response); McKinley assassination (sympathizers); William McKinley (detractors). |
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| John Rutter Brooke; Peter J. Devine; William McKinley. |
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M’Kinley Detractor Suffers
Cavalry Trooper Dismissed in Disgrace and Sentenced to Year at Hard Labor.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 30.—General Brooke has
approved the sentence against Private Peter J. Devine, Troop H, Eleventh Cavalry,
who was tried by a general court-martial at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., on the charge
of “using disrespectful words against the President of the United States.”
It appears from the evidence that when the news
of the shooting of President McKinley was received at Fort Ethan Allen, Devine
expressed great satisfaction over the crime and applied an uncomplimentary epithet
to the late President. He was found guilty of the charge by the court and sentenced
to be dishonorably discharged and confined at hard labor for one year.
General Brooke’s approval in the case is final
and the sentence will be executed.