President Saved Private Miller from Firing Squad
Item
- Title
- President Saved Private Miller from Firing Squad
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 10/6/00
- page
- 5
- Identifier
- www.loc.gov/item/sn89053684/1900-10-06/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Criminal Assault;
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Law enforcement involved
- President
- Stage of the Legal System
- Sentencing
- Location
- In State, Washington GA
- Length of story
- 67
- Description
-
President Saved Private Miller From
the Firing squad
Washington. Oct. S.—Private Frank Miller, Company I. Twenty-third United
States Infantry, was convicted by court
martial at Cebu, P. 1., of the charge of
criminal assault, and sentenced to "be
shot to death with musketry." The case
having been submitted to the President
for his action, he commuted the sentence
to confinement at hard labor for twenty
years