Five Plead Guilty Before Peiping Court-martial The four US. Marine Privates wha asserted recetiy, after asauling Sentry and raising red fags on Wei ost flagpole and over the Ameri ost a over the American were court-martialed here Baward "0. Kirby, of Los jinest R. Jameson, of Lakeview, Oregon; Paul J. Wilson, of Baltimore; and Siephen A. Redden, jun. of Ridgeley, Maryland, the men Involved, pleaded "guilty to" five jeharges, including intent" to" incite Jeontempt for the naval authority. of the United States, by wilfully hoisting {wo red flags; maliciously, and without justifeation, striking sentry with a blackjack; stealing for their own tuse the sentry's pistol and. field lasses, which were the property of the United States; and desertion from August 13 to August 16. J. C. Dowden of Alco, Louisiana, also pleaded guilty to conduct prejudicial to good dis-Jcipline, in helping to hoist the red fags, In view of the pleas, the Court found the five men guilty. but did not announce sentence, pending a reference of the case to Rear-Admiral Erin Gould Murfin, Commander in Chief of the American Asiatic Squad-fon, and to the Navy Department in Washington for approval.
defence for the accused mon presented evidence to prove the previous good conduct "of the four marines, Earl W. Barrett, the sentry who was assaulted while on duly "on, August 13, is still in hospital here, bhut doctors report that he is re-[covering—United Press,
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