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Colonel William Mitchell, under court martial (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) , saw hot times in court last week. It seemed that the legal machinery developed more friction than efficiency. The lawyers of the defense and the prosecution objected and objected to their opponents' course. In a goodly number of cases the prosecution was overruled, and there were persons to remark that, however able the Army's trial judge advocates might be, they had not distinguished themselves as trial lawyers...
...Colonel Mitchell was called once before to testify before the Naval Court, but declined to do so because he was about to be tried by Army court martial...
...Zachary Lansdowne, widow of the Commander of the Shenandoah, had testified before the Mitchell court martial (TIME, Nov. 23) that Captain Paul Foley, U. S. N., Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry, had tried to influence the testimony she gave before that body. So the Court of Inquiry on reassembling made Captain Foley a defendant, and its new Judge Advocate, Major Leonard, U. S. M. C., summoned Mrs. Lansdowne and others as witnesses...
That matter having been disposed of, Major Leonard proceeded to call the witnesses who had testified concerning the Shenandoah before the Mitchell court martial...
...fuss. Any attempt to render deliberate justice in a controversial case usually brings on a big fuss. In the court martial of Colonel William Mitchell (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.) there is little doubt that the nine generals who are the august judges, were, if given any instructions at all by the War Department, told to conduct the trial in such a manner that Colonel Mitchell could have no complaint of unfairness...