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...bomb bay was closed. In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle. As Major Woodrow P. Swancutt pushed the throttles all the way forward, a rainbow shone overhead. Dave's Dream gathered speed, then rose slowly into the easterly wind...
Died. 2nd Lieut. Beaufort George Swancutt, 31, handsome lady-killer of La Crosse, Wis., under death sentence by an Army court-martial for running amuck in Camp Anza (Calif.) Officers' Club and killing his fiancée and three others (TIME, March 20); by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in San Francisco...
Lieut. Beaufort G. Swancutt, crippled by a policeman's bullet but recovering, told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...
...Beaufort Swancutt, an infantry officer with a disordered, unstable record that had somehow escaped the notice of the Army, had committed one of the most inexplicable crimes in the service's modern history. At Camp Anza he had killed two 19-year-old girls, his captain and a policeman in a wild shooting rampage that had begun while he was sitting at a table drinking beer...
...evidence was that he was not drunk. The defense's contention was that he was insane. Army psychiatrists, making a belated test of the young officer, ruled that he was not; the court-martial accepted their findings. After that Swancutt, father of two children, had no chance, beyond the possibility that somewhere in the process of review his sentence might be commuted...