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Last May, four air police walked into the Jones & Laughlin mill in Pittsburgh and asked for Bob Toth, a young (21) steelworker. When they found him at work, the APs handcuffed him, took him to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, where he was ordered aboard a military plane. Five days later, Toth, who had gotten his honorable discharge five months earlier, was in a guardhouse in Taegu, Korea, awaiting trial by court-martial on a charge of murder...
...Washington's National Airport last week, Bob Toth. a wan and bleary-eyed traveler, stepped from a commercial airliner into the arms of his tearful mother and sister. The murder charge still hung over him, and he remained in Air Force custody, but he had won the first round of the toughest tug of war in years between civilian and military authorities...
Order to Shoot. The case began at an Air Force bomb dump in Taegu in September 1952. One night. Toth was on duty as sergeant of the guard. As he told the story later: "A gook who was drunk came into the area. The guard was on duty with a dog, and he hollered twice to the gook to halt, and when the gook didn't stop, he tried to get the dog to stop him, [but] the dog wouldn't attack. Then the guard fired two shots. These shots woke me, and I went to the area...
...unfortunate "gook." a South Korean civilian named Bang Soon Kil, was taken to a secluded revetment, where the guard killed him with a single shot. "I didn't want anything to do with it," Toth claimed, "so I got the hell out of there. When I was back at the guardhouse. I heard a shot, got into the jeep and went back to the bomb dump. When I got there, I saw the gook lying on the ground...
...life sentence of Airman Thomas L. Kinder, 21, the guard who fired the fatal shot, was reduced to two years. No one questioned the sentences, or the military's right to try Kinder and Schreiber. who are still in the Air Force. But the case of Bob Toth, a civilian, is a different matter...