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TO FORTiLEAVENWORTHConscientious Objector From Stevens Point Gets Long Term In PrisonA dispatch from Camp Grant. III., under date of Jan. 17 said:“Private Walter Boyd Dumbleton, Stevens Point, Wis., was formally sentenced to twenty-five years at hard labor at Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks today. Dumbleton on September 13 absented himself from overseas inspection and on the following day refused to obey a command to prepare himself for overseas shipment. He was court-martialed. He belonged to the Thirty-sixth medical replacement unit.”Dumbleton professed to have religious scruples against army service and made a stubborn fight before the local draft board for exemption. When the board refused to let him off, he became defiant and threatened, in case he went to camp, to refuse to don a uniform. When he was told of the serious consequences that might ensue were he to defy the military authorities, he professed indifference.Dumbleton was sent to Camp Grant on March 28, 1918, protesting to the last. At the camp, in consideration of his alleged religious scruples, he was put into-a medical unit, a non-combatant branch of the service. Apparently he performed his duties and avoided trouble Ufltil the time for his departure for France drew near.
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Stevens Point Gazette
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 22, 1919
Page 6
Full Page
Clipped by
Dianne P.
WI, USA 15 Dec 2016
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