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Deserter Shooting Sparked by Army Court Martial
A former Army balloon company private, Stevens, 19, was shot by Sergeant W Roger Gay after Stevens refused to halt a truck on the Parkway. Gay, arrested, faces a naval or military trial. Stevens was hospitalized with a wound through the left lung and had a troubled service record including an earlier assault and hospital custody. The incident prompted police and military officials to coordinate with local magistrates for processing.
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Philadelphias
John
Steve
Poar Panama Treet
Air Service
W Roger Gay
Balloo
Twenty-second Street
Gay
Martin
Stevens
Medico-Ohisurgical Hospital
Ab.le
Mary Stevens
Delancey Street
Ewentieth Jand Buttonwood Streets
Army Hospital
Baltimore
Jbli
John P. Horlacher
Twelfth and
Vine Streets
Marie Cooper
Cartney
Aberdeen
Emerson
Balloon Company