WAR PRISONER CHARGED
MURDER OF COMRADES IN KOREA ALLEGED NEW YORK. August 9. A witness testified yesterday that Sergeant James Gallagher, aged 23, murdered a fellow United States prisoner of war in Korea by beating him, suspending him from a hook on a wall and throwing him out of a hut into a below-freezing temperature. The witness was Sergeant Lloyd Pate, who testified at the court-martial of Gallagher, charged with the “unpremeditated murder” of fellowprisoners in a Korean prison camp. Gallagher is the first United States prisoner of the Korean war charged with murder. Another witness. Eilly Evans, aged 31, testified that he found the frozen bodies of two other prisoners, Corporal Donald Baxter and Corporal John William Jones, lying outside a barracks at the camp in February, 1951. Gallagher is charged with their murders. Evans testified that Gallagher informed on Americanl prisoners who were trying to frustrate the. Communists’ indoctrination programme.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27734, 11 August 1955, Page 13
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