GENERAL ORDERS, No. 21. } WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, January 28, 1904. The following is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: On account of the many complaints of softness and lack of strength of the metal of which the prescribed saber scabbard is made and of the practical impossibility of making a black nickel steel so that the color shall be permanent or uniform, paragraph 41, General Orders, No. 132, Adjutant General's Office, December 31, 1902, is modified to read as follows: SABERS. 41. For all officers except chaplains.—According to sealed pattern in the office of the Quartermaster General; the guard to be of German silver and the scabbard of steel. Officers who have already provided themselves with the German silver scabbards heretofore prescribed will be permitted to continue their use as long as they present a creditable appearance. The further use of the dull-finished nickel steel scabbards will be discontinued. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, ADNA R. CHAFFEE, Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. Acting Adjutant General. FEB 9- Rec'd No. 22. Before a general court-martial which convened at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, pursuant to Special Orders No. 233, October 19, 1903, Department of California, and of which Colonel CHARLES MORRIS, Artillery Corps, was president, and Captain JOHN T. NANCE, 9th Cavalry, was judge advocate, was arraigned and tried WASHINGTON, January 28, 1904. First Lieutenant Hector A. Robichon, 13th U. S. Infantry. CHARGE. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in violation of the 61st Article of War." (Two specifications.) To which charge and specifications the accused, 1st Lieutenant Hector A. Robichon, 13th U. S. Infantry, submitted 'special pleas in bar of trial to the effect that the specifications to the charge are defective and fail to allege facts constituting offenses under the 61st Article of War; and also that the failure to bring him to trial within ten days, together with his release from arrest and detail for duty, operated as a pardon of the offenses. These pleas were overruled by the court; and he thereupon pleaded to the merits as follows: To the 1st Specification, "Not guilty." To the 24 Specification, "Not guilty." To the CHARGE, “Not guilty.” FINDINGS. Of the 1st Specification, "Guilty, excepting certain words; and of the excepted words not guilty." Of the 24 Specification, “Guilty." Of the CHARGE, 66 Guilty." SENTENCE. And the court does therefore sentence him, 1st Lieutenant Hector A. Robichon, 13th Infantry," To be dismissed the service of the United States." The record of the proceedings of the general court-martial in the foregoing case of 1st Lieutenant Hector A. Robichon, 13th Infantry, having been submitted to the President, the following are his orders thereon: WHITE HOUSE, January 21, 1904. The sentence imposed by the court-martial in the case of First Lieutenant Hector A. Robichon, Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry, is approved. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Accordingly Lieutenant Robichon ceases to be an officer of the Army. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: ADNA R. CHAFFEE. Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: W. P. HALL, Acting Adjutant General. No. 23. WASHINGTON, January 28, 1904. Before a general court-martial which convened at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 82, Department of the Columbia, May 19, 1903, and of which Major HENRY B. Moon, 10th Infantry, was president, and Captain WALTER A. BETHEL, Artillery Corps, acting judge advocate, was judge advocate, was arraigned and triedFirst Lieutenant Knud Knudson, 7th Infantry. CHARGE I.-"Falsifying post-exchange accounts, in violation of the 61st Article of War." Specification 1st-"In that 1st Lieutenant Knud Knudson, 7th Infantry, officer in charge of the post exchange at Fort Davis, Alaska, did, on or about October 1, 1901, and with intent to deceive the commanding officer and post-exchange council at Fort Davis, Alaska, make a false entry on the ledger of the said post exchange, which said entry was in words and figures as follows, to wit: 'Feby. 15. By cash, 800.00,' the said Lieutenant Knudson intending at the time he made the said entry that it should show that he had paid the Ames Mercantile Company of Nome, Alaska, the sum of $800 February 15, 1901, and well knowing that he had made no payment to the said Ames Mercantile Company on February 15, 1901, but that he had made such payment of $800 to the Ames Mercantile Company on or about October 1, 1901, by check dated October 1, 1901, drawn by him, the said Lieutenant Knudson, as quartermaster, on the U.S. Assistant Treasurer, San Francisco, Cal., and payable to Ames Mercantile Company. This at or near Fort Davis, Alaska, on or about October 1, 1901.” Specification 2d-"In that 1st Lieutenant Knud Knudson, 7th Infantry, officer in charge of the post exchange at Fort Davis, Alaska, did, on or about October 1, 1901, and with intent to deceive the commanding officer and the members of the post-exchange council at Fort Davis, Alaska, FEB 12 Recd |