For eleven days the hamlet of Geetingsville,Ind. had offered prayers for Pfc. Robert A. Colby, sentenced to death in Germany after an Army court martial (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week Geetingsville heard what Bobby Colby had done. At Eisleben he had gone AWOL to find a drink, had been given four days' extra labor as punishment. That night he had taken a rifle, shot and killed his company commander and a passing lieutenant.
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