Private James Sparks
Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 24 February
1904, page 8
In the case of Private James Sparks, Company M, sentenced by general court martial to a forfeiture of $40 and confinement for the same period, for allowing three prisoners to escape some time ago, the reviewing authority, Brig. Gen. Fred D Grant, commanding the department, disapproves the sentence, remarking that the evidence in this case failed to establish beyond doubt the guilt of the accused, and that the real neglect in the case is the fact that the prisoners had been allowed to obtain and secrete in the prison room a rope by which they effected their escape.