JAPANESE COURT CONVICTS
GIRARD OF FATAL SHOOTING,
3-YR. SENTENCE SUSPENDED
By GENE KRAMER
iMAEBASHI, Japan, (3—GI
William S. Girard was convicted
yesterday of shooting down a
woman scrap collector to satisfy
a “momentary caprice.”
A three-judge Japanese court
gave him a three-year suspended
prison sentence and put him on
probation for a fourth year.
Girard called the verdict after
the three-month trial “kind of
tough” but said he was glad the
court gave him another chance.
The 22-year-old soldier from
, Ottawa, 111., and his Japanese
bride are scheduled to leave for
the United States quickly if nei
ther prosecution nor defense ap
peals the verdict during the next
14 days. *
The court said the probation
period would apply only if he re
mained in Japan. Girard also was
ordered to pay the court costs of
the Japanese witnesses, about $2j0.
Chief Defense Atty. Itsuro Hay
ashi said the defense does not in
tend to appeal unless the prosecu
tion does. A prosecution spokes
man indicated his side also would
not challenge the court ruling.
The prosecutors had asked for
a five-year sentence, which under
Japanese custom would have
ruled out a suspension.
Girard, a specialist third class,
told a news conference he would
like to re-enlist when his term ex
pires Jan 27. An Army spokes
man said any re-enlistment appli
cation would be judged on its
merits, altho conviction of a fel
ony normally rules out an appli
cant. .
Altho the case at its outset had
created a furor in Japan and
America and a crisis in U.S.-Jap
anese relations, there was little
immediate public reaction to its
outcome. The newspaper Asahi
said the friends and neighbors of
Mrs. Naka Sakai, victim of Gir
ard’s shot last Jan. 30 on an Army
firing range, were “almost heart
lessly indifferent” and said they
could not understand “why there
was so much fuss about it.”
In an editorial the newspaper
said it hoped the verdict “does
not lead to a lower estimation of
the loss of life” and that U.S.
servicemen in Japan “will pay
more attention and not cause an
other Girard case.”
The Girard case attracted atten
tion thruout the world when vet
erans’ groups and some newspa
pers and congressmen in the U.S.
protested the Army’s turning the
soldier over to a Japanese court.
The fuss finally subsided after
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
there was no constitutional bar
to letting Japan try Girard.
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