A Soul on Trial Gallery

THE MAIN CHARACTERS

: Rosa Brant Sutton Sutton Family Photo

: James Nuttall Sutton, Sr.

: James N. Sutton, Jr. as a Midshipman

: Rose Sutton Parker

: Redondo Benjamin Sutton in his West Point uniform about 1909.

: Daysie Mae Sutton

: Louise Sutton circa 1907

: Senator Jonathan Bourne

: President Taft with his Golfing Pals 1909. Likely next to him is Senator Jonathan Bourne.

: Arthur Alexis Birney. Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

: Henry Edgar Davis. Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

: Lt Robert E. Adams, Denver Post July 27, 1909

: Major Henry (Harry) Leonard, the Navy’s formidable Judge Advocate in the Sutton Inquiry.

: James Cardinal Gibbons, ca. 1907. Portrait by Bachrach. Associated Archives at St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Baltimore.

: Janes Hervey Hyslop

SAMPLE PRESS COVERAGE

: New York American, July 11. 1909

: Atlanta Constitution July 15, 1909

: New York American, July 18, 1909

: Mary Elizabeth Stewart, Jimmie’s new friend Cincinnati Enquirer, July 19, 1909

: Sutton Court of Inquiry and Judge Advocate Leonard New york Evening Journal, July 20,1909

: Court of Inquiry and Judge Advocate Leonard The Washington Post, July 20, 1909

: New York American, July 20, 1909.”Sutton Death Acted in Court”

: Boston Globe, July 21, 1909

: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 23, 1909

: St Louis Post-Dispatch, July 25, 1909

: Two Sides of Sutton’s Personality New York Evening Journal, July 26,1909

: Philadelphia Inquirer, August 10, 1909

: New York Evening Journal, August 9, 1909

: New York Evening Journal, August 10, 1909

: Boston Globe, August 7, 1909

: Lieutenant Harold Utley and Rose Sutton Parker Oregon Daily Journal, August 11, 1909

: New York Herald, August 11, 1909. Rosa noted Jimmie was the shortest in the MAS class

: Courtroom scene as Rosa Sutton (at table in black) testifies. Rose Parker is behind her. Members of the court at far end of table on left. Major Leonard on right at the near end next to the court reporter (scribbling) on his left. On his right Henry Davis. Repoerter sat at tables behind Leonard and one is barely visible in foreground.

: Original Clipping in family papers “Mrs J. N. Sutton Coming Decides to Run for Congress” Los Angeles Examiner, May 22, 1910

: “Mrs J. N. Sutton Coming…” Bottom of clipping from The Los Angeles Examiner, May 22, 1910. ( Second edition, Prologue n.4, p.379 in the paperback in error states this clipping was from The Los Angeles Times.)

: Sunday, Nov 12, 1911, Top of feature article New York Times, Sunday Nov 12, 1911

: Bottom half of full page Nov 12, 1911

: Second page of NYT feature article Nov 12, 1911

KEY LOCATIONS

: 242 East 27th Street Los Angeles Sutton home from 1890-1897

: The Sutton family home on Hoyt Street, Portland, Oregon, ca. 1907. (Built in 1906)

: The Sutton House in 2022

: The Burliington where Rosa Sutton stayed In Washington, DC when not in Annapolis for the Inquiry.

: State< War and Navy Department and President Taft's cow

: Annapolis ca. 1909

: The Carvel Hall Hotel/Paca House in Annapolis where many including Rosa and Rose stayed before and during the Inquiry

: United States Naval Academy 1908. Detail from a photograph of a sketch by Richard Rummell, Nimitz library, USNA.

: Detail USNA Richard Rummell 1908

: Marine Corps Barracks and Student Officers’ Camp 1907

: Where Sutton was killed and the entrance to Carvel Hall , The Philadelphia inquirer, July 21, 1909

: Academic Building at the USNA where the Inquiry took place. Now Mahan Hall.

: Inside the auditorium of the Acadmic Building Site of the 1909 Naval Inquiry

: At the Inquiry in the Academic Building

: Lot 2102. Arlington Cemetery. 2nd Lt. James N. Sutton unconsecrated grave, October 1907. Temporary marker. His sister Rose had the wreaths labeled Mother and Dad put there.

: Two views of Lieutenant Sutton’s consecrated grave in 2001

: The grave of Rosetta Brant Sutton (Rosa), The San Francisco National Cemetery in The Presidio.

: The grave of James Nuttall Sutton Senior next to the monument for John Sutton and Anna Beatrice Dolan Sutton, Jimmie’s paternal grandparents, Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oregon

PERSONAL PROPS

: The mourning locket worn by Rose Parker at the InquirySutton Family Collection

: Inside Rose’s Mourning Locket MIdshipman James N. Sutton with a lock of his hair

: Letters from Rosa Sutton to Harry Swartz. Exhibit attached to Sutton Inquiry at NARA.

: Skull drawings to show bullet trajectory by Dr. Edward Schaeffer. Exhibits X1 and X2. Sutton Inquiry. NARA.

: August 1909 Rosa’s reply to the statement that her son’s death should not be investigated for the good of the Marine Service.

AFTERWARDS

: Rosa Sutton near Los Angeles circa 1912

: Rosa is thrilled to be a Gram. Here with Dickie Hall, (Dick Wick Hall, Jr.) Daysie’s son in 1913.

: Rosa circa 1919 with Jane Hall and Dickie Hall.

: A poppy sent to Rose Parker in 1917 https://robinrcutler.com/2025/11/30/not-all-memorials-are-monumental-a-1917-captains-tale-and-a-red-poppy/

: Rose Sutton Hicks with her second husband Randolph Hicks in Virginia circa 1920