The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-12
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS
The End Of the o'Lsary Belt Contest.
The Negro Hart the wIausr, Making the
Best Time on Rscord-Ths Fire Record
Grimes and Crlnlnals-The In.
yestIultlon luto the West
Point Outrage, &c.,&c.
TIE WEST POINT OUTRAGE.
ExamInatIon in tho Case of the ColorOd

WET PoIST, N. Y, April 10.-The first
witness examined was the Officer OF the
Day, and the first one toeuter Whittaker's
room. He called him repeatedly, but he
made no answer. Witness saw him lying
in peculiar position, and thought he had
fallen out Of bed. His fee. were tied near
the foot Of the bed and his hands tied in
front OF him. At first he looked ss II his
throat was cut. Witness took his head in
his hands and turned 1t over to see under
meath, and saw blood trickling down his
face. Thirst appeared as though running
out OF his ears, but an examination showed
it came from cuts on his ears, and had
run into his ears, and the back of his
head looked as II it had been crushed with
something. There was looking.glass
near the bed, on the floor, glass down and
broken, and some Of the pieces were spat-
tered with blood; there were also burnt
pieces oi paper lying about the floor, and
q pool OK water aud q blanket and COM
forter lay on the aoor at the foot OF the
bed. There was blood on the blanket
and large blotch Of blood on the mat
tress, and blood on the wall next 10 the
bed. The latter looked as II it had
been daubed there. His stockings lay at
the foot Of the bed saturated with water.
When the surgeon arrived he shook Whit
taker, and the latter said: "Please don't
cut me-" He asked him what was the
matter, and he said again: "Please don't
cut me. Ineyer injured you" Witness said
when the doctor tried to open his eyes,
Whitaker appeared TO try TO keep his eye
ball out Of sight. His pulse was quite
regular. Witness also noticed punches OF
his hair lying in the room, and located
them on the spot where Whitaker said in
his testimony his hair was cut. Witness,
by direction, laid himself on the floor and
showed the position Whitaker was in
when he first saw him. His feet were
elevated, and he lay partly on hisside. 1t
seemed to some present almost impossible
for Whitaker to have united the cords
about his feet, from the position witness
illustrated he was in, especially II his
hands were firmly bound. Witness also
exhibited how the knots were tied, show
ing that there was more than one full
knot, and that the knots were OF char
acter somewhat difficult to unite.
Afterward the witness tied his
own wrists as he said Whittaker's were
tied, and then broke the bands. (The
space between witness handsa latter he was
tied was two inches, and between his
wrists three inches. He testified that the
space between Whittaker's hands was one
inch and between his wrists two inches,
in breaking the bands witness suffered
abrasions OF the skin on both wrists. Wit
ness in appearance, Is considerably strong
er than Whitaker. Witness was also
bound hand and foot, as was Whitaker.
and laid beside an iron bedstesd, which
had been brought into Court, and his feet
tied to 1t, when he showed he could reach
the knots on his feet with his hands.
Whitaker was not present during Cadet
Burnett's evidence. Adjourned till Mon
day