Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-17
NEW YORK.
Death.

New YORK, May 10. The court of Special
Sessions adjourned out Of respect to the
memory of Chief Justice Sanford +. Church.
The funeral occurs Tuesday, at 3 o'clock
=. NJ. kilograms are constantly received
from all parts ofthe county rendering sympa-
thy to the bereaved family. The bar of the
adjacent cities will attend the funeral in a
body. Calls at the family residence number
thousands.
Funeral.
The funeral of the late Samuel X. Glen,
journalist, was largely attended by represen-
tatives from the newspapers and prominent
citizens. The Episcopal burial service was
read by Rev. DIR. Dix. The masonic funeral
rites were conducted in the church yard The
pail bearers were members of the Herald
Pa. for nterment.
Cold Weather.
FIsHKILL LANDING, May Is. 1t was un-
| usually cold on the Hudson last night. Ice
formed in Buck county, and snow was again
visible on the Catskills. Vegetation is dam
aged.
Cadet Whitaker.
WEST POINT, May Is. Whitaker testified
| that when he reported the wrongs done him
to the authorities they had been redressed
| He had suspicious that cadets Blake and Nc.
Donald might be the perpetrators ofthe out.
| rage on him. A letter was shown him by the
recorder, who refused to let him take it, blu,
Lieutenant knight took it from the recorder
and gave it to Whitaker to read. Some sar
castle remarks were made by spectators al
this unusual course of the recorder, and
President Abbott said if remarks were heard
| again those making them would be elected
! The letter was from Whitaker to a man
named Winter, in New York, in which he ex
pressed Indignation at the cowardly outrage
| committed upon him. He read it in full He
told the recorder, in response to a query, tina
| he held the same sentiments of indignation
now.
In answer to query why in the letter t.
his mother he had said, u shall see that jus
tice is done, if have to apply to Congress,
Whitaker said: 81 know ! am innocen
| and wanted full investigation" Flippel
had sent him telegram suggesting that Nc
Donald might have been one of his assai
ants. After further questions The recorder
asked him if he still adhered to his statement
that he knew nothing about the note If warn
| ing and he replied he did. Then all the sup
| pressed portions of the reports of the expert.
were read by the recorder, showing tina
| each expert testified that the handwriting o
cadet Whitaker was the writing of the person
who wrote the note of warning, thus fxin.
all the mysterious numbers named in the re
port Of the experts on Whitaker, including
| Nos. 8, Il, 20, as, as There was a grea
mass of this evidence in the note sheets o
| the experts statements, all of which bort
heavily against Whitaker, but that which
was the eliminating event of the entire in
! vestigation thus far was the reading of tn,
suppressed portion of expert Soathworth'
report as presented TO the court at the lat
secret session. 1t gives a long account o.
how Southworth, by means Of glass, discov
cred that portions Of the paper on which
Whitaker had written were from paper OF
which he bad begun q letter to his mother
and proved the handwriting to be WHITAKER
All five experts identified the handwriting o
Whitaker and the handwriting in the note O
warning, three Of them being positive. Tn
announcement caused sensation. No ful
Their questions were asked Whitaker.
WEsr PoINr, May l6. In an interview "a
day, Whitaker states that last evening b
was invited to Gen. Scho6eld's, the latte