Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-17

The Authorship of the Anonymous Note
of Warning Fastened Upon Him and the
Conclusion, Irresistible that the Alleged
Midnight Outrage Upon Him Was Got Up
by Himself.
WEST POINT, May l5.--Oadet Whitaker was
recalled to the witness stand to-day and ques-
toned at length by Recorder Sears. In the
course of the examination Whitaker
read with dramatic effect a let
ter written by him, denouncing the
assault upon him and its authors in the bitter
est of terms. The questions of the recorder
from the first appeared to be directed to show
ing that the assault was fictitious conspi-
racy on the part of Whitaker. The latter in
his evidence testified that he suspected Cadets
Blake and Mcdonald. Finally the recorder
produced and had read the hitherto suppressed
part of the reports of the experts who
examined the writing of all the cadets to dis
cover the author of an anonymous note of
warning, found in Whitaker g room, after the
midnight affair, in which his ears were cut.
Just before the reading of this, Whitaker
again testified that he knew nothing about
the note of warning. The experts state
ments all bore heavily against Whitaker. The
suppressed portion of expert Southworth's re-
port presented at the secret session of the
court was read. He said:
You will no doubt be surprised when |
tell you l have sheet which l have marked.
''A'' IN two places out of set one, from which
is taken the paper upon which "B'' twice in
blue is marked. The sheet ''B'' is torn from
another sheet which have
marked ''C' twice. Thus by facts
mathematically demonstratable, the anonymous
note is one of four things, three IF which are
papers of the set and l have great satisfaction
in discovering this point, which discovery will
do much towards settling the whole affair as
tar as the authorship of the anonymous note is
concerned. The ninth stands out to all inter
ested, friends and foes if there be any beyond
doubt or cavil that this most perplexing or
annoying questions had been solved. l have,
to the best of my ability, arranged
two frames of glass SO as to exhibit my dis.
covery to any one who may properly examine.
No. one in question was placed in juxtaposi-
ton with part of sheet from set one mark
ed "a" in two places. We first notice the cutoff
paper, the top as arranged and cut at the paper
mills, next the rulings and the ragged edges
in juxtaposition, when it was separated per
haps with paper cutter, no matter in what
way, so long as our indented spot upon our
edge has its corresponding tooth opposite. So
our No. 2, which is out of set, and marked as
above described and placed as have described
heretofore No |. - 1@.a @
This testimony created a sensation which
was greatly increased when it was announced
that the piece of paper on which the anony-
nous note was written was torn from sheet
of paper on which Whitaker had started to
write letter to his mother, which sheet the
expert had taken from the set and marked
"A' in two places. Every one of
the experts five il ALL identified
the hand writing Iof Whitaker as the hand
writing in the note of warning, three of them
being positive.
Whitaker was not questioned after above
conclusions were announced and the court ad-
iourned till Monday.