Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-17
yesterday I:

Flaherty and Cook shot off the tie, the
former winning by a score of to 3.
General Cutting, in orders published on
Friday, made public and approved the pro-
ceedings, findings and opinions of the Mill
tary Court of Inquiry which investigated
the conduct of Captain A. G. McAlpin, of
Company d of the Third Infantry, n. G..
c., in regard to his score at the annual
target practice of his regiment on the 9th
of September, 1888. The Court comprised
Colonel Dickinson, of the First Major
Cutler, Inspector of the Second Brigade,
and Captain Hurber, of the Second Ar
tillery. The findings OF the Court are as
follows.
That at the annual target practice of said reg
iment, on said date, Captain McAlpin, with his
company, attended; that Captain McAlpin d.
rected the First Sergeant OF the company, Muir
ply, to detail a competent man to go to the
butts and see that the marking of the snots fired
was correctly done; that Sergeant Murphy, in
conformity with said order, detailed private
Peter o Rourke, of the company, for that duty;
that Captain McLlpin was the first to shoot and
during the time that he and perhaps other mem
bers OF his company fired, private o. Rourke was
at the butts, in conformity with the above
mentioned detail; that private 0'Rourke indi-
Gated with the discs the result of the respective
shots fired by Captain McAlpin, and as result
Captain McAlpin was credited with seven
bulFseyes, aggregating IS, and three fours ag-
gregating u, making a total of AZ; that after
five other officers and members of the COM
pany had fired their ten shots EACH and at
the same target the correctness of the score of
Captain McAlpin was questioned, and Lieuten-
ant J. J. o Br1en, Rife Inspector of said regi-
ment, accompanied by Captain McAlpin and
other officers of the regiment, examined the
scores credited to Captain MeAlpin and the five
others who had fired, and found ten bulr s-eyes
in all credited to them upon the score sheet lex
hlblt "A'); they then repaired to the target
and upon examination found that but three
bulPs-eyes had been made, whereupon Captain
McAlpins score was declared to be incorrect
and he fired another score of ten shots, making
an aggregate of "a.
The Court further finds that Captain McAlI in
had no knowledge prior to the examination of
the target that Private o Rourke had incorrectly
indicated with the disc the value of the shots
hired by him, and that such marking by Private
y Rourke was without his knowledge or con-
sent; that Captain McAlpin. upon finding that
his score had been falsely reported, called for
in arriving at the truth of the matter and
placing the blame where it belongs
Based upon the foregoing facts, the Court
is of the opinion:
First-That Captain McAlpin is in no way to
blame for the errors discovered in his score at
the annual target practice of said regiment.
Secondhand Private Peter O'Rourke, Com
pany d, Third Infantry Regiment, N. G. c.
knowingly and wilfully indicated and marked
falsely the shots fired at said annual target prae
tice by Captain Nc Alpin. and the said Court is
of the opinion that said 0'Rourke should be
brought to trial before a Court-martial for his
conduct on the occasion referred to-