Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-08
THE CASE OF CAPT. ARMIES.
n Change i'm the Composition of the
Court-Martial and PostpOnement.

general court-martial will meet Thursday
morning in the old offices Of the Secretary of
War. where the Lydecker court held its ses-
sions. for the trial of such persons as may be
brought before it," THIS means Captain Armes
whowas in Virginia. and it was supposed would
have TO be summoned by a special mes
senger. The court Was TO have met tomorrow
but Captain Armes' absence rendered it neces-
sary to change the date. The captain came
back, and was at the White House to-day.
THE FIRST DETAIL OF THE COURT
was as follows; Col. l.. l. Dodge, eleventh in
fan,ry; Col. f. F. Townsend, twelfth infantry;
Col. John Meudenhall second artillery. Lieut.-
Col. II. W. LAYTON, inspector-general; Major
ID. II. Carpenter. fifth cavalry; Capt. J. g.
Turnbull, third artillery; Capt. ). G. Kellogg
fifty cavalry; Capt. J. II. Myrick, third artillery:
Capt Lewis Smith, third artillery; Capt
+. ". Hess. third artillery: Capt. G.. :.
Anderson, sixth cavalry; Capt Jas. Parker,
artillery; Major J. W. Clous, judge-advocate
of the court
WHY CHANGE WAS MADE.
But soon this detail was made known
comments were heard on all sides about the Sc
lection Of three Oficers-COl Lawton, Major
Carpenter. and Major Clouse. Col. Lawton
was the inspector who investigated this case
apd preferred the charges on which Can't
Armes will be tried. Major Carpenter once
preferred charges against Capt. Armes on
which he tried several years ago; while
Major Clous was the judge-adyocate OF the two
courts that tried him previously. So this morn
ing work was begun on the detail to make the
necessary changes.
THE DETAIL OF THE NEW COURT
is as follows: Capt. Knox, first cavalry. in place
of Lieutenant Colonel Lawton; Captain
Knower, third artillery, IN place of
Major Carpenter, and Major George Davis.
judge-advocate, in place of Major Clous, as
ludge-adyocate of the court. Major Davis was
the judge-adyocate of the Lydecker court
The charge specifies that Capt. Armes, on the
5th Of March, made an affidavit before Judge
Miller that Captain Bourke, third cavalry.
had made an assault on Armes, which
Armes knew TO be false and malicious causing
the false arrest Of Bourke and his appearance
in the Police Court: that Armes made charges
against Col. Gibson. third artillery, and Capt.
Bourke, of drunkenness and boisterous con-
duct, the charges being false and malicious to
Armes knowledge, who made them with the
intent of injuring the officers; that Capt Armes
caused the publication OF a newspaper article
over his own name calling Gibson and Bourke
blackguards, and further insulted and DETAINED
them in a letter to the Adjutant-General
and finally, that Armes made "cowardly and
disgraceful violent public assault upon the per-
SON of his excellency, James A. Beaver, the
governor of Pennsylvania.
Capt Armes viii be tried on charge of con-
duct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,
the specifications including the disturbance in
the parade on Inauguration day, the newspaper
statements rejecting on the characters of other
officers, and the assault on Gov. Beaver in the
lobby Of the Riggs house.
The venerable Alexander H. H. Stuart OF
Staunton, Va, has just turned into his eighty