The evening world., 1890-06-03
TRIALS BY MILITARY CODE.
National Guard Dirty Linen to Be
Washed by Court Martial
Col. Hopper, Tist, and Capt. Allen,
9Th, to Bo Tried To-s1orrow.

The troubles and dissonsions In the model
Seventh and the gallant Seyontv-flrst Resi-
ments arc TO be investigated by court-mar-
ual. Adjt. Gen. Porter has appointed
Major Henry \. Van Duzcr. Of the First
Brigade, Judge Advocate Of q court organ.
lied TO try Col. Hopper, OF tho Seventy y-trst,
on charges preferred against him by Capt.
A. w. Eelknap, of Company u, the outcome
OF long formenting differences. The conton-
tion between Capt. Austin f. Allen and
First Lieut.. Thomas A. Patteson, ir.. Com.
pany ID, Seventh Regiment. will also be
looked into.
Gen. Porter has selected as members OF
the courtmArtial, Brig. -aen. Louis Fitz-
gerald, Col. George u. Scott, of tho Eighth,
and Col. David c. Austen, of tho Thirteenth
Regiment The Court will convene ut
O'Clock tomorrow evening at the Seventy
first Regiment Armory.
arose out OF an unsuccossfut attempt OF the
Colonel to obtain the DISCHARGE of Capt,
Bclknap for ALLEGED incnpacity. The board
that tho chargee were not substnnl liated.
but recommended that tho Captain be dis-
missed. This recommendation was disnp-
proysda the ssd Sn
tho Board for its Piokwickian conclusion.
Capt. Belknap was again mt in charge OF
hS Ssv RS it, sb.snssa wTns e
from drill. und Capt. Belknap appealed to
| Col. Hopper for assistance In compelling
ubcdience. Ho declares thnt Col. Hopper
charges TO that effect. which Col. Hopper
forwarded through regular channels to Gen.
Fitzgerald. m
correspondence was ,sent, to Adit. Gen,
| Porter and has resulted in the appointment
OF this conrt-martial.
The trouble in Col, Dan Applotons regi-
e%t G%p AeS 9n SpR and Iisat attoson are Brook
| lyn men, society men. hanlsome men, and
excellent military men. They are twenty
lively. The Captain IL in the, BROOKLYN
| Public Works Department. The Lieutenant
is his fathers partner IN 'he tobacco bpri. n
manly, military bearing. Tho Lieutenant
| has n curling mustache, and also manly,
eYeSS aSSnt RSoTFh Tho sams they The RoS %o1a
like David and Jonathan for q long timo,
but about two years ago their friendship
| began to cool.
Fiat wa, when Allen became Second
Lieutenant and Pattesop a sergeant, and
Aliens friends saw that tho parting was by
just the difference in these ranks. the Sergt.
Paterson conceiving jealousy Tor the
The differences betwssa these two war.
riorB reached O. climax last December, when
| Patteson, who had risen to tho First lien.
| tenancy, charged Alien, who had advanced
| in rank in exact ratio with him and was his
Captain. with having opened his locker in
| his absence and taken from his blouse Ger.
Lieut.. Patteson stated, ns Capt. Aliens
motive. that the papers we're of a character
that would seriously compromise the Cap
tain.
lie says that one OF them was formal
statement drawn up by Capt. Allen in his
own hand. to be signed by all the members
of his company, exonerating him uhe
Captaipl from implication in some old mat
ters of little moment.
The other paper. according to Lieut. Fat
teson. was q letter addressed to him by
Capt. Allen and incloaed to him with this
formal statement. asking the Lieutenant
to copy the document aud procure tire sigma
lures Of the company To II, but entreating
him to be very. worry secret about tho author
ship OF the statement and to tear up the
original
Lieut.. Patteson has M witness only q col
ored porter. William Ringgold. Capt. Alien
admits having opened Lieut.. Patteson's
locker with his official pass-key, but indig-
nantly denies that he took or saw or knew
OF the existence of the papers which were
lost, and he claims to have several witnesses
to prove that lie took no papers whatever
from Lieut. Patteson'a locker.
The outcome of to-morrOw's court-mnrtial
will probably be the discharge from the Ma
tinnal Cinari OF Col. Hopper or Capt. Bel.
knap, Capt. Allen or Lieut Patteson.