The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-02
o1n OUTLOOK FOR BAMFoRD.
TO BE COURT-MARTIALED ON
NJ ROMEYN's CHARGES.

conduct UnbecOming an ohcer and
gentleman the Accusation
ainst Him-Charge Arises over
~. conduct in Relation TO His En-
cement With Miss ROmeyn.
mt Carter Scores the Young
man BrummeI without Mercy.
,1snta. Ca, May lit appears that
,sr Frank Bamford, the young Beau
1.,.,nu1el of the garrison, will be the sub
- the next court-martial at Fort Nc
1.,.rson. Oficial charges have been made
.u,irst him by Capt Romeyn, and for
I'D to the department headquarters.
charge is conduct unbecoming an off,
and gentleman, and is based upon
-. renudiation or denial of the existence
any engagement of marriage between
f,nself and Miss Nina Romeyn, the
s,oqhter of the officer who has fled the
ab,rqes. If the gay lieutenant is convict
- of the charge he will be dismissed from
-. service. The charges were Immediate
!, hrought about by Lieut.. Bamford's ac-
rim in voluntarily going to one of the To-
80, newspaper offices and inserting an in
tsrview in the paper declaring that he
al never been engaged to Miss Romeyn
olthougb he had allowed that impression
20 On abroad on her account, though with
the understanding that she was to con-
tr,dict the report herself, which she re-
fused to do.
The present court will not try the BAN
Ford case. To-day Geographic orders were
racAived from the department dispensing
+ba court as soon as the Romeyn case
sbau have been finished, which will be
Monday.
cant Carter, commander of the com
ranv of which Lieut.. Bamford is lieuten-
ant gave some sizzling testimony in the
Ponoevu case as a witness in sur-rebuttal.
- lent Bamford came to see me at my
quarters after this court was ordered"
Re said and brought up the subject, I
rad heard that Lieut.. O Brien claimed that
M engagement existed between Lieut..
Pamford and Miss Romeyn. l asked Lieut..
Ramford to tell me the truth about it, He
said. I was engaged for two weeks, or
what YOU may call an engagement ex-
isted but asked Miss Romeyn to break
Il off for obvious reasons
,Did YOU ask her father for her hand?
asked. and he freely acknowledged he
had done SO.
afterwards saw an exhaustive news
paper statement in which Lieut. Bamford
denied his engagement. 1 asked him: is
It true that was published with your con-
sent. or through your instrumentality?
He said 1t was true. / said to him: Be
fore you did such a thing, you should have
had your tongue cut from your mouth.
You should have sworn on a stack of BIZ
bles as high as the heavens that the young
lady was right and you were wrong. You
would then have had the respect of gen
temen. I asked him to make correction
of the publication. I asked him if he did
not remember that one day walking with
me towards my quarters he had acknowl-
edged an engagement. He said he had
never had such a conversation with me.
Mr. Bamford,' said I, you have told a
wicked deliberate falsehood. Further than
that you have told a willful, deliberate lie.
In the future want to have nothing to do
with you except officially. Get out of my
Office at once
Miss Romeyn was put upon the stand
again this afternoon, and told how Lieut..
Bamford had discussed a little party which
was to be given by himself and Lieut..
Shaw. He wanted to know who was go
ing to pay for it, and said that he did not
have any money. This Inundated the
young lady, and she demonstrated with
him for IL. Miss Romeyn also said that
she had had conversation with Col. Rus
sell, commander of the garrison, the even
lng of the trouble on the parade ground.
The colonel said the slap in the face serv-
I'd Lieut.. O'Brien right; he did not see
what else Capt. Romeyn could do. Then,
referring to Lieut.. Bamford and Mrs.
OBrien Col. Russell remarked that he
Fd not give a continental blank about
|Fheir Irritation, that any man would do it
when the woman gave him an invitation.