El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-02
LIEUT.. j. C. GREGG IN TROUBLE.
He is Caught ''Skinning" at EXamina

He is Caught "Skinning' at EXamlna-
tiOn.-May Be Court Martialed.
The San Antonio Express which ar
rived last evening", contains the in
| formation that First Lieuten ant John
| G.. Gregg, 4th infantry, and formerly
| of the 18th infantry at Fort Bliss, is tC
| be court ma tailed for ''skinning" 1t ais
annual eXamiuat on in the military
school at Fort Leave NV nth. That is
| to say, military sketches he h ,nded in
10 the examiners as his own work We're
found to have been done by kindly
disposed and sympathetic BROTHER o
ficer. Toe otfense is held to be a SER
iOuS one, aud the punishment Will Int
the CT me-
An acquaintance of the lieutenant in
this city says that his trouble is due no
doubt TO the officers Inability to ne
glect his important and niultifariouS
social duties for paltry army rules.
Lieut.. Gregg is one of the handsOmest
officers in the army, to say nothing OF
his being one of the most graceful
dancers and galIants in society. He
was formerly stationed with the 10th
in fol try at Salt Lake City where the
countless pretty girls just vowed tn t
Adonis himself was not in the swim
W, tn the handsome lieutenant. Il ad
Gregg c>nSeuted TO join the Mormon
church he could have had a harem
that wou d have turned all shades of
green with envy the sultan of Turkey
himself. He was the Ward Me- lister
of Salt Lake City, and no really swell
assembly was thought to be complete
without the apollo like presence of the
dashing lieutenant. The wedding was
considere q specially dlstangue affair
that could boast of him as the best
man" Why, Gregg was once called
clear to Springfield, Mass, to be best
man in a tony wedding in Christ Epis-
copal church, the swell house OF wOr-
ship in that part of the state. Then
be was an5ferred to Ell Paso on being
made first lieutenant, AID the society
girls here thought Gregg was just
something Immense. There is no tell
ing the amount of ca diacal havoc be
would have created am ing the IL cal
fair sex had he remained at Fort
Bliss.
There is no doubt at all but that
Lie utenant Grrgg's eXacting and i'm
pOrtant social functions at Fort Leav-
enworth were such tn 1t they called for
his first attentions and conSIG eratlOuS s..
Army routine was necessarily secon-
dairy mat .er, and was properly brushed
aside as more or less irrevelant. OF
course tie rules prescribed that the
lieuteoan should draw his own mill
tary sketches; but what pray, were mil
itary sketch hes compared with the i'm
pOrtance of the lieuLenant's being pres
emit at some big German 10 lead in the
prone made ana to distribute the fav-
ors? In viaw of the emergency, Lieut..
Gregg properly saw that a brother Otfi-
Ger with more leisure on his hands
prepared the required sketches; and if
when Gregg handed them in he mad
vertently signed his own name rather
than that of the brother officer afore-
said. why it was mere y one of those
oversight5 common enough in student
circles done in an inadvertent moment
in temporary fit of mental ABSTRACT
caused by the lieutenant's mind being
Overburdened, to the eXclusl ION of o sh er
things. by the functions of the gay and
festive society OF Fort Leavenworth.
The lieutenant's Ell Pa5o friends
hope he will escape unscotched of that
court martial, but at the same time
they are harrassed with doubts.