The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-25
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would be glad If Stiles would resign;
that he had another man in his mind
who would make a good colonel of the
regiment.
Musician James Tague was called BY
the prosecution, the orderly reporting
that he was mot in town"
A call for Private Jake Shannon and
Private Harry White to take the stand
met with the same announcement, and
| the next witness was Captain G. W
Holbrook who denied any connection
with or previous knowledge Of the egg
! Throwing. and that he never had been
| in Rosenbaum's Office until last night.
Sergeant William F. Power was called
to the stand and asked to produce the
pany A. The witness said he mad been
| notified by Colonel SITES TO have the
records in court this morning, but he
had given the key TO his desk to Cap
| tain ARIEL. whom he had been unable TO
find last night.
At this tuncture Captain ARIEL interior
ed and stated to the board that he had
lost his own key to the desk and had
borrowed Powers key! and when spoken
TO yesterday about producing the rec
ords he found that IL lock TO phe desk
had been tempered with, and the key re-
fused to open the lock. He volunteered.
however. to produce the records if the
board so ordered, even If he had to kick
the desk open. The board concluded to
have the records produced, bat sent Ser
geant tPower to get them. but they
showed nothing after all to implicate
Colonel Bonhoff in perjury (Which was
the evident purpoge) as the sergeant tes-
titled that Bonhoff's name was not placed
upon the roll until January, even though
he had enlisted some time previously.
Frank Wilson was next called, but the
board was informed that he was not in
town.
Captain Bonhoff was recalled and asked
If he did not have a conversation with
one T. Westbrook about the assault.
The witness admitted that Westbrook
came into his place of business and &C
cused him Of being one of the egg-throw-
ers, end the witness thrheatened to give
him good beating. The witness ala not
remember a conversation yesterday even
ing with Fred Jaynes in which he in
formed the latter that 1.-The inquiry was
coming on all right; that the members
of the company were standing pat. and
that only one - had gone back
on them" nor that he had said that
Rosenbaum was keeping the boys in
whisky and cigars and they were having
a good time.
Fred Jaynes was called and swore that
he knew Otto Bonhoff. but Gid not re-
member such a conversation with him as
outlined by the prosecution. or that he
had said as much to Colonel Stiles last
evening. Finally he was asked If he had
motto said the same thing to Captain
Douglas not ten minutes ago, when the
witness weakened and inquired of the
board if he was obliged to repeat a con-
versation held in confidence,
The board held that the conversation
was not privileged, whereupon the wit
ness reluctantly admitted that Bonhoff
had made Their emark substantially as
given, but did not mention Rosenbaum
as the person who was supplying the
and cigars.
Sergeant /. c. Booth testifiged that he
knew nothing about the egg-throwing ex-
cept what he had heard or read. He had
a conversation with Rosenbaum on the
subject some time after the assault, but
could not remember what was said.
Lieutenant Bert Orner, who is stenog-
rapher and typewriter in the adjutant
generals Office. testified to hearing Ros- |
enbaum express regret over the egg
throwing incident. He swore positively |
that he had no previous knowledge of the |
assault or Of the eggs being distributed. |
The witness gave in detail his move |
ments on the evening Of the assault, hav- |
ing been at the armory most Of the time |
IN companyw it'll Captain Arran, the only |
exception being for a period of about |
of an hour when Arrall |
left him to meet a young lady and es- |
cort her home. The witness, Arrall and |
were lunching together at a |
restaurant when first informed of the |
assault, and soon after went home to- |
gether. On the morning after the assault |
the witness to remember where he had |
been the night previous. He was not |
aware that Rosenbaum had supplied |
money to purchase the eggs used in the |
assault. The witness identified the let |
ter received by Captain Douglas express
ng regret that he was accidentally and |
included in the assault, |
ana said that he had written thel etter
himself at Rosenbaum's dictation, and |
that the latter had signed 1t.