The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-15
COLONEL Is WORRIED
CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE
COURT OF INQUIRY's BUSINESS
BECOMES PUBLIC
MEMBERS 4 ARE CAUTIONED
Col. Pennington Exhorts Every One
to Refrain From Giving Out In
formation-- CrOss-Examination
Capt. Bond Says Mai. Hand Was
In Command.

Col. remington has grown wise, he as
sempled himself in high court of secrecy
again yesterday amorning and continued
In the same until 2 o'clock in the after
noon, then he adjourned and exhibited
himself to the assembled reporters, but
his face told nothing of the days hap
penings as last resort-and luckily the
court room had been left open when the
| court adjourned-a visit was paid to it's
emptiness.
The extreme coldness of some members
OF the court had frozen large fragments
and truncated sections Of evidence into
solid chunks and all that was required to
convert them into streams of living testi-
mony was the genial presence of the re-
porters.
A chunk found hanging to the chair
where the colonel sat was first thawed
out. 1t was about the size and shape OF
snow ball and unfolded tale Of Col.
Pennington's displeasure. 1t told that on
the convenirg of court Col. Pennington
expressed great surprise that the pro-
ceedings were still being published In
full In the morning papers and he said he
could not understand it. Again he ex-
horted all present to refrain from giving
out any Information whatever and it had
the desired effect for each was questioned
as he left the building and not a word
could be obtained.
After the proceedings of the day before
had been read and corrected, Col. Du Val
took up the cross examination of Adjt
Catlih. He elected nothing that could by
any possibility be construed into culpa
bilitS on the part of Col. Leonhauser
l0,1 al I'D
the force Of Catlins direct testimony and
get some admission that Col. Leonhauser
had not used sufficient precaution on the
night OF Feb. 4. Col. Du Val even went
so far as to present badge to the wit
ness that hadinscribed on 1t 'Remen, Der
the call to arnlssof the Tenth Ohio, Thir-
ty-first PENNSYLVANIA and First cavalry"
and asked him to identify 1t as the coun-
terpart of many such that were worn by
the men in camp. The plain intention. of
Col. Du Val was to show that the wear
Ing Of those badges was an incentive to
mutiny and that Col. Leonhauser In the
discharge of his proper duties should
have suppressed them.
The IDENTIFYING question was objected
to by Capt. Crossaeld, who is also acting
as counsel for Col. Leonhauser The
room was cleared and the court deliber-
ated with the result that the objection
was sustained.
The cross examination of Adjt Catlin
consumed nearly all Of the session, but
time was found to let Capt. Bond tell his
story. He was questioned by Col Hunter
and testified that on the evening of Feb
he was away from camp attending the
coroner's inquest, and returned about
midnight finding the camp perfectly
quiet, he had remained up until 3 O'Clock
in the morning, or until 1t began to rain
and, seeing no signs of any disturbance,
had retired. ~
| In the morning he was in his own tent
examining some witnesses, who were to
testify at the coroners inquest until
about a:15, coming out of his tent about
that time he saw numbers of men all
running in general direction, and fol-
| lowing, he came upon them surrounding
the comniissary building. He did his best
to restore order, but his commands were
met with shouts of derision and one man
struck him ir. the stomach with the butt
of his gun and the captain retired from
the unequal combat.
Capt. Bond also testified that Col Leon
hauser was not present during the trouble
and only returned when it was over and
that Mai Hand had been in command If
the regiment.
Some one had asked Capt Bond why he
didn't use a six shooter, to which he re-
piled: "To hell with a six shooter and
he was not armed during the trouble.
Examination by Col. Leonhausers
council and characterization by Col.
Du Val will be the order of business this
morning.