The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-19
DETRIMENTAL 70 BOOB.
oxy ADDUCED At WEST
.,xr HAzING INQUIRY.
rhst He Engaged In n Fist
- with Cadet ke''"r-"as
s and, His Companions
80. Later showed Unfairness.

I'D OF inquiry
:, bristol, Pa, yesterday, ar
eH rnIIitary academy at ] o'clock
Us sr At $50 this afternoon II
ne Investigation OF the charses
- and brutal treatment mace py
.s.ts OF former Cadet oscar l..
10 died recently at MS nome
No. - pates and Clouse and
~ bLoo Questioned the witnesses as
peEn nt az hazing in the academy,
amp and barracks. ,oo,
IL, belonged until he resigned
like p p Or october, 1893, were sum-
,n The court. and We're brousht
AZ and kept in anterooms IN the
~ n .hs sixty-eight cadets of the
- were examined during the
- e'hs sid ali of them who knew
11n. - that his standing with his
ts vas not very high, as they
~. Ian him as a coward. The story
XXI XXI with Kellar, in 1893, was told
sssf). ". Tyler, who SECONDED Booz'
Essstsa by the court why he did so,
= uooz asked me to be his second,
4 s.,,Id not well refuse.
evu ~ the witnesses denied that
Q vi hoziug occurred. and two of
sNcribed the 'bracing' and setting
~" a. only correctional meas
2 "a neither injurious nor humiiiat-
III denied that BOOB n az p pe,,a,n ins
~ tendencies. Cadet .. N. Tyler
saw the Fight.
.. present at the fight"
~ IA vou see there?"
~ II KeIlar. Hayden. spaulding, De
- Herd and Brownell.'
4. refereed the fight
Ssn't remember. sir, a.,
IN ~ mere knockout blow delivered
~ III. Booz was nit IN tine region
~ ~ aid the wind was knocked out
=. mere any blow delivered I'm the
4 y re hearth
4. X q fair fight?'
~ III; II was"
~ there any marks on Booz AFTER
4 II; Re had a black eye and a cut
y IN 4 complain to you of any injuries
n I told him that did not think
s*sd exactly fair In the fight. The
! msn was smaller and lighter. He
red me to be his second and
y ot veil refuse"
4 Cause and Brooke the witness
y lad never been made to take hot
a NJ he had seen II given In the
nom. II was given in a spoon,
~ more than three or four drops.
11yer saw 1t given to Booz. He never
vof anyone In his class being injured
king,
"a vou know OF any hot grease be-
6opped on the body OF any OF the
Il your class?' asked Gen. Brooke.
~, H. At night some times some one
" come into the room and remove
dolkee on the feet of the men in
anh on examining the feet some
u candle grease would fall on
Heroic Treatment.
~ THIS dropping accidental or inten-
MI think II was Intentional. but
y not hurt much was the reply.
ndAd l. Zane, when asked II he were
ehased replied:
N Dir. was subjected to athletic
" you ever know anyone to faint
hasing?' asked Capt. Dean.
haye heard such reports, but / think
n<n only pretended to faint"
xlsf on the witness said that he had
N Cadets Caldwell and Orr sit in
latd position on a chair for a couple
minutes about two days ago.
wy DID you do this?" asked Gen.
hrasse they had helped themselves
a'sert before the first classmen." was
xompt reply
80 Robert II. Ralston answered
80 Of questions as to the practice
AAsng fourth classmen sit In a con-
~ position at table and he de-
MS as correctional measure"
va not hazing. He described the
which the men were served at
moe which was according to their
said Gen. Clouse. 'if a man
" hmseif before an upper classman,
srd % considered an act OF rude
=. ~ lmpoliienessY'
~ inc classes had declared against
~ exercising, has there been any
"a ~ of manilness among the meng'
q Gen. Bates
M ! think not
n Religion No nar.
wv yen a feliow-communicant OF
n ~ <ra
~ aas your attending &c your re-
uuties lowered you In the esti-
your classmates or caused any
Nak disrespectfully of your read
wv hipleT was the next question
Gen. Rates.
II w. 4 has not" was the earnest
Yssa D. Vernon sald no d,d nnt see
III. between Boog and Kellar, but
INV sSs'f afterward and his face was
~ ~ Mas bis standing with his class
@ considered a coward. and his
was not very high"
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