The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-29
DID CADET CARRUTHERS FINISH
AFTER A FIGHT WITH
A SENIOR
PROGRESS or H!ZlIG INQUIRY
UNCLE SAM'S WARDS ARE NO RE
SPECTORS OF FATHERS
SONS
CADETS GRANT AND MARTHUR
Had to Take Their Medicine as Well
AS Others blessed With
Less Famous
Sircs.

WEST POINT, Dec 2S-!The taking Of
testimony by the military court of in
quiry in regard to the death of former
Cadet Oscar L. ifcoz will be finished at
the West Point Military academy toner
row afternoon Today investigation
brought out testimony to the effect that
cadets had been EaZed to 4 degree of ex-
haUstion. The victims mentioned par
ticularly were Cadets Macarthur and
Haskel.
Macarthur himself denied that he had
convulsions, but ackn 0wledged that he
had been exercised TO such an extent
that he had cramps in his rauscles and
that he lost control of them. Iiaskei IS
not in the corps Low, so that his testl-
mony was not available.
Cadet u. S. Grant told of the ordeals
through which he was put as fourth class
man. He said he felt no i'll effects from
the treatment afterward.
Several Of the present fourth class men
told of what forms of haZing existed
during last summers encampment While
there We're a few cases of men being
made to stand on their heads there was
very little exercising done which would
show that the majority of the cadets are
living up to the class agreement made
last year to abolish severe haz.ng meth
DDS
BOOZ WAS "WORTHG. .ESS.-'
Did you know Cadet Booz?" inquired
Gen Clous of Cadet Dent
He was pointed cut to me-" sad
Dent, "and I was told that he was con-
sidered to be very worthless"
Former Cadet John r. Doyle, OF Phil
adelphia, who was in the academy from
1883 to June 1900, testified: Il remember
Cadet Rooz. I spoke to him after his
fight with Keller. ! told him he had not
acted right in that bout; that he ought 10
have gore on. He spoke in such way
30 me that showed me he was tired of
the place and wanted to leave"
Were you ever hazed?" asked Gen.
Clous.
Yes I took pepper sauce, as much as
a teaspoonful and Il half at one time"
was the reply.
Did you ever have to eat any disa-
greeable food?"
Yes sir, on one occasion. l had to eat
some preserved pineapple.
Then the witness made a grimance and
added
But there was plenty of quinine mixed
up in it,"
Did you know Cadet Breth or know
him to be haZed?"
YES. sir. saw Cadet Bender exercise
him and saw him exercised to the point
of exhaustion. but le went as far as
he could CO. He was Of 4 very nervous
temperament When spoken to suddenly
he would tumble all over. l knew him
at the preparatory school in Baltimo- e
and there he was found physically de-
1icient by Maj. Wynnc. mean deficient
TO enter this academy"
Cadet NJ. N Nichols, of Connecticut,
said he belonged to the third class, and
was in camp in 1899. He was exercised
then and and did 250 eagles.
He was also braced and ffung to the
ST hIlt rot al AT the same
sion.
DO you know of any cadet having
tainted from eXercising?"
Yes; I remember the case of Cadet
Haskell, who is not now in the corps.
SONS OF THEIR FATHERS.
Cadet Ulysses S. Grant, grandson of the
late eX-pTesident of the United States,
who is a third class man, was the next
witness. He stands second in his class,
the leader of which is Douglass MacAr-
thur, a son OF Gen. Macarthur, COM
mander of the United States forces in the
Philippines. He was examined by Gen.
Clous, and said he was admitted to the
academy in 1899.
''Were you hazed in that year?"
Yes, sir; did eagles, held out dumb
bells did footballs and other exercises. -
Did you do any hazing on fourth class
men yOurself?'
SSs 4i4rdNlS IIS1iI DTdCS ala 90 some
foolish things
Any eXercising?"
mo, sir; there was a class agreement
against that"
Lieut.. Eugene P. Jervey Jr., an in
etrnctor of languages at the academy
was sworn. He had Cadet Booz in his
class in 1898.
IN reply to the court the witness said:
'Booz was not of a particularly healthy
appearance. and did not seem to be sure
of himself. He was not particularly
bright, and not very quick. He looked
like man, who, the more he had tc
learn, the less he seemed to know. His
marks in the first week were proficient
but steadily declined"
DO you think he would have passed
in English at the January examination?
Il think he would have just passed.
was the reply.
Cadet Douglas Macarthur, of Wiscon.
sin, leader of the third class, testified thai
he had been hazed, but not to exhaustion
Do you know of any cadet fainting
from hazing?"
Yes; J. ]. Murphy. of the present
fourth class. I assisted him to his tent
I found him lying near the ice tank He
did not tell me what he had been required
to do
Witness denied having been seized witt
COMMISSIONS but admitted having beer
exercised until he had cramps in his
muscles.
The testimony of Cadet Charles t