The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-28
|HEBS MUST Be good
OTHERWISE THE FIRST-CLASS
MEN WOULD "SMAsH THEIR
HEADS"
MORE EVIDENCE IN BOCZ Gas
TELLS OF THE STRENUOUS LIFE
AT WEST POINT
ACADEMY
BROTHER OF THE DEAD CADET
Swears to the Court That Oscar Was,
in His Estimation, Neither
UntruthfuI Nor
COward1y.
MOEE EVIDENCE IN BOGZ CAS-
BROTHER OF THE DEAD CADET

WEST POINT, N. Y, Dec 27.-There
was an unusually large attendance of
spectators at the military court of in
quiry today, including Horace C. Booz,
a civil engineer of Buffalo and p. o.
Phillips, of East Cleveland, who was
heralded as a congressman, but told the
press reporters that he was never elected
to congress.
The formers testimony was principally
a refutation of the statements made
about his brother, former Cadet Oscar
L. Booz, Of Bristol, Pa, who died re-
Gently. Several of the cadet witnesses
during the progress of the investigation
accused Booz of having shown cowardice
in his fight with Cadet Keller in August
1898, and they also accused him of un-
truthfulness.
Lieut.. Coe, instructor of mathematics
in his testimony last week stated that
Booz was not possessed of sufficient men
tai capacity to pass the necessary exam
ination at the academy. His brother
stated today that this was not so as the
manner in which the former cadet had
passed his examinations at the prepara-
tory school at Buxton, Pa, was sufi-
cient to prove that Oscar was possessed
of sufficient intellect. He said that Os-
car was not untruthful and he was
anything but a coward.
PHILLIPS EVIDENCE.
Mr.. Phillips principal reason for ap-
pearing before the court was to show
that he had never visited the academy
in 1898 for the purpose of saving his son
from being hazed. He stayed here for
about ten or eleven days in August OF
that year, shortly after the fight between
Booz and Keller had taken place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Booz stopped at the same
hotel with him, but neither of them COM
planned of their sons treatment. He said
that in his opinion Booz was not of the
kind of material out of which good army
officers could be made.
One of the witnesses at the morning
session informed the court that he had
seen Cadet Breth so far exhausted from
severe exercising that stimulants had to
be given him in his tent in 1897. In the
afternoon two other cadets of BTeth' S
class said they had seen him in nerv-
Gus condition, his body, arms and legs
twitching after he had been hazed, but
one of them said he believed Breth was
pretending prostration.
There still remains thirteen cadets of
the first class to be examined. They
have all been away on Christmas fur
loughs and will be back tomorrow. Sew
eral fourth-class men will also be ex-
+. amined and j. Smith, of Carbonda,e, Pa,
a former cadet, is expected to be on hand
to tell what he knows of the hazing prac-
lieu at IAlS dCduSlHy' II Is pOSS1IAO IIlS
court will get through by Saturday.
Cadet Peace, in reply to Gen. Clous.
said that he had known of about eight
fights having occurred during the first
two years he was in the academy and
about nine during the next two years.
HORACE BOozs EVIDENCE.
Horace C. Booz, of Buffalo, N. Y, a
brother of the late Cadet Oscar
L. Booz, had not seen his brother
during the time he was in the West
Point academy in $685. Mr.. Booz con-
tinued:
Il received a letter from him shortly
after he went to the academy. In it he
said he felt strange at the place as 1t
was his first experience away from home
In the second letter, which I got at the
beginning of August, he told me that he
would be called out to fight in about a
week. He complained of having had to
take tobasco sauce and suffered from a
sore throat in consequence. He claimed
that it was forced down his throat and
he had to swallow it or choke"
In other letters which 1 got from him.
the witness added "he complained of
being hazed, and said that he was being
treated more severely than others. Later
in the year-about October, I think
he wrote to me and suggested that my
father allow him to send in his resig-
nation. Oscar was not fresh, and was