Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-18

which he was subjected at West Point.
but when Mr.. Rooz spoke to Lieut..
Blakeley about 1t he was told the haz-
ing would stop. after the cadets got
back in barracks. He told his son he
would have to stick to 1t.
In August a Letter was received In
which Oscar said he had been In Q |
fight and had received a pair of black
eyes, and that he had been Knocked out
by a blow over the heart. Mr.. Booz
said he went to West Point TO see his
son. Oscar told his father he expected
to be hazed, but he did not want to be /
treated brutally. The father said Os-
car did not want his mother to know |
how he was being treated.
MIR. Booz then told how Oscar had
Informed him that tabasco sauce had
been forced down his throat Mr.. Booz
said when Oscar cnme home in the fall
of 1898 he was broken in health and
Was never we'll after that. While In
tents, the father continued, Oscar said
the cadets would pun the blankets from
him and pour hot wax from a candle on
his body Mr. Booz also said, Oscar
told him that taba SEQ sauce was
poured down his throat both in camp
and at the table.
Oscar spent all of last year at home
in an endeavor to build up his health
In JuneEof this year he accepted a posi-
ton With a Law firm at Philadelphia, but
was5 compelled togleaye this occupation
owing TO hts throat trouble.
In conclusions MIR. Booz said that
Oscar would never mention any names.
When he felt very badly, he would talk
of the brutal treatment he had been
subjected to, but would never reveal
the identity Of his pcrsecutors.
Mrs. Booz, Oscars mother said that
Oscar wrote To her that he liked the
surroundings at West Point, but COM
planed of the treatement he had RE-
sceived at the hands of the upper class
apen Her son told her in letters that
the place was unti for young man
who wanted to do right and that par
gents should not send their sons there.
The upper classmen. Oscar wrote,
are brutes and DULLES.
Al this point Mrs Booz trembling
rerceptibly, said that Superintendent
Mills should be made to apologize for
calling her son a liar, She said that Os-
car never told a lie or acted one. The
upper classmen. according 10 her son.
we're not fit to be soldiers.
Nellie Booz, Oacars sister testified,
that in IL letter received by the family
or Aug. q )scarstoid of the fight he had
Rad with another cadet The cadets be-
gan to taufit him and cali him a coward
and said he was a disgrace 10 the corps.
II he did not gosinto the fight, they said.
the fellows would make life unbearables
for him. He was sorry that hs went
into the fight He thought it best for
him to leave West Point and asked his
father for permission 70 resign Oscar
1cscribed many little indignities which
were I,racticed on him
The sister. in answer 10 "A question,
Isaid that Oscar told her that If che had.
Ilsot swallowed the tabasco sauce he
lwould have strangled. They were hold
ling him down, and he could do nothing
else.
pr. Willis Weaver. Of Bristol, the
Booz family physician. testified To the
general failure of Oscars health after
he returned from West Point, but re-
| fused TO say whether the condition of
This throat could have been induced by
drinking tabaseo sauce.
1 Rev DIR. Ailisnn paid q high tribute TO
1.-the character of Oscar Rpoz. Altar the
young man had entered the academy
! he received a letter from Oscar in
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