The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-19
WEST POINT CADETS TESTIFY
Continued from First Page.)

The first witness called was William
 IA. Mitchell. In speaking of the hazing
 he had undergone he said 1t was hrac-
 ing and exercising. He did not know of
 any hazing of Booz. He said that such
 thing might have occurred without
 his knowing. He said that he swal-
 lowed, but not under obligation, what
 is known as tobasco sauce.
 The next witness was Henry M. Dal- lon of the class of 1902. He said he
 knew of no hazing of Booz, and was not present at the fight between KeI-
 lar and Booz. He saw Booz after the
 fight and he had smile on his face as if he didn't care.
 Cadet Orfeld N. Tyler said he was present at the fight and as a knockout
 blow Booz was hit in the region of the stomach. He said it was fair fight and that Booz had black eye and a cut over the left eye. He had seen the hot sauce given in the mess hall. It was given in a spoon but not more than three or four drops. As to hot grease
 being dropped on the body of any of the men in the class he said that some one would come into the room and re- move the clothes off the feet of the man in bed and in examining the feet some drops of candle grease would fall on them and while it was intentional it did not hurt much.
 Myron s. Crissy gave the same de- scription of the ''hazing" he had re- ceived, as the previous witnesses. In regard to the tobasco sauce forced down the threats of fourth class men the wit ness said it was never done.
 Did you ever take any of it your self?"
 Yes sir, on one occasion I was asked to hold out my finger and some tobasco sauce was poured on it. I was told to lick it, but I licked the other finger and made a face, it was the face they wanted to sec"
 This reply caused some merriment among those who heard it and one of the generals laughed.
 Edmund l.. Zane, another classmate of Booz, said he did not know Booz very well. When asked if he were ever hazed the witness replied Yes, sir was subjected to athletic exercises"
 'Did you ever know any one to faint from hazing?" asked Captain Dean.
 T have heard such reports, but I think the men only pretended to faint Cadet Dougherty, a colored man, now a first-class cadet, was made to stand up with his head thrown back, so that he was looking upward, and he wore rain coat to keep him warm. Dougher- ty tainted, or rather pretended to do so."
 Later on the witness said that he had made Cadets Caldwell and Orr to sit in a strained position on chair for couple of minutes about two days ago.
 "Why did you do this?" asked Gener al Brooke.
 Because they had helped themselves to dessert before the first-class men, was the prompt reply.
 Cadet Robert R. Ralston said that if a man helped himself before an upper class man it would be considered an act of rudeness and inpoliteness He said that the act of attending his religious services had not lowered him in the es- timation of his classmates or caused any one to speak disrespectfully of reading his Bible.
 Charles $. Perry said he never knew Booz very well, nor did he know of any with him or stunning of him in regard to his religious beliefs or practices.
 Cadet Wade H. Carpenter described | what sort of haZing he himself went | in camp in '9S. He said he was | asked to do athletic exercises and brac- ing, but that he was asked to do noth- | ing which humiliated him.
 What is your idea of hazing?" asked | General Brooke.
 "The doing or performing of some thing which one would not care to do of | his own accord" was Carpenters reply. | He said that at his hazng he had taken 1 a few drops of tobasco sauce, but it was not injurious. The reason Booz left the | he said, was that he was low in his mathematics and his eyes were weak. His legs were also weak and he was not a strong man. Booz, he said, was considered coward and his stand ing was not very high.
 Before the next witness was sworn General Clous moved that, from the scope and character of the investiga- tion, it appeared to him that the com mandant of cadets and superintendent of the academy should be present, as the evidence might involve their stand ng in the academy. General Brooke hen sent orderlies for Colonel A. l.. Mills, the superintendent, and Lieuten- ant Colonel Otto Hein, commandant of ,adets, and they were furnished with separate tables and chairs. John c. Pegram of the class of '9S aid that Booz was untruthful in say ng that he and not Booz was turned Il the wrong direction on parade one ime. He was looked upon as a coward ,y his classmates, but was not inter- cred with on account of his religions ctions or belief. There was no hazing n the academy only bracing in the anks and sometimes out of ranks, and 3ooz had never been subject to any haz- ng to his knowledge. Cadets John H. Gilbert and Edward $ Ioran were the last witnesses called. l They corroborated the evidence of the i ast witnesses, and the court adjourned ] t o'clock to reconvene at 9:30 o'clock s o-morrow morning. io