The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-25
GRAPHIC STORY OF HaZING
TOLD BY FINAL WITNESS IN THE
 INVESTXGAIION.
N F. Cunningham, Formerly a Tent mate of Cadet Macarthur, Declares tho Latter Was Driven Into ConvulsiOns- College Hn2tng Not Like That at West Point-Asony of Some of the Forms.

Washington, Jan. 24.-The committees which is Investigating the hazing at West Point academy had before 1t to- day the last witness who will be called on to testify. He was N. r. Cunning ham, a teacher at the Hamilton Insti- ute, New York city, formerly cadet at West Point and tentmate of Cadet Macarthur who was severely hazed, according to the testimony adduced at West Point. Before beginning his tes- timony MT. Cunningham stated that it would not be voluntary, but would be given because he was summoned. He wanted his friends at West Point to un- derstand that.
 Cunningham described the hazing of Macarthur in July, 1898. He said he reeled into the tent after being hazed and went into convulsions. He was Writhing and moaning so that witness covered him with blanket to prevent his means from being heard by the off1- cer of the day. MacArthur's inquisito1s after the hazing, he said, were very much exercised over what they had done and were anxious to see him re- stored. The convulsions, MT. Cunning
  utes at time. Macarthur, the next morning, was urged to go on sick re- port, but declined to do so.
 After the last hazing Macarthur had been informed that owing to the plucky fashion in which he had stod the ordeal he would not be troubled further He said Cadets Hill, Haskell and Kensel suffered from hazing. Hill qualified on peach pie" and afterwards suffered from convulsions, requiring medical as- sistance. Haskell suffered the same night as Macarthur and witness heard Haskell had convulsions. Medical as- sistance was not called, but Haskell was worked over for some time. Kensel went into convulsions.
 The witness heard that cadet had choked Kensel to prevent his uttering cries. MT. Driggs brought out the fact that Cadet Howes also had been hazed into mysteries. The witness was hand ed list of cadets and specified num- Der reputed to be severe hazers.
 Commenting on a statement by Gen eral Ludlow that college hazing and West Point hazing" were the same, the witness said: T refute that statement. went through college before went to West Point and know there IS nothing in the colleges like the hazing at West Point" He described hazing as nothing :. short of torture.
 He gave a graphic account of the agony suffered in certain forms of haz- ing which fairly sent shudder through the listeners. Men were hung on bars, their feet up, so that when they trapped from exhaustion the knees struck on the wooden floor several feet below The fatnting man was again hoisted up arfd again repeatedly dropped from exhaus- ton, striking on his knees. He gave in detail the horrors of the sweat bath and related the sufferngs of Macarthur from this form of torture. Cunning ham said the object of calling out was to place a trained upper classman against an untrained lower classman The result was inevitable. In conduct ing fight the purpose was to cut up the face of the lower classman before knocking him out. An upper classman had said to the witness that a certain fight was not correct because the lower classman's face was not cut up suffi- ciently
 He was also told of lower cassman being in the hospital for a week after a fight, and then his face was said to be sight to see" The witness said cadets from foreign countries, admitted by congress, were "bulied and both cred" in the same way. He mentioned Cadet 1glesias, related to President Ig" lesias, of Costa Rica, as an instance, and also Venezuelan cadet
 When the witness said he had not the facts through indignation, ! MT. Wanger said: "Then you are to be on maintaining a seren- ty of mind while narrating facts which cannot fail to arouse the indignation of any one who hears them" Cunning 1am's testimony appeared to produce a deep impression and at its conclusion the committee went into secret session. The hearings are now closed and the will give it's attention to the repor..