Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-19
Hazing Investigating Committee
Anxious to Get Home.
TRYING TO FINISH TODAY
Cadet Paul Bunker the First Wit
ness.
HE WAS A UNIQUE HAXER

WEST POINT. n. Y. January la-The
committee appointed by the House OF Rem
| fesentatives to investigate the subject OF
haZlng at the Military Academy expects
10 get through with the taking of testi-
fnony by midnight tonight, but il is more
than iikety that sessions may be held next
Monday. as several witnesses have vet IA
be examined.
Inc congressman are anxious TO get away
from West Point for business reasons, and
they will do their utmost TO finish I'D 50
that they can return to Washington TO-
morrow
The first witness examined this morning
vas Cadet Paul d. Bunker Of Massachu-
sctts, who is member of the present third
class. Last night some Of the "plebes'' told
the committee that Bunker had braced
them and given them tabasco sauce during
the encampment last summer One OF them
Cadet Dillon. said that he was ,omneIled
by Bunker to swallow from Il half to a
teaspoonful of the sauce, which was given
MIN IN a camp spoon, which is about the
size of n dessert spoon.
Bunker acknowledged having hraced some
OF the plebes, but denied having ever given
more than fifteen drops OF sauce to any
one ana when Judge Smith confronted
him with Diilon's testimony the witness
said he did not recollect ever having given
other plebe.
Mr.. BUnkcr's Uaxing RepertOire
Bunker, who said he weighed about 80
pounds, measured five feet eleven one-rourth
inches. only rene mbered having hazed two
men who were his equals IN physique. The
other p,ebes whom he hazed were small
men. He had never engaged in fights
either as principal or assistant His haz-
ing repertoire was rather limited, as be
confined himself to bracins,- making men
sing out their wash lists To popular airs,
ride hroomsticks, stand on their heads and
charge sparrows with fixed baypnets.
Cadet Charles Burnet. appointed from
Illinois, president of the cadet branch If
the Young Mems Christian Associa ton, and
a member of the present first class, was
next called and sworn. In reply to Gen.
Dick. the witness said he never held any
Office in the class organizations and was
never member of the ''scrappihg COM
mittee." Last April he was appointed
president and secretary of the y. NJ. - 4.
OF the 400 cadets in the corps; about :5O
are members of the association.
Amy One May Join.
There is nothing TO prevent any one who
wishes to be y member from obtaining that
privilege. At Chairman Dicks request the
witness read from Philadelphia paper Of
December Z, 1900. an account of the funeral
of former Cadet Oscar l.. Booz The re
port elnDouleu tne sermon preicncu ON the
occasion by the key. Mr.. Allison of Bristol.
Pa The witness was then asked to and
he did identify letter which he had writ,
ten to MIR. Allison, and by direction the
cadet read the letter. which was published
some time prior to the Investigation of the
Booz case by the military cour: OF inquiry.
A letter which the witness had received
in reply, he said, was in his room, and as
Chairman Dick said he would rather have
the original than the copy of il which ap-
pears in the record of the military court OF
inquiry, the witness was sent to fetch il.
When Cadet Burnet returned with the iet-
ter it read to the committee. II mas
already been published.
When the witness had concluded the read
ing of Dr. Ailison's reply Gen. Dick handed
to him and asked him to read several le.-
ters written by Booz to the members Of his
family during the time he was at The West
ters In them BooZ had said that the other
cadets were tyrants, brutes and bulles, and
said they were doing their best 10 kill him.
He told of his fight in letter written
the day after it occurred, and said that he
had to give up after being winded He
also said that on the dag he wrote the let
ter some of the cadets told him his younger
brother had been to the camp, but could
not see him. He asked permission 20 re-
sign, saying there was honor in his
staying at West Point any longer, and that
the Military Academy was no place for
parents to send boy.