Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-05
DOING STUNTS
At ANNAPOLIS.
Easter Had to Hang From Clothes
Locker, Stand on Head, Eat
Under Table.
SOME MIDSHIPMEN iNv0Lv WE'D.
several Declined 10 Testify on the
Ground That They Might ln-
crlrninate Themselves.

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Annapolis. Mu'' Jan o'a' p'o.
reedIngs before the court.martial
,.h,ch 10 trying Mldshipman Worth w.
~, A,ha,v Ind for tho
Foster oi Ne" n"s 80
alleged hazing Vi Mi's"'p"'"i N"eSeVt
Roberts, were OF interest, as not
-, ,,ore some new forms OF hazing
'n'' ~ h 80 ,,,,na,s.,
explained ou' tue '''''e' Va
who sought TO pc excused from answer
,g questions on the ground that they
,ould incriminate themselves indicates
"ou'u NV '"'. so,,oa :, harr,.,
how thoroughly 'he prae'''o VI """'s
mas permeated the institution.
rha court ruled thai a mldshipman
80" ,aar,,o,,a,o h,,nse,s 20 be dia not
nla ho' NV '''' ,,s 49,.
actually take part N himself vat
sven after this explanation several mid
lhlpmen asked to be excused from an
,yerng questions, saying they would
ncrlminate themselves II they an
,wered. The record of yesterdays pro-
readings in Decatur's case was verified
md some small changes made in the
record of Midshipman Goiiln's trial.
The court then took up the case OF
Nldshipman Foster.
NJ october and December Foster hazed
Roberts by compelling him to stand on
his head. to hang from the clothes
locker and eat under the table. Mr..
rheall. Fosters counsel objected to the
Indifferent nature of the time alleged
for the commission of the acts. He sa d
that he was not able TO properly prepare
4 defense when the time was so uncer-
lain and asked that the judge advocate
be- compelled to specify more exactly.
The court was cleared 10 consider his
request
Foster pleaded not guilty TO the
charge and all the specifications.
Nidshipman Chester .. Roberts was
the first witness. He identified the
accused by name. He appeared most
reluctant TO testify against the accused
9nd parted the question OF the judge
advocate until Capt. Rees, the 'prest-
dent of the court, cautioned him that
he was under oath to tell the whole
truth IN the matter. He then said tina,
about two weeks after the school had
opened Foster had ordered him to re-
port to Fosters room and he had done
so. Foster had ordered him to go In
the small room and that some one had
then held his thumb in four positions,
succession to tell his name, where he
was FROM whom he succeeded In the
academy. and to get on his head,
He was compelled then to do MINI
Der l6" and then to hang on the locker,
both Of which he did. He then was
asked II he could do any better at the
table. The witness answered that he
had done his best before and was then
ordered 10 hang on the locker again,
Roberts said that Foster then sent him
for Mdshipman Cleyenger. Foster and
Decatur were in the room, he said. ana
he believed that Foster had made the
motions with his thumb.
Midshipman William H. MANNER OF
the second class was the next witness.
Counsel asked that the witness be cau-
toned that he need not give testimony
which would incriminate himself. He
was then asked II he had seen Roberts
sent under the table at any time and In
reply, asked If, in answering this ques-
ton in the affirmative he would be in
eliminating himself by admitting being
present when the hazlng was going on
and not reporting Il. The court ruled
that his mere presence would not in
eliminate the witness. He then said
that Roberts had been put under the
table, by Mr.. Foster, he thought.
Midshipman G. X. Hyatt. William l.,
Beck and Paul II, Rice, who followed
on the stand, gave testimony corrobor-
ating MANNER.
Midshipman John C.. Campbell said
that he had heard Roberts ordered UNI
der the table by Foster. This was the
fret ,,,itnass bofnre Roharts xyhn said