Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-01-06
AARZONI BEFORE THE COURT
TAGGING CUSTOMS AT AcAD.
ENVY DISCOVERED.
A Practice Not Testified TO In ANY
of The Previous Trials
Weird Forms of
Hazing.
ACCUSED PLEADS NOT GUILTY
TO THE CHARGES.

| with haZing. brought TO light the ex-
istance of tagging customs at the
| Academy, a practice which has not
| appeared in evidence at any of the for
| mer trials.
New forms of hazing aud several
new aud weird formulate forming art
| of the hazing ritual were also related.
| A midshipmau was hazed, he stated,
/ because he did not repeat "baZoo'
| correctly and another was told by an
upper classman to report TO another
with the following query "If she
| had been a dog, do you think she would
| have taken it ?" The name of Mid
shipman Stephen Decatur, Jr., who
was acquitted on the charge of haz-
| ing. was also brought into the present
| trial, he being the one, according to
| Midshipman rye's testimony. had
sent the strange Interrogation by him
to Midshipman Mfrzoni.
The message led to scene in the
closet. Decatur was also mentioned
by witness in the case against Fos-
ter as having been in the room when
he was hazed.
MARZONI ARRAICNED.
Marzoni was aTraigned shortly after
| the opening of the court and plead
not guilty to all the specifications and
| the charge The first Witness for the
prosecution was Chester S. Roberts,
whose alleged hazing forms the basis
of the first specification. Roberts an
swered, on the whole, more freely
| than ne had in the case against Fos-
| ter. where he was the chief witness.
In the former case of the fourth class
man had to be admonished by the
court on account of the evident reluc
| fo xrrst l, MI f0lN ho vau ua h fc
However, he was not very clear that
Marzoni was the midshipman who
had hazed him.
Roberts said that he had been told
| by Decatur to report at MarZoni's
| room and had done so. There were a
| large number of midshipmen in the
room and he did not know Marzoni at
| the time. He was ordered TO go in
| the closet by someone, he said, and
| then told 70 do the sixteenth. - This
| he did and Marzoni told him he could
| stop. He said that he did not know
| whether Marzoni was in the room
| when he went in or not. He thought
| that the same voice had conveyed all
| three of the orders to him. but was
not certain that Marzoni had said any
thing to him except to stop doing the
sixteenth.
The next witness was Howard II.
J. Benson, a fourth classman from
| Macon. Ga. He had been in the
! closet with Roberts, he said, and Mid.
shipman Gather had also. been there.
| He did not know who had sent Roberts
| there or who told him to do the six
| teenth - He could not even identify
Marzoni rs having been in the room.
| His testimony, from the standpoint of
the prosecution was, therefore, un-
satisfactory. and there was no further
testimony relating to this specifica-
tion.
Lieutenant Commander Decker. who
is attached TO the department of dis
cipline at the Academy, was intro
dued at this stage to testify that there
was no authority which gave an upper
classman a right to compel midship.
man to stand on his head or to do any
other physical exercise except in the
course of the regular drills.
MADE A FAC OF HIM.
Midshipman Benjamin w. Tye, of
Atlanta, Ga was next called TO tht
stand. 1t is alleged that Marzoni
made fag of this youngster by com
pelling him to bring him breakfa 81
whenever the former cared to stay in
his room Tye said that he sat at the
table pres ided over by Marzoni and
the latter had given him the name Of
"Ascot =" He had been told, he said
to bring Marzoni his breakfast when
ever the latter was not present him
self. He had carried him, he said
such things as milk and rolls. H'
had done this on several occasions
one of them was the Sunday after th'
West Point football game and another
was about a week previous to it.
On cross examination he said that h'
performed these services as courtesy
TO Marozni. He did not think of am
consequences if he failed to carry the
breakfast and did not feel humiliateC
by it. Still he would not say that i
had been a pleasure exactly. One o.
the occasions of bringing food to thl
accused was December 4, he said, anC
he remem bered it because it was tn
Monday after the West p oint game
An effort was made to show that thi
services were snch that any midship
man might have done it for another
He rememered, he said, seeing Nagel
of the first class, carrying Maroon
his breakfast about four times
In answer to questions of Professo
Alger, of the court, the witness sale
that he had been told to discontinue
the bringing OF food by Maroon ant
the occasion when he had seen Mage
bringing articles of food to Maroon
were all after this. The counsel 70
the defence sought TO give the eros
examination q wide range in order T.
obtain statements showing that th
Young men were treated in such
way as not to iDjure or humiliatG
them. He elected answers that the
had improved in general health sine
coming to the Academy and had re
ceiyed kind treatment from uppel
classmen in some particulars. Th
court stopped that line Of questioning
! however, when he Sought to shoI
that fourth cIassmen went to the foot
ball game at Princeton on the sam
basis as other midshipmen.
The last witness for the prosecution
was Fourth Classman Albert Q
Bryant, a young Georgian, whose al
legged hazing by Marzoni formed tn
basis Of three of the specifications. ID
said on several occasions he had car
ried articles like butteIed rolls or
glass of milk TO Marzoni's room. ID
had done this, ne said. because Maroon
had told him to do it whenever b