The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-08
Asks $1OO,OOODanagss Against
 High Army Officers
LIGHT ON LIFE 1T ACADEMY
When the Case Comes In Government Courts Lieut.. Col. Ayres Declares He Will Support His Wife
 In the Action.

Richland Falls, N. Y, June 7.-After department Lieut. Col. Charles G. Ayres tonight declared that he would support his wife in the action she has instructed her attorney to institute against Supt. Hugh Scott and other officers of the West Point Military academy.
 Colonel Ayres returned this evening from New York and found the letter from Washington awaiting him. While declining to discuss it's contents he intl- mated that they touched upon the coutse adopted by Mrs. Ayres. He made 1t plain that he proposed to see his wife through to the finish.'
 Colonel Ayres said that he would not make public the letter from the war dc partment until he had first shown it to his wife's attorney, in whose hands 1t would be placed tomorrow.
 Mrs. Ayres' attorney, Mann Trice of New York, has been instructed to file damage suits asgregating s1OO,OOO against Colonel Scott. Lieut.. Col. Robert L.. Howse, commandant of cadets; Capt. Lewellyn W. Oliver, assistant instructor. and Lieut. Col Stephen c. Mills, inspee- tor general.
 Mrs. Ayres, it is understood. bases her allegations upon alleged discourtesies re- celved at West Point, and which culmi- mated in the Colonels wife being forbid den to enter the reservation. The A. res home adjoins the academy groundJ. Coll onel Ayres is at home on a leave of ab- sence, having returned last Saturday from the Philippines Hig son is cadet at West Point.
 In the absence of Fer husband, who had gone to New Yofs for the day, Mrs Elizabeth Fairfhy Ayres declined today to discuss the details of the suit for damages which 4 is reported she is about l to bring against several of the high of 1 ficials of the military academy. Mrs. Ayres said the case Is now in the hands of New fork lawyer and the formal papers in the suit soon would be served. If the case comes to trial 1t is believed that some interesting sdelights will be thrown on the social life at the academy. Under ordinary circumstances any mis- understandings In which the officers of the academy or their wives might be- come involved would be threshed out be- fore tourt-martlal and the testimony never Would be published. In this case. however, appeal Is to be made to the government courts.
 Mrs. Ayres Is the wife of Lieut.. Col. Charles G. Ayres, who returned Saturday on leave of absence from duty in the Philippines, and Is now stationed at the academy She resides just outside the reservation in Highland Falls, and under a recent order issued upon request of the academy officials, Mrs. Ayres is denied the privilege of visiting the academy grounds. The order of prohibition, which is said to have a large place in Mrs. Ayres complaint in support of her suit for dam ages, does not apply to her husband or to her son. who is a cadet at the academy. The order of prohibition against Mrs. Ayres was issued before her husband had returned from the tour of duty In the Philippines, followed long period of misunderstanding between Mrs. Ayres and the academy officials The facts in the misunderstanding are disputed, and it is believed that interesting testimony may be adduced by both sides of the conten- tion should the case come to trial.