The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-28
Officers Are Made Party De-
PENDANTS in Inquiry
MOTHER IS COMPLAINANT
It Goes Over Indefinitely--All the Men
Involved to Be in Court and
viii BE Represented by
Counsel.

Annapolis, Nd, July 2s.-The Sutton
inquiry was adjourned yesterday indef'
nitely. This action was taken on a
ruling Of the court that Mrs Sutton
was q complainant in the case and all
the officers concerned in the affair were
made party defendants.
The hearing will not be resumed until
Lieutenant Utley, another party defend
ant, returns from abroad.
Sentry's Story Surprise.
Private Charles Kennedy, Mondays
unexpected witness at the inquiry into
the death Of Lieut.. Sutton, was on hand
against yesterday morning to answer
any further questions that might have
occurred to the lawyers to ask him re-
garding his remarkable knowledge Of
the happenings that surrounded Lieut..
Sutton's death Even more than Mon
day his cool and perfectly collected at
titude was noticeable. Not once during
his testimony has Kennedy faltered or
hesitated or gone back and corrected
himself, as practically every other wit.
ness in the case has done
Kennedy is a good looking young pri-
vate Of marines, with the priyate's usual
tremendous respect for officers high and
low. He said in a perfectly natural
way that he had kept quiet about the
sutton case because Lieut. Utley had
told him Ia he also told Of how, when
the fight FIRST started IN the lower part
Of the grounds, he went away from the
spot without informing the corporal Of
the guard, because ii was an officers
affair.
One Of the most striking features Of
the case brought out by Kennedy's tcsti.
mony Il that kennedy was never called
upon to give his story Of the case, either
BY Col Doyen OF BY the court Of inquest
that FIRST passed On the case Kennedy :
name was not mentioned in connection
with the Sutton case until it was
brought to the suttons BY secret infor.
nation during the course Of the present
inquiry. And yet he was the sentry on
duty at the time Of the fight on \
post from which d large part Of tile
trouble could be seen. It appears, a.
facts are known thus far, that not 4
single effort was made by those who
should have done 30 to obtain Kennedy )
knowledge Of the affair at that time.
A visit made to the scene Of the SUIT
ton tragedy Monday evening BY counsel
for the suttons and others confirmed the
possibilities Of all that Kennedy had
testified to seeing. The roads branehed,
As he said, to right and left, and the
point on the right hand road from which
he watched the scnfie between the off
GERS and sutton was quite al Ne de-
seribed. The electric light which he said
hung over the heads Of the four as the
struggle went on On the road was In
the place where he described It. Appar.
emily when the party moved away from
the light Kennedy did not distinctly see
the second fight between Sutton and
osterman, but he testified to having
heard the angry voices Of the officers
at this stage Of the affair
Kennedy's story digerges from that Of
the two ehauiFems. Owens and Griffith,
at the start for he says that he saw
only a single automobile. The chauf
fears say that they heard some one call
for @sentryl7 as they rode away. Ken.
needy, telling . slightly different version,
says that sutton called him BY name,
Kennedy!s and the chauTeurs, riding
away, might easily have mistaken the
cry Kennedy for eScntryl''
Kennedy testified to having given over
to utley before leaving the fight the
clothes Of sutton, which Sutton had
handed to him. II il not clear what BE-
came Of them after Utley took them,
nor why utley sent Adams down to the
scene later, 81 Adams testified to act
them.
Kennedy instead Of confirming the
story told BY Adams and 0sterman that
sutton ran away toward camp the first.
has it that Adams led the way to camp
himself at a brisk run, and that sutton
wallged toward cap alone, the last Of
the four Kennedy tells Of hearing but
four shots instead Of the five testified
to BY some 81 the other witnesses, ana
he tells Of hearing a voice. following
the last report, cry out, "Are you shotf
In all these respects Kennedys testi
mony differs from that Of other wit
nesses. He also has made no mention
Of seeing either Sergeant Dehart Of
Lieut.. Roelker in the party that night.
The occasion Of tTtley's telling Ken
nedy to keep quiet about the affair says
Kennedy, was when Utley picked up Che
revolver on the parade ground. That
was next morning. says Kennedy, At
company inspection utley picked up
the gun and cautioned Kennedy not 70
mention either the finding 81 the gun
or the matter Of the shooting to any