The San Francisco call., 1910-06-15
WITNESSES sure
HAND WAS SOBER
Five Employees of Quartermas-
ter's Department Testify to
Captains Condition
Officer Advised by His Dentist
to Use Brandy to Relieve
Pain of TOOthache

Contradictions of the charges against
the trial of the accused officer yester-
day. the defense introducing a number
of witnesses who declared that he was
sober on May 3, the date on which it is
alleged he was under the influence of
liquor the second time.
Five employees of the quartermaster's S
department at the Fontana warehouse,
Frank NJ. Carter, Louis B. Brandt, John
g. Bliss. George Chaplin and Walter r.
Redwood. testified that they saw Cap
tain Hand on that date, took care of
him on the fourth floor or drove with
him to the general hospital, but all
were positive that he was sober save
George Chaplin. woh declared that
Hand was suffering from extreme
nervousness.
A DEFINITION OF DRUNK
Redwood assured the court that the
captain was not, in his opinion, drunk.
but later gave his definition of that
state as follows: IF I see a man. stag
gering from the building to the curb,
letting out warwhoop every now and
then, insulting everybody and wanting
to fight everybody he meets, l will call
him drunk-but not before. Maybe If I
saw him drink about two quarts of
whisky and stagger around the room l
would think he was drunk, too."
DR.. t. II. Morris, Captain Hands dem
tist, was called to the witness stand
and declared that he had frequently ad-
vised Captain Hand to fill his mouth
with brandy, oil of cloves or tobacco to
relieve the pain of toothache.
Frank S. Burr, a friend of Captain
Hand, testified that the defendant had
been with him at his room at the Hotel
Tallac in this city from March 25 to
March 29, the period of his absence from
the transport dock, and was in a nerv-
Gus condition, but at no time under the
influence of liquor. He said that Cap
tain Hand asked him to telephone to
the dock that he was i'll. This he had
neglected to do, as the line was busy at
first and he forgot it later.
TO TAKE DISPOSITIONS
Questions and cross questions were
sent to the following: Colonel Joseph
Fl. Dorst. Third cavalry; Colonel James
Parker. Eleventh cavalry; Colonel II. M.
Andrews, First field artillery: Colonel
E. d. Hoyle Sixth field artillery, and
Major Charles Mepoher, First field ar
tillery, with all of whom Captain Hand
saw active service in the Philippines.
This morning General Thomas Nc
Gregor u. S. A, retired, will be the
first witness, to be followed by Captain
Hand.
The transport Buford, which was to
have sailed today, will not leave for
about week, orders to that effect hav-
ing come from the quartermaster gen.
eraL Too much ice fills the rivers of
the north still, but the transport is
ordered to be at Seattle on June 26 to
meet the Sixteenth infantry and take
that regiment to Alaska. On the return
trip the Buford will bring the Twenty
second infantry from Alaska to this
city en- route to Fort Sam Houston,
Texas.
Captain Pierce A. Murphy, First cav
airy, who has just returned from a
months leave, left yesterday for Wash
ington, D. c., where he goes to act as
counsel for Captain S. P. Lyons, Twen-
ty-fifth. infantry, who is to be tried be-
fore a court martial.