Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-19

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who have testified before the naval
court Of inquiry in connection with the
"cribbing' and other irreguiari
ties in the examinations among the
midshipmen at the Naval Academy.
the first one to say that he saw a
copy Of the alleged original examina-
ton paper, other than the seven orig
inal defendants 70 the inquiry. was r..
II. Jones, member OF the former third
class to which three of the defendants
belong
Jones, who is a roommate of T. W.
Harrison. Jr.. one of the defendants.
was the first witness before the court
| this morning and he testified to hav-
ing seen the paper containing eXami-
nation questions on tie table IN his
| room lie said the paper was spread
| about with dozen or more similar
papers but that he did not know The
questions were those for examination
IN modern languages. as il bore no Ie-
gend or other Identification marks
He said that the paper was one of a
number of others that had been sent
through the yard" mail TO Midship-
man Moss. of his class Moss, he said
frequently received such papers aud
other information through the mail
throughout the academic year
RE said he had no knowledge of the
sender of the papers, and that Harri-
son had never discussed with him the
purport of the paper he had except 20
say that il vas good dope" He was
asked whether Harrison made any at
tempt to conceal enythingfrom him as
to the nature of the papers. and he re-
piled in the negative. saying that oil
of the papers were spread out in the
open on the table Wness said that
other information Moss had received
from time to time included problems
in mathematics. that had all been
worked out, and he gave il as his be-
lief that Moss had some good friend
among the instructors
Jones said he knew Moss. Harrison
| and Duncan we'll and said that the
class as a whole held them in the high
est regard as to their honesty and in
tegrity. L. A. Mitchell was the next
witness, but ne knew nothing CON
| cerning the alleged advance eXamina-
tioon questions Replying TO "A ques-
ton Mitchell said he had heard that
examination Questions could he bought
in the past, but not since he has been
at the Academy. lie could not give
any specific instance Of these rumors.
A further indication Of the thor
oughness Of the methods which the
court is employing 10 uncover the al
legged Irregularities. developed this
morning by an additional question put
to each OF the witnesses who was
heard. This question has bearing as
to the possibility Of some one reapne
a pecuniary benefit in giving out ad-
| vance information Ia other words
the usual question as to whether a
witness ever saw or heard of an ad-
vance copy OF the examination uues-
tions being in circulation, is followed
by the interrogation OF whether wit
ness had ever heard of reports that he
would be permitted to see a copy Of
the questions for a stipulated price
But IN every case todaythe reply tC
these questions were of the negative
Midshipman C. DeV. Headlee wa.
the last of the second class midship.
men heard by the court this morning
and his answers were along the sam,
line as the evidence Of those who pre-
ceded him on the stand.
Four members of the former fourtl
class were examined before the moor
recess was taken It is generally un
derstood that the move of the prosecu
ton in this regard is to show the con
nection that Ralph Nelson. a membet
Of the class that was graduated tw,
weeks go,and who is one Of the orig
inal seven defendants. had in the dis
semination of the alleged examina
ton questions It is claimed that Mel
son had in his possession OF an exac
copy Of the questions. and that be i'm
parted the information TO a number o
the former 'plebes"
The witnesses examined on thi
score were Arthur. S. Adams, RobeT
Pool. r. s. Whitten and Harold Biese
meier. Pool said he had no dope
whatever on the examinations. an,
Whiten had only heard reports Of IT.
circulation. Adams, in giancing owe
an examination paper shown him b,
the Judge Advocate, identified seyera
of the sentences which he said h
knew Of prior to the examination
He said be had been informed Of then
verbally, and that it was a matter o
common knowledge among his class
Harold Biesesmeier, who. it an
pears, is one Of the leading scholars ii
his class in Spanish. told the cour
that he translated o number Of sen
j tances a.ad otI-o,. -. -. ..--...