The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-16

napolis, Stewart A. Hamilton, son of l H. H. Hamilton, president of the l Whiting Manufacturing Go. of this city, was exonerated of the charges I made against him.
 Hamilton was one of the seven mid- shipmen first arrested at the Academy 1 on the charges of obtaining advance information about examinations. His exoneration created great pleasure here because he had already been rec | commended for dismissal Nothing in \ the charges against him and a dozen others could be substantiated. MT. Hamilton is a, graduate of the Bridgeport High school, class of 1912. He was prominent in athletic life there.
 Two midshipmen were ordered dis missed from the Academy, 12 others disciplined, and radical changes in the method of examinations recommend l ed as the result of the inquiry. On the recommendation Of Secre- tary Daniels, President Wilson has signed the orders of dismissal, and the Secretary, following recommends tions from the Chief of the Bureau of the navy, and the Secretaryis Advisory CouncilA has approved the penalties imposed in other cases.
 The fraud related mainly to exani- nations in French and Spanish. It was reported that copies of the exam
 
 through the malls to certain n1idship-. men. who gave others the chance to benefit by the advance information. Secretary Daniels appointed a court of inquiry, which sat for about forty-f1ve days, beginning June T. 4i
 The court consisted of Captain Rob ert l. Russell, who had been Judge Advocate General of the Navy for four years; Captain A. T. Long, and Commander [. R. de steiger, with Lieut. Commander ". c. Watts as Judge Advocate.
 Only two of the seven Tnidshipmen originally accused of .gouging'' were sentenced to dis1nissa1. The original seven had been recommended for dis nlissal by the Superintendent of the academy on the ground of having seen a mimeOgraph of examination sheets which were intended to be given in the annual examination this year, they knew that they had had in their possession a copy of the exami- nation papers before they took the | trial sixteen midshipmen were intro duced as parties to the inquiry as being possibly involved in certain ir- i reguIarities.
 mendations of the Court of Inquiry
 have been approveds
 t Dismissed. Midshipmen Ralph M Nelson, Jr., and Charles M. Beagle.
 Turned back into the succeeding
 class: Midshipmen leonard P. Wes- sel. James D. Waddel. Horace R.. l Whitaker and William H. Hopkins.
 IT.
 To be placed at the foot Of his class Midshipman E. B. Hough Commi ssion as ensign withheld | three months and restricted to limits Of ship or station for that period.. Adidshdpnan R. Burhen. for attempt I fT7er
 segrega-ted by order of the court
 To receive seventy five dernerits: Midshipman Davis Click, who was found to. be involved in irregularities
 other than those connected with the iexaminatton.
 To receive fifty denerits: Ndidship- men Herbert w. Jackson and Albert
 F. Hutson, for being parties to the l transrnission of a threatening letter from Midshipman Nelson to another 1 nidshipman to prevent him from giy-
 ing certain testimony.
 To be reprinanded for having seen
 turbine sheets.' or engineering reel | tation questions, although having had no part ii original acquisition of these t sheets: Midshi pmen e. O. Keu, H.
 E. Oyeresch, and c. c. Vickrey.
 F. B. Hough on several occasions,
 in company with Midshipman R. M. Nelson. Jr.. surreptitiousIy took s'tl1r-
 bdne sheets which he used,
 In the case of NGidshi prnan Nelson the court found that he had an ad- l vance copy of the examination papers
 that he dictated the contents of two
 fourth-class examination sheets to l about ten fourth class men, that he 4 visited the Academy buildings at un- I authorized times for the alleged pur- T pose of obtaining his marks; that on
 one or more Of these occasions he took
 so-called turbine, sheets which con-
 tained questions to be asked in recita-
 lions in the Department of Marine Es41-
 gineering and Naval Construction;
 that he prohted by these turbine | sheets and obtained a, higher positi on T in his class than he was entitled to, fl and that while the Court of Inquiry
 was in session he sent an intirni dating l message to a lower class nidshipnan.
 a probable witness, and partially sue
 ceeded in an attempt to communicate
 with another midshipinan witness who
 had been segregated by order of the 1 court.
 In the case of NIidshiprnan Beagle I the court found that he entered the l Academy buildings surrept ptitiously and
 obtained advance information on reel tatfons and eanninatfons and that he changed his testimony before the court
 so materially and in a manner so di- I rectIy conflicting with his previous an
 swers tas to cause much comment 7
 The court intinates that he had been | guilty of false swearing.
 In addition to those made parties to the inquiry, the findings give the names of 11s members or 63 4 per cent. 1 of the first class, 159 members or 80 I per cent. of the second class as hav- I ing had prior to the examination in some form varying amounts of the so- called dope that later proved to be
 a substantial portion of the recent an nual examination, and state that it is
 probale that there were other mfdship- men who had similar dope"
 1 Evidence before the court shows that 66 midsipmen whose names are therein mentioned had surreptitiously and
 without authority visited one or more I of the various departments of the A