The sun., 1919-02-21

way clients" ard the amiable ofiicer
from tao Third District headquarters
and another offlcer--Junior Grade
Lieut.. Benjamin Shadrack Davis of Ply
mouth. Pa, who Is now serving three
years for grafting--at meetings which
sometimes developed into elaborate par
ties.
show Girls Navy witnesses.
AT the court-martial at the navy yard
last July at which Davis was convicted
OF grating the witnesses who testified
included two noted beauties from the
show girl ranks of Broadway. The
chief yeoman, who has a reputation for
being ever so jolly and companionable,
wac In the censorship Office at 90 Broad
street for short time, then for a few
days was stationed at the Third Naval
District headquarters. and firing OF the
close confinement had himself appointed
by one of Daviss friends entertain
ment director" whatever that is.
Theoretically he was supposed to sup
ply Broadway talent" for something or
other. but as there is no such detail as
entertainment director, In the navy he
had no headquarters to 60 to, conse-
quently he did no work thereafter, but
spent his days and nights on Broadway
and was paid by the Government for
doing so.
The alcoholic Lieutenant Commander
told OF in THE Sun yesterday, against
whom forty-seven charges, almost all of
them serious. were made during the war
IN nfty-eisht affidavits, was still re-
ported yesterday as boasting that mo
pody can get anything on me: II they
try to get me I'll take q lot of 'em
along with me, and therell be a Captain
a.
yesterday to show that the Lieutenant
Commander had come any closer tc
trial than when the charges made
against him by Intelligence officers
some time ago were disregarded. The
investigation previously made of the
charges-all 30 far ignored-against the
Lieutenant Commander extended over a
period OF thirteen months without the
slightest apparent result.
Police Captain McKinney's SON.
One Of the men who was Interested In
the fruitless effort to have the Lieuten.
| ant-commander eourt-martialed fell Into
! the error of saying that the prelimi.
nary investigation. started many month.
ago. Into the Lieutenant Commander.
affairs was son of ''the late Police
Capt Mckinney" The Chief Yeomar
i -AASs Wio Hiduc tlle IlTst lnNe6tlKa
| lion Of complaints against the Lieuten,
| ant Commander is not a son of Polio,
Capt Charles H. Mckinney, who is nov
very much alive.
| Police Captain Charles Mckinney ha,
no son In the navy. but had a son, 10
seph p. Mckinney. who fought bravel,
In Trace in the army and was wounde,
At the st. Mihiel sector on September IL
his services winning for him the Dis
tinguished Service Cross The polio
captains soldier son died In an arm,
hospital January as a result OF tn
wounds he received and for which he ha,
been decorated.
] The sonly names of officers officiall,
revealed In the present far sweeping in
vesttgation which so far have been mad
public are those of Lieut.. Davis, VIII
Is serving his three year sentence a
Portsmouth. and two Ensigns and
chief boatswain's mate. who arc no,
awaiting court-martial These are Lieut.
B. J. Ebert. Naval Reserves, who Is nov
detained aboard the old Granite State
Ensign Paul Beck of the Navy Pa
Corps. and Chief Boatswain's Mat
Lloyd Casey of Chicago, who is held 4
this district to await court-martial o.
charges of accepting gifts"