Evening star., 1925-07-05
IS TO FACE COURT
IN VANDALISM CASE
Publicity Also to Be Used as
Weapon in Alleged Gettys-
burg Defacing.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The star.
GETTYSBURG, July 4-Prosecu-
ton and publicity will be the weapons
used hereafter against persons defac-
ing monuments, markers and other
property on the battlefield here. ac-
cording to James B. Aumen, assistant
superintendent of the Gettysburg Ma
tional Park and prosecutor in So
actions already started against men
and women in IL States, who are
alleged to have written or scratched
their names on Government property
on the field.
"If battlefield visitors seek pub
licity, we will give 1t to them through
the newspapers of the country, along
with Federal prosecutions which
carry stiff fines" Aunnen declared,
when he laid the SO informations be-
fore United States Commissioner
While here.
OF the SO men and women named in
the informations, all but one are
alleged to have inscribed their names
on bronze tablets on the second floor
of the 44th New York monument on
Little Round Top, one of the show
memorials on the battlefield The eX-
ception is S. f. Ocker, Harrisonburg
whose name and address were found
on the Col. Hannibal Day tablet, on
Ayres avenue. near the wheat field.
Two Defendants Fined.
Since the informations have been
laid two of the defendants have been
fined, one cannot be located, and the
case against another has been drop
ped.
The informations have been for
warded by Commissioner While to A.
A. Vosburg, assistant United States
Attorney for the middle district of
Pennsylvania, at Scranton.
Pending disposition of the remain
ing 40 actions, the 44th New York
monument has been closed to visitors
and a guard has been stationed at
Little Round Top with authority TO
arrest on suspicion any person en-
deavoring further to despoil the me-
mortal. The monument, a two-story
caStle-like structure, is of granite and
is one of the most imposing on the
field, located on the highest point of
Little Round Top.
Most of the names are written on the
tablets with lead pencil, although a
few were inscribed with chalk, and
still others were scratched on with
pins or some other sharp instruments.
the superintendent stated, adding that
the damage to the tablets will exceed
several hundred dollars.
Addresses With Some.
Besides some names also have been
written with addresses. which simpli-
f1eS the prosecution. Photographs of
the defaced tablets have been taken
and will be used as evidence. since
there are said to be no eye-witnesses
to the alleged acts. For this reason
some of those named may claim that
their names were placed there by
others. Most of the names are said
to have been written within the last
two months. as dates accompanying
some of the signatures disclose, al
though some go back as far as last
August.
Aumen has been commended for his
action. Among those who have eX.
pressed themselves as heartily approx
ing his action are Thomas L. Pfarr
the quartermaster general of the
Army, who supervises the battlefield
and the United States attorney for
the middle district of Pennsylvania.
Among those persons whose names
have been found and against whom
action by the United States attorney
for the middle district of Pennsylvania
is still pending are: Furman McDon-
nell, George Moffat, Hugo and Annie
Wyborg, l.. c. Warner, A. Yingling,
H. Gunderson, Annie Hurstan, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Mark, Loala Mark.
Robert Mark, jr., and Albert Souther-
land, all of Baltimore. L. NJ. Jones
and Ike Rullmann, Falls Church, Va.
Oswald Campbell. Washington, ID. c.,
and Mary Ann Conn, Jonesville, Va