| Show IMM I NN1 1 I T TT 1 1 1 I i r I Statue of Liberty Grafters i I 1 1 1 IN 111 1 111111 11 1 1 LIMNIMWMN I I IM11 W IN1 LMIYNM I L MMMI I MI If the visitors who paid good money to a soldier for the privilege of climbing up the steps of the statuo of Liberty had only known about the sixtysecond article of war they never would have graduated from the deadhead dead-head class on a reservation belonging to Uncle Sam the New York Herald says As It Is under the last general order from the war department de-partment two soldiers who levied tribute are doomed to penal servitude for their speculative specula-tive enterprise According to the army orders Axel T Holm a firstclass private of G company signal sig-nal corps and Edward A Bagnall of tho same grade and command organized a syndicate syndi-cate for the exploitation of the French evidence evi-dence of friendship for America which following fol-lowing the actual language of the order operated oper-ated as to Holm after this fashion He the said Holm did designedly and fraudulently obtain money from certain visitors vis-itors to the statue of liberty fees for the privilege privi-lege of going up Into said statue by knowingly know-ingly making false pretenses that such foes were necessary And as to the enterprising Bagnall That ho did knowingly assist In fraudulently fraudu-lently obtaining money tram visitors to the statue of Liberty by acting us a lookout with tho duty of actually giving warning to the man collecting tho fees In case an officer were approaching All of this according to the charges and specifications upon which conviction was made and approval then passed violated the sixty second article of war In the caso of Holm thu department orders his dishonorable discharge and his confinement for two years at Fort avenworth Bagnall gets off with reduction to the grado of private four months confinement confine-ment and the forfeiture of 13 a month Ho will work his sentence out around tho base of the statue cleaning up such litter as the trlb utolcsn visitors see fit to make The evidence showed that the two men arranged ar-ranged a scheme to tax all visitors ton cents a head for the pleasure of climbing to the head of tho goddess with the overburning torch and the story was printed exclusively In tho Herald I Her-ald at tho time Whllo one of them took In the toll the other lingered about to give tho collector a tip If an officer chanced to ho bearing bear-ing dcyn upon tho post exchange Capt D J Carr commanding tho post Is very proud of this pretty show station and ho broke up tho gamo just as soon as ho found what was In the air |
