Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-02-02 | Page 1 | Social Scandal Results in Naval Court Martial

SOCIAL SCANDAL RESULTS IN NAVAL COURT MARTIAL Much Excitement in the Boston Upper Especially Among Women Boston Feb 1 Its a womans fight said a naval officer as he left the court martial trial today of Paymaster George P Auld after hearing the wife of the man that the young Burlington officer is said to have attacked testify that she made a special trip to Washington to get Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Senator Lodge to press the charges against Auld Women omen predominated In the court room today while the presence on oti the witness stand of ot half a dozen young women of the naval dancing set gave the procedure ure of a naval a decided feminine touch From the testimony te today toda that the quarrel quarrel rel ret which the men took up originated over overa a B photograph of Miss Dorothy Hesler Healer of Evanston Ilk III which Dr E B S Cowles or Boston is said to have carried from the too room of Dr A S who Is coupled with Mr Auld In the charges and who will be lie tried later Dr Cowles whose claims claim as a physician clan cian were repudiated by b the state au an authorities today toda said that he carried the picture an away ay by mistake and that when about to return It Dr Robnett called Iii led him by telephone and ordered him In em I phalle language to return the picture at once or take the consequences con Dr Cow lea accepted the latter alternative and anti ai i that Mr Ir Auld carried out the orders nt Dr Robnett which resulted in the a aI assault on December 11 at the hop Miss Heeler Healer corroborated the story of the taking of the picture and ald Id that Dr Cowie asked her to meet him aol ana wanted to send senh her fower She disliked dilI d him and so did her frier Miss 1188 Virginia Swift a Ii daughter d of the tha tl 9 teenier former commandant Rear Re r Admiral Swift Then Mrs frs Cowles went on the tb stall staiti She testified that she was surprised t to learn nearly near a R month after atter the incident inci I that the matter had been closed elo ed Mrs Cowles Is expected to tu her bar I testimony tomorrow