Show = = THE COLORED CADET probably His Own Mutilator Now York iihe Herald has a special to the effect that the colored cadet ingeniously wounded himself According to its own showing the Heralds story of Whitakers self inflicted in-flicted injuries at West Point aro utterly baseless No other journal intimates anything of the kind and the Heralds story is merely tho surmise of its special and seems to be based on the testimony of a colored waiter who said I think there were cadets rooming near him and an officer under him and as ho bad a gun in his room that if ho was visited by persons in masks and allowed them to beat him and tie him up he has not a particle of pluck and is a disgrace to the colored race The Herald belief is i partly bolstered by the fact that Whit akcr stowed the colored waiter sometime some-time ago the mysterious noto he had received re-ceived cautioning him to keep awake Tho Tribunes special says oftho West Point outrage Thero is a belief that they are southerners because of the exclamation ex-clamation made by one of them Lets mark him thc way they do bogs down south The plain facts of the care have been forwarded to tho secretay of war for his action Poughkeepsio Whitakcr says of the men who assaulted him last night that ono was tall and the other short both masked One struck him with an Indian club which was blpodsamcd clippd hh hair and cut his car Ho C knew nothing more until ho was found by the doctor Whitakcr was then taken to the hospital stripped and examined Not a bruiso was found on him and tho I doctor telling him he was not hurt sent him on duty Gen Schofield says every cadet has been examined and none has any knowledge of the affair He says Whitaker is not a brilliant scholar and says as the examination comes next month he might have put it off a year by going to the hospital Ho has always I bean a quiet modest and welltreated student Should it be discovered that this is hit own doings ho will be dismissed dis-missed in disgrace The intimation was i pretty strong that Vhittaker was his own persecutor Gen Schofield however slates that this theory is merely conjecture conjec-ture and the final result is not yet t reached |