Show I TELEGRAPHIC THE COLORED CADET Ho Persists That lie is limO cent Indications ofGailt West Point 17In an interview today to-day Whittaker spates that last evcomsr ho was invited to Gen tcliotields house the latter saying that ho had cent f > r him to say that there was contideiahle hard feeling against him end asked him if he had nothing moC to nay or to make any confession and if he did that it would be god time to Co it Whittaker replied that ha had nothing further to sfty that he had told all he knew and it i was thatruh and if he had not told the truth and desired to confess anything General Schofiold would be the first mn ao would go to on aceountof tho goner alB uniform kindness towards Wbit taker mid the general advised him to collect the letters he had written lately jccause in that way it might be pos ible to ascertain who it was that hhd simulated his handwriting Hesid the general told him that ho bad his best wishes rnd Wbittaker judges from that rcmllr that the general believes he is innocent or ho never would have said it Whit laker was asked how he accounted for some of the discrepancies in his statements state-ments and he sid he could not account for them Ho argued that the presence of discrepancies showed that he was honest lor said he If I had invented tne story I would have learned it by heart and then there would have been no discrepancy repancy JJ IIo was asked how it was that ho never noticed that the writing in the note of warning was like his own He said he had never thought of it and fhe had written he wuld not have exhibited it to four or five persons lie vas asked what bethought of tho experts discovery that both of the sheets were of oo paper lie said that it didnt mount to anything bccau all cadets use tho same kind of p per and that ho wanted to ray holound the nitaof warning warn-ing on his chair bv the side of his tabln in tho evening Ho was in the hsblt of tearing whole sheets irto halves to write on and the person who wroto the note might have como to his room and taken n piece of his psper and with many samples of his hand writing before him might have forged the ncto General Schofield says asthe reportof the court iso is-o be presented to him he doe not want to ray anything on the subject Any reports of fears of disorderly action by cadets against Whittaker are premature as it is understood among them to allow the court to take care of the whole ease Prot Greener still claims that Whittakor innocent and says ho hessome important import-ant points which ho intends to make known over his own signature but not tone to-ne court How York 17The Times There is strong circumstantial evidence to sustain the charge that Cadet Whittaker mull ated himself or wM a consenting party thereto if tho act was performed by others The identification of his peculiar style penmanship in thc jocalled note of F warning is stronger evidence pgaint Yhiltaker than any which ha been re eivcd against any other person who may have been suspected |