Show The Whittaber Case New York SrTribunes Washing ton apropos of the recent court martial case says A western congressmairre cently met in St Louis a young man who was a classmate of Cadet Whittaker at West Point but wlio is not now in the armyNowJJ Now said the congressman you are no longer in the service and have no interest in concealing the facts I want you to answer the question Did Whit taker cut his own ears No he did not was the reply but he had to be got rid of in some way that would prevent the sending of any more niggers to West Point A Tribune reporter interviewed an army officer here who said Of ccurse I cannot speak officially but I have pretty f good reason to believe that the court sentenced I sen-tenced Whittaker to be dishonorably dismissed from the service kto be imprisoned l im-prisoned one year and to pay a fine I cave heard that thia was substantially the unanimous verdict of the court and that six or seven of iU members recommended recom-mended that in view of certain mitigating circumstances the sentence of fine and i imprisonment be remitted I |