Show HE SAYS IT WAS NOT lOU I ARMY CHAPLAIN ACCOUNTS I AM CLl FOR IS UNSTEAY GAIT Claims to Be Auilicted With Chronic Ailment and Will Call Upn a Sat Lake Doctor As Wltnus I I San Francisco Dec 71n the Shields eourtmartial today the ccU tll chaplains c9unsef Lieutenant Lerby Ettnge oC the SIxth cavalry asked I for a continuance or two weeks In or der to allow the chaplain time In which to obtain afdavits as t the condition of his health and his character of 5 bniety to 1se came acre Irom sort wortn Lea I anti he ccaimn that there are army surgeons now stationed there who will testfy that he Is afflicted with a chronIc ailment whIch at tm deranges de-ranges his gaIt and general behavIor In such a way ns to create an impression im-pression among those who are not aware of his physical state that 1e I3 under the influence of intoxicants i And he furthermore avers that he Is I able to procure unlimited and Indisputable Indisput-able testimony that his character has always been that of a conscIentious clergyman Jurge Advocate GrossIth advisement took the request under advIseent The evidence for the prSCotO was completed today I The court granted Shield request and adjouted subject to the call of the president lnterroatorieS will be I sent to Dr Charles D Plummner at Sat Lake Dr Foot late major and surgeon oC volunteers at LewsburS Pa and Major Polhemus surgeon of the U S who Is supposed to be In St Augustine Fin Each Qrthe three physicians Is asked what the I state or healh or the chaplain was when he was under their observation and If they er prescribed stimulants for hIs peculiar condltcn I I ChaplaIn Shields stopped at theNce yon hotel for a few days whene was In Salt Lake He said that he had remained re-maIned over to see the city andto vilt Dr and Mrs Plummer who were old frIends of his He spent much time with them and became quite well acquaInted ac-quaInted about the hotel He Is a rather small sized man with an Important p11baud mapacr a ds I much looser and freer mainer rsa tion than most mIqlster 9 teIsPc I In fact were he not dtesse In chaplains chap-lains uniform he wbul Je taker for I a ordinary army oca I |