Show = = USED AN ANCIENT MAP I 1 Lieutenants Gregg andLinsay Under Arrest for Cribbing1 Kansas City Qtab Please sir may Jim and I go out of the n I Mas Lleutennnt John Gregg of the United States regular army at Fort Leavenworth who ske Jim was his ever present ally Lieutenant James Lindsay The yard was three miles each wav But boys you are under strict arrest ar-rest replied the gray haired commandant command-ant of the post Colonel Hawkins Your You-r alloweid to go no farther than the nurrCv boundaries of the reservation three miles ech way unless with my special permiFSion I must keep you under strict surveillance but as tills is only the third trip to Leavenworth today to-day you may trlI Gladly the young officers scampered off to have their carriage called Proudly they wore their shoulder straps for the two were the most talked about men to Luivenworth If as they walked the rattle of chains smote the ear of a passerby if guard f 1 musket loaded l and bayonet fixed kert pace with the imprisoned men ifkeeneyed army detectives watched suspiciously the every move of o the lieutenants it was all in the imagination im-agination of the onlooker The young men were freer than salvation they were officers of the United States army under arrest The court martial which was to have begun the trial of Lieutenants Gregg and Lindsay today for scandalous con duct has been postponed Colonel Robert Rob-ert H Hall of the Fourth infamry commanding Fort Sheridan Ills has been detailed as inspector to Investigate Investi-gate the charges against the young men and if he finds them worthy of punishment the court martial will then be ordered Colonel Hall will go to Fort Leavenworth at once and his Investigation I In-vestigation will be finished within three or four days Meanwhile Gregg and Lindsay who are quite the darlings of the regiment will remain at tlhe post under the rigorous confinement tow to-w h they have been subjected since their arrest on June 16 The officers are accused of gouging f g or cribbing in final examinations i I of I I the United States infantry and cavalry school which they have attended for two years and from which they graduated grad-uated two weeks ago I is charged by Captain Beach Instructor of field engineeringin The school that the lieutenants used an old map in making mak-ing a drawing O a road 17 miles long over which the 33 officers in the school were supposed to ride after 830 oclock one morning and complete their sketch before 545 D m Its a misunderstanding about the instructions says Gregg Its absurd says Lindsay I The work was a reconnaissance The officers rode over the course at a trot making notes and observations as they went and upon returning tv > the drawing draw-ing acUdemy were supposed to work up a sketch from iCiat they had seen and Llndsav and Gregg claim from nat orher aids hey could find This sketch was expected to shy the cuUvated lands for some distance on either side I of the road the houses elevations creeks and other things of importance in a military map tfcdt might l > e taken advantage of by 0 commanding officer in Time 01 war in selecting favor ble fighting grounds camping places fording ford-ing streams and cmpng Nonv tihey do say that the officers in question turned in a map that would have been as good as gold a few years before so many changes were made along the road Because 9t was not an uptodate mip Cain Beach made a fuss and the two young gentlemen were arrested just as they were leaving leav-ing for their posts alter two years at the school which is a sort of post graduate grad-uate course for West Point Lindsay even had his berth engaged heft Vta l engg berth waited for the passenger that never came He Is stationed with the I E1s5ih infantry at Fort Russell Wyo I wMle Gregg was detailed frrm the I Twentysecond infantry Fort Cook I I Te accused officers say their instructions instruc-tions were to use any aids they could find in making the sketches Therefore fore 1 they used an old man l was justifiable But whether they did or they didnt whether it was a do or a dont all the girls in Leavenworth grls think it is just horrid that the officers are under arrest and are Ifable to be dSsmlssed from the service Both have attended many Kansas City social functions and are well known In Kansas Kan-sas Cltv society A man who went up to Fort Leaven worth yesterday saw large bunches cC red thpe neatly tied up lying about He went to see Colonel Hawkins Colonel Hamkins Is not to be approached with Imiunfty He has e big iron fence and a retinue of servants and an army of soMJers to keep you off his grass All things come to hrm who waits and Colonel Hawkins came at last l but Colonel Col-onel Hawkins congealed and would not talK about the court martial I Lieutenants Greg and Lindsay were worrying away their young lives at the Fort Leftvenworth club The former used tt be a newspaper man he gars In Pennsylvania and his idea of a good story and a joke on a reporter Is to sit down and write out a statement for hir hirNtow Ntow here Is Dtelc5e Harding Davis I wrWns about Sofdiers c Misfortune Misfor-tune he said as he poised ti pencil above his dukes j Yes we are soldiers of misfortune I laughed Lindsay Misfortune in I goo I They are cheerful even in the close I I confinement in whMi they are not kept ard the bread and water which they are not allowed We secured an Investigation before the court martial was ordered said Lindsay You know even if I a person Is acquitted by n count martial the pea pip 1 forget that and remember only that he was tried and for some offense That is no way to treat an officer Give officers offi-cers an Inspector and then 5f he finds them guilty take them out and shoot Mum without any court martial bus about it ness i The sItt picture of Lleutenantj I Gregg shows ten medals on his coat They are mostly for marksmanship He graduated with much honor at West j d I I I Point in lIST and was sixth in the class of 33 at the school ot instruction I I Lindsay finished 16th In a class of U < at West Point I |