Show NEITHER COVARD NOR 1 i 1 Cadet Calet S Brother rother Denies 1 i L lent Coes C oe Statement 11 ta t j jI I I I I BRETH HAZING i i ALSO VENTILATED r I ore Interesting Int eres t lUg T i i Ii I 1 i Concerning West Vest Point Case C i L Lf tt f I f I West Wast Teat Point N i Y Dec Dee 27 There ere was J f an unusually large attendance of s pet spec q I t talon at the military court of inquiry to 1 I it day Horace C Boos a civil en in er of ot a I Buffalo and P O 0 Phillips 8 of East Eit t leve Cleve leveland leveland i land who was heralded as a congress congressman man Sian hut but told the press representatives i that he was never elected to congress con w were r the chief c f witnesses wit The formers former s i testimony te was principally a repetition thion of the statements made about his brother former Cadet Onar Jr L I Booz of Bristol i ff Pa who woo died recently re Several of the tha Ir cad cadet t witnesses during the of ot the tile investigation Invest had accused Booz of ot k having shown hown cowardice in his fight with 10 i I Cad t Keller KEIler in August 1 and th they v also aIM accused him Jaim of untruth untruthfulness i 11 Lieutenant Coe COt instructor of mathe mathematics I matics mati Of In his testimony n last week we k stated I that Boos Boo was no DO possessed PO of sufficient L mental capacity to pass l the nere n necessary sai v ex I f 1 at this thin academy Hi His Hie brother j r S stated today that this was w not so JoO is as the i I manner in which the former cadet adt t had hart passed his examinations at It thE tiu pr jura tory school Rt at Bu Bustleton Pa Ps was wa a r I dent ot et prove that Oscar car O was a poh poo d I of sufficient Intellect He said O Oa r was Wui not untruthful ard aid he was wa anything but buta a coward Mr liIl I p principal reason reat m for or ap before the court was to show that jha L he be had haa not visited the academy in lx isi s for the purpose of saving Baving his bis son lSon from being hazed hated Oa 0 0 of the witnesses at the morning session informed the court that he hf had bad seen Cadet Breth to o far exhausted prom from rom severe exercising that stimulants had ha to be given him hint in his tent In 1897 a the afternoon two other cadets of das class said they had seen een him in a nervous condition and his hit body arms armM and legs twitching after he had been hazed hut bt b t one of them said faid he believed Breth was pretending prostration Jt It was learned after the court ha hal had l ad S t Hora e fio Bo had not v bis his testimony He Ne was summoned by the court and arrived h he last S Satur j I Iday day after the court had until j after Christmas General G Brook q ner j jk al at Bt anu GraI Clous oft lt 4 to take k Ma his e testimony t im on Saturday i lao but ne ftc i I objected saying sa that he wished wi hed a as am mu m publicity given to his in his hn i brothers brother s behalf as had been given to t i th the testimony te against R him on the grounds of untruthfulness s and arid cowardice The Breth Broth Hazing Razing Cad Cadt t Willias G C Peace of North aro c of the first class clans cia was the first wit witness I ness fleas today He saw aw former Cadet Breth 1 hazed In 1897 The Th witness s alter after being frequently asked to describe de the forms ot or baring to Which Brah was subjected re reI j 1 1 I think llY they were th the usual terms forms J i m m so i BUt aut clubs dubs until ul it became tiresome and other things thing Which nr w in i vogue at that time Breth was wasa a avery vary awkward man roan and did not seen seem SP to fc b able to do anything right Iff Ih wa was to nervousness and was easily rattled I 1 got a letter lotter from Breth re about t six ida 1 I m months t after he lie left here In it t he h tried trl to explain his difficulty In getting things j right t while at the post here bere and said aid that he had heed been suffering from sickness sf all the time he was in camp He bad hoped I Ii l to get better in barracks but did not notIs notIs I his Is there any hatred or feeling in ex cx t Tt teio e between first class men and the i j i iM it J fourth class men inen asked General Bates Batu j hI I L dont believe there is ill any feeling j a the fourth class men but there i irv rv v he je on the Dart of the fourth clas cs men against the upper class clas men maa replied Cadet Peace This may be accounted for by the I It t t ent of the lower tower class men but f this feeling passes away when the cadets auleta II are re advanced to the third class cIas Peace went on to say that he did not t Consider exercising brutal Then Than you dont think that being bet re vu to exert yourself physically phy i 1 against your will almost to the tile point of l o brutal T exclaimed General I J i I i hI I was wan exercised myself sir and I did cUd i r t think it was brutal It was kb wI i but bat 1 I never e knew it t to result in permanent injury t I Th rh witness said there were seine sone men who used to haze base more than others and that hit th t some sora of them seemed to be without the faculty of judging when a man had bad enough e t i 1 I should ld say that If a cadet were hued hazed I to o such a degree hat Phat be he would be injured t tor or had to be helped hel l e by his hi fellows the hazin would be brutal said saki Cadet Peace I 1 M This answer was given ven after General J Bates bad had intimated to the th that in n case ca a cadet died ed from the effects of or sudi ucb hazing basing the die law Jaw would hold aH JI of those hose e who took part in hi it responsible for tor forlie forthe the lie mans death i Cadet Alien Allen C aye Kave of Minnesota who I came ante next said he had seen Cadet Breth 1 the before ore be he left the academy i Breth Bruth seemed very mud murti east cast ca t down at ci t found deficient d lent He did not Dot complain I of at illness nor did he be Hay eay y anything of hi his bis treatment by bv tIe rte tt cadets while White here heft hereIn hereIn In reply to General Brooke the witness said he bad had never hazed ha cl a man o the limit of bis his endurance he be never n B saw a aman amail man mail faint or become exhausted from bas ban basIn juL In and had bad not t n heard beard of such a case caR l a Benefit Bendt Do YOU yon think It is for the benefit of a cadet ead t to have him u envied times T inquired General GemI Clous Yes Yea sir ell I did ft It myself and an l think It benefited me was wan the ready y reply wg Cadet John A t Pearson of Tennessee when asked if r he ever hazed Cadet C Boos BOOK answered in the tM negative in describing d DIr several ral forms form of exercising he said is b the most moot exhausting The man is required to get pt down d wn and a ad use UM his tiis hands and legs ait as a rapidly as an e Jn in propelling o himself I over t the t groina The next witness i was wis R C TH f J 7 Ctrl vu I engineer of Buffalo N T Y a brother bt h of the late Cadet Oscar L I Booz Rioz Th wit witness S i ness had not seen hi his luring during iuri th the i time he was In the th West Point in ISiS Mr Booz BOOK continued 1 I received a letter let ter from him I after r he went to the academy In It t he ho h said he felt stran stra strange n e at the as al a it I Was bis his first experience nce away avay an ay from f roni nome Horn HornIn j In the second letter which I sot gut g it Wout the beginning of 0 August he told me ho he h would be called out to fight in a ut a j week He complained of having haYing had tad to take tabasco tobasco sauce uce and suffered from fresi a I sore SOfe throat in consequence He claimed t g gIt t tit it was forced own down his throat and he had to swallow it tt or choke Have you got sot those letters asked r General Clous CIous ClousI I have not sir sir I d destroyed troed alt all the I letters I Ot from him while here re TP f i DUed the witness UIn In other letters which w I got fron him tim t the witness added he complained of be betag I tag hazed and said aid be he wag w being treated more severely evert lyth than ln others Later In the r year he be wrote to me suggesting that my mj I father allow him to send In his re r don tion Oscar Q wa a not nt ii I fresh and wan waa not the kind of ot a c h r v rat mat t would be h halted based ed Did he e er f r mn t i n any an names of or t the themen themen men Who tho hazed bared him General IOU asked oo Xo No he hf did not Continuing the witness said aul h he or oh M I Ito to Oscars leaving the a adem saw him after he h EO left but did m not ot t peak to i him of hi his treatment L t Vindication of Brother Mr Mt Booz Boos then s said ia ut o u vindi vindicate vindicate i cate hl his brothers brother s 5 character in the face oi ol thed reports repona of what had bal be n said h Lieutenant Coe as t to t hi his f dullness dulinea s and in HP H said sad ORar r rhad 1 had nib his preliminary studies ia in 1 a ii s S C C Ce e i h a wanner as he was dull Statement had been made a aliis liis brothers and cow li Ho wa neither said the witness In reply to Sup Mills the ui ess said he nu I M brothers and one tt r He did itu know 01 tr from am r disease than of le died said that Js told hur that HH f had been forced down his throat Did vou see our brother she shei i after the academy 1 ww him in October and it then Complained f a sore throat t was being treated b a physician to lol P N hv did not x cm or some member of ji notify the war department t le military a adem when it b 11 that our brother was dv Sift L from alleged t asked Colonel lie we did not feel like doing Mr Booz V all o ou u h tt the thought of Ocar s death u th examination of Booz Boozi i court t U d recess A Cadets Testimony i td t Henry A of was k d di i nl Mm er haze Cadet Booz mn hae him but i cant the witness l id jou bract fourth class men for the theor or the edification ot la inquired Gen ral Clous No Mr I it tor their own Rood 1 he witness When I was a i s man the I Ia a lah man torn into th t l tent 1 went there and found Oad i on the floor and nt one els teni H v working his arms j nl ii roul I him h r was the He replied i xi Then he began working i H perfectly rational a adi di tred m question I felt then u wis and came idi If ivine here tent was i k the on that which me n int ins street iu c i witness h used tr ba o in 1837 was h hi i or it and quit i h witness u Know lodged a great of tacit s tobacco during t r f two in West Point Meers said that summary dismissal vi is the punishment for fourth c i 1 men ul Meyers said that the present lv rth had not been exercised at alt b upper clax mtr P O or Cleveland that an anA A g 11 he came here and remained about ti n which time he lived at He came for the purpose o i his son who was then and is isn n v A cadet at the academy He read a statement in the papers of the tl at Mr Booz of Bristol Pa had said lii i ame here at that time for the purpose o protecting bot from i wa at the Highland Falls ho hou u i both were staying Mrs Boos W ts also there I never heard a word from young Boos wl I met aa to his treatment at the eaid witness and if his par parents wire displeased with the treatment ut their son at the military post they did nut say anything ir my hearing to such elert hen asked what was his impression of oung BOOK the witness replied Ho seemed to me to be a nice young ir but if I ma bay SK I think there not much material in him out of which to make a good army officer unes made a lengthy statement l ie general conduct of the course of in the academy and approve of K speaking of it in the highest erms B Colonel Milte When you were here tl l it appear to ou that the authorities w f re making efforts to protect new cadets Yes sir For instance were In the company street of the camp They wre put there for the purpose of pro the new cadets 1 understand he had finished his testimony Mr Pi said that lie is not and never H 1 a member ot congress as has been r ported An Authority on Pugilism vit A L of New York said f earth class men were privileged to crit upper class men at the mess hall ta tab c b and could say things in the mes ball if said at an other place about ai v class man might result in the h tors smashing the others bead before his said General f mean he would call him out and andt t him replied the witness net L s en d to be an au aut t ii on pugilism and explained bow bown n iche were made J nd i en he was a fourth class man be was et u l to but a man against hm about his height and weight he not care Ht ou know of an unfair ha hai i taken place thought bout between Mr MrIK IK r ot my and Mr Mumma was wasi i The latter was too tall and while r not win d not ike him top the was stopped he ninth round did not think as bad as astl tl all There were many men knocked 0 u the football Held and very few in 1 HS E K Sterling f Michigan said L i after the tight with Keller BOOK leit much a one night s and Cadet since i i deli were t ld Cadet Breth in a tent near 1 y They went t re and broucht nim to his own tent 1 was in a n condition aed every T i le in his s emed to be twitch i He was rubbed with alcohol or orIN IN ui hazel and he went to p The v H sn not know whether Breth went t the Hospital in consequence but he not KO that night He n v r heard of r jacket being used in i l ne considered that the ex r of fourth class men was fene I to them Bracing Not Hazing Frank P I hm of Ohio testified tt be a classmate of Former Cadet Mh The latter based in camp one ht and th witness saw him with men r bis handa Breth was trembling i owr H heard o ot t in t tHal be sa d be had been HI HIrow row be cam to the academy The had been based himself 1 not say that he was H aid basing or bracing erect carriage cadets an o F det A 5 said went t see Boos after lite 1 told bm J eard of i v having laid down t to go got t have er try and advised him to Hr the if our i ij o told him it had never been known I i a cadet to May down IMd b take your I think he did l newer heard of r m to se Mr W tt 1 of X th Id Ji ma that on o e c sta b fourth clam man do th about or W ti at one was his Do you sweating t e I brought It I bad v wear a t n coat and en a I freely This was in intent tent In time and about yoa rather do M the twe ting al l take te lift ea l w until tomorrow |