Show THE WITNESSES FRANK Evidence Given as to Hazing i at West Point i NUMBER OF FIGHTS CITED Cadet Bcttisca of Kentucky Who OfH piatccl at SovcraII > 3SCTib s Them a Baro Knuclde Contests and Air Were Usually to a Iinish Contents Were of Brutal Mature Which Irfvws of Forty of the States Prohibit Pro-hibit Cadet From Colorado Given Some Gocd Advice by Col Clayton West Point N T Jan 10 Before iho members of the pgrcnslonul investigating t in-vestigating committee resumed their Inquiries today Into thx charges of j liajlng at the Military academy they visited the camp ground and Fort Clinton where many fights between cadets have occurred Cal Clayton vho Is a graduate of the academy explained ex-plained the arrangement of the tejits in the summer encampments to his brother commlttccmcn and when thY visited the rjnlc in the rear of the camp the stretching process tiy which soy eral cadets were hazed was discussed Cadet William R Bcttlson of Kentucky Ken-tucky was the first witness lie testl flcd that Cadet Breth was his classmate class-mate and that Cadet Boos was a fourth classman while he the witness was a third classmun He never knew of 33reth being hazed Witness said ho knew of five fights between cadets during dur-ing his flMt year and was present at two of them SIXTEEN FIGHTS JITJSU Witness said there were nine fights during the year i919O and seven durIn the present year Bcttison re called iho names of the Vtlelpanw In nearly all of these fights He wild none of these fights had been investigated by the authorities and consequently no one had been punished He had never SSona principal in a fight but had SnohUedat several and was the chairman chair-man of the scrapping committee which decided when a light was to be arranged BARE KNUCKLE CONTESTS Bctilsbn described the flifhts as bare knuckle contests under Marquis of Ouccnsborry rues except that the rounds were two minutes each He nAld the princlpnls stripped lo the walsi and llgimth were usually lo a finish fin-ish n Then you hcreliold fights of a brutal l J nature which the laws of forty out of I the fortyfive BtAlcs In the Union have prohibited snld MjvDrlggs Bftltl I soil blade no eply a t MILITARY DISOBEDIENCE Mr Drlggs then inquired if hazing c or assisting at basing was violating the oath administered onhis entrance Ii to the academy After some evasion I the witness sold that violation of the academy regulations was not considered consid-ered by the cadets as a violation of the articles of war and were not looked upon as mllUarydfHobedlcncc CALLING BOOZ OUT Bottlsou told the story of his corrected cor-rected Booz for Improperly patrolling his post nnd aicknouiedped to Gen Dick thai this was one of the causes of J5ooz being called oat He explained thai Booz had made nn untruthful nnsuer lo a complain made against him by Cadet CaplcS Booz he paid also made an Improper reply lo an upperclassman whoa spoken lo and Inconsequence In-consequence of all three causes he was called out FIVE HOURS ON STAND Cttdut Bcttison Was upon the stand for over five hours and prior to his bflng excused Chairman Dick naked him if ho had anything further td say He replied I want to say sir that time difference between the hazing of a man hcrcand at colleges Is that In cot Irges freshmen are hazed by sophomores sopho-mores In a spirit of mischief and hands are laid on them brutally Here we never lay hands on them except in case of Ji fight Our hazing is solely for the purpose of making a fourth class man realize the necessity of prompt and unquestioned obedience SIX FIGHTS IN 1SO The committee resumed the Investi gation at 73 p m and Cadet William P Ennls of Colorado a cadetatlargc who stands fourteenth in the present first class was called Congressman VYniwrcr ot Pennsylvania examined the witness who knew little about former Cadet Booz He was not present al the BoozKcllcr fight although ho was class president of the third class dur ing the summer encampment ot IS98 Hesaid there were six lights in that year In reply to Congressman Mmltli witness said that most oC the llghtsat the post took place on Saturday or Sunday afternoons FORCING MEN OUT The witness had rather n bad quitter ot sin hour with Mr Drlggs who tioned him in regard lo the former ques Cadets Albert and HiicUseler Ennls acknowledged that he said it vould bo a good timing lo give these men asulff dent number of demerits to force them out of the academy Both of them are now out of the academy Huctzclor account of demerits and Albert on for de ficiency In sludlc REPORTED ALL INFRACTIONS Ennls made no met et of the fact that he felt thai the men should be got rid of and d reiterated this sentiment dis tinctly from the stand in reply to Con gressmen Drlggs Wangernnd Clayton He was In a position as corporal in the company to report Infractions the part of Albert on and did so on every occasion but E justly neverunfairly or un Wilnesa Iri1 reply to Congress man Smith again made similar state meats much to the surprise of who heard him those CLAYTON ADVICE TO J3NNIS Gen bad Dick asked Col ClaytOn if he any more questions to askth 1wss and the Colonel said the wit I i have nothing more to ask but would advise this his Ideas If he intends young man to rbvisc army to BO into the SWIMMING TO NEWBUHG In Chairman hand and Dick then took the wItnen requested him to describe all he forms of eral called exercising The Gen off all the we1iin wellknown cises from exer a list and Ennls them xpIaIneI Ho added anew new one which called In swimming to NewbuVg oxerclGe constate This of a 2 man a stomach while he lying on his goes SS of a Bvinimcr through the mo wlH1Inor Theso mantuJSrs last until the haera mnmuiQuvers far enough The witness think ho has gone the coinmlttco floe In detail low cadet qualified In process by which a Prunes Samrnv nmi in as well as other In the mess hall tomnorlitIes QUESTIONED BT DRIGGS Questioned by Mr that he knew Drlccg Entii said Cadet Brefh Breth dfd not He did see him haze l hut he not toona cadet had heard that AI faint having from lie did not know of hazIng having fainted but he Cadet MaglnniH Cadet had heard of CadctMacArlhurs coivulSioiw having aftor being rigorously eiercisia exercinm Cede Frank Keller of MiOntiij then called Chairman sas wIcric3s oci to Olcic turne tli fn examination Mr Smith ask d Keller the man who fought Cadet I Jf he was Boos After the witness had replied In the alHrmatlve Mr Smith asked him to fight arid tell In his own way of the thO In any way In lie did not deviate description which he gave of the contest con-test bffore the military court of Inquiry In-quiry two weeks ago In telling of the end of the fight Keller said The fight lasted about around a-round and a half and I hit E < v < z a blow over the Htomach It wns not a blow and did not knock him hard to the ground but down Booz went r had HUfllclent wind left to any The of me wind SB knocked out Keller said that he had one other who fight with Cadet Villlams knocked him out In the ccond round The committee adjourned until 9 t oclock tomorrow morning |