Show HE TESTED HOT SAUCE i Surgeon Bannister Experiments t Experi-ments With abaseD I r I I II I TAKES A FOURDROP DOSE i I Ij Ib I b l j He Then Swears Positively Before Y I i 1 CourtMartial That the Taking of the Mixture Could Not Directly or Indirectly Have Caused the Tuber I culosis or the Death of Cadet Booz I Cadets Tell the Couit Why Hazing lIng l-ing Is Practiced at West Point Meii Forced to Resign I Ij j r fj West Point New York Dec 22The court of Inquiry Investigating the allegation al-legation that the late Oscar L Booz was so Jlltieated while a cadet at the Military academy that his health was Impaired began work early Mal John 11 Bannister surgeon nixed States army told of his testing i i the effects of partaking of four d 1913 of tropical pepper saucesuch as Is i used In the cadets mess hall lie said I i ire tried it last night by dropping four i drops of the sauce on the palm of his I hand and taking It up wIth his tongue Ho swallowed the sauce although It tasted hot like the taste of a cayenne pepper pod Ills throat he said was cry susceptible to any r irritation but 110 felt no ill effects from the dose I Two young ladies who were present L uhcn he made the test In a spirit of fun did likewise and they too found no difficulty in swallowing the same quantity In reply to Gen Clous the witness said 1 positively swear that the taking ta-king of this sauce could not dlrectlyor indirectly have caused the tuberculosis or the death or In any way be the cause of death of Cadet Boos two years I after his pai taking of It fADFT POOLE TESTIFIES Cadet John H Poole of Michigan I swore that he never hazed Boos lie had not seen Broth hazed but had j heard he was exercised considerably What are the relations of the upperclassmen 1 upper-classmen to the fourth classmen I With the exception of exercising whlrh has been abolished it Is about the same as formerly We require I thorn to do special work about our tools loaning guns making up beds 1 and PO forth The witness said that he I hnd heard of four fights between upper up-per and fourth classmen since last cu cam = nient t Who won asked Gen Clous Two urro won by upper classmen one by a fourth classman and the other was a draw BOOZ WAS HAZED riM Guy Carleton of Michigan testified tes-tified that Boo was hazed but that 1 there was nothing brutal or severe in It Others had similar experiences In reply to several questions regarding regard-ing adet Breth the witness said I know him but did not rear of his be I ink hazed or being put in a stulght Jacket If he had been placed in a straightJacket I certainly would have heard of it I had a special duty man from the fourth classHe swept out the tent carried water and cleaned j my gun and bayonet MEN ATE SOAP I I Cadet Emery J Pike of Iowa had heard of men being required to eat soap never knew of a positive case I You know Cadet Broth 1 asked Gen Clou j 1 c sir I remember him because ot I his woodenness I Do you mean by that that he was utnodenRoadie 1J XT Cs n 1 1 In treating d fourth classmen 9 C by your methods of hazing was any difference I mad between the sons of rich men and j those of poorer classes Well sir there would be no distinction distinc-tion tf opt the rich mans son was conceited con-ceited answered the witness a WHY MEN WERE HAZED + Why do you have to haze fourth classmcn 1 asked Gen Brooke 1 Fourth classmen are new and green and they are hazed to make them conform 11 con-form to the rules to obey their super supe-r rhrR and make men out of them t1 If the con of a General or the son ota l ot-a President l of the United States came jr here Mould hc > be hazed asked the J General 1 Yfs air he would If I he were con flird and It Is likely he would be p llaztod anyhow You then evidently wish to make ie them fool that they arc on an equal iS I footing that none Is better than the Ii etherr said Gen Brooke Thats the U Idea sir CONCEIT TAKEN OUT rn In reply to Gen Brooke Cadet Cox of Viieinla said that when a cadet in 1ir fourth class was conceited It was i > tki > n out of him by hazing Or How long does the conceit last 1 tr nskf > d the General About twenty mln m > t replied the witness Pi Ah then it Is exercised said the r1 General jokingly Yes sir fl > r > oh it over return Not while ho IM I i1 fourth class man sir CADET CODE OP HONOR Un Brooke questioned the witness Cli af length I on the cadet code of honor Gl t add the witness said Our code requires a nun not to do anything ungentle r1g0 manly Sometimes a class has caused IE a man to resign for making false statement IESi state-ment or doing something In violation viola-tion of this coder code-r An deviation from this standard ng1 r i then would be closely Investigated by a the class and there Is no intermediary lam between absolute truth and falsehood e ° Inquired Gen Brooke That is exactly the Idea sir I knew of a ease about two I years ago where a man did an ungentlenmnly act and he lU Was loquiMtod to resign said the witness wit-ness elf eLo nessDid h r naked Gen Brooke He 10 did sir HAD TAKEN PEPPER SAUCE Cl + Cadot Leonard A Pruntev of Kansas c5 t had himself taken pepper sauce The i quantity was half sv teaspoonful lie suffered no injury from it the effect Passing away in len minutes P valet William M Coley said lie could ICrtG 0 not say that he had not given sau cc to np lower clansmen and If so O1d1 llao you seen It given I tt 1 was any force used d kpitf I saw It given several times In the B1 nicvs hall but no force was used The blf nion were told to take It and they did G1Jjt lllslil drops was the most I ever saw C gpit given n J J TRAGGKD FROM HIS TENT b1 cadets bo Have you known of any ca lag I dragged from their tents asked No r Coq Clous r You sir I was dragged myself when 4i1 i fourth fliiisman f I was lYing on the Sb comforter on the floor Two or three 1 men caught hold of it and pulled It With me on top out of the tent I Have you ever known hands to have I his jody I ben laid on a man and 1 r dragged out of the grounds I Nom Cllf No air the bedding was always o underneath Sfj1 The court adjourned until Wednesday 1 Wednes-day December 2Cth at 2 oclock ua f |