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Show ! ARMY RETIRING BOARD TAKES ! UP CASE OF COLONEL TUCKER CHH3AGO, Feb. The army re tirement, board, with General F. D. Grant presiding, met in tho Federal building todaj- to consider tho retirement retire-ment of Col. W. P. Tucker. Colonel Tucker has been in ill health for over I a year and asks a honorable discharge j from the service on tho usual half pa He arrived from Hot Springs, Ark., yes-j yes-j terdav and retired lo his -rooms. His wife, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, whose ' allegations placed against her husband with the secretar3' of war created a sensation sen-sation in Washington and Chicago so-! cial circles and the arnry generally, will, j it is expected, testify before tho board. Mrs. Tucker's mother, Mrs., John A. Lognn, also will bo a witness.' Colonel; Tucker's nurse, Mrs. Myrtle B. Pltt,', is still at Hot Springs, and it is said, there is no present intention of call-, ing her. Of the principals in the case. Coloifol' Tucker was the only ouo to appear to-da.y. to-da.y. It was determined that the ses-sions ses-sions of tho board shall be secret, iHid an adjournment until tomorrow Was taken. Meanwhile Colonel Tuc":tr , ., directed to undergo a physical cxamina- :d BUH ' I ,,fHh' Colonel .Tucker, walking slowly btii; Eleadily. with' a deep palor testifying j; M to his . long sickness, was surrounded p.; . H by interviewers when he appeared in ;;'. H the government building. !;, "I have ' absolutely nothing to sa !;' ssssssssl and shall not have, ""he declared in an H even v6irv "Any statement purport- $ H ing to come from me will be false.'' U ! IH Asked 'if he. knew the plans of Mts. mL H Tuckcr'ns to" his case, he renlied: "I U H know nothing. about m3- wife." . I HBH |