| Show TELlS HIS IS ClIed on Branch Who Told TId Him He Flo Was a D n fool RELATES DETAILS OF FIGHT J v In a ri Ii Hn U I i 1 Ii ci i mill it ml In III I H lilt Hit Him him n a U I I Annapolis Aid iii Id Nov Nil uy JO O Midshipman man mun took 1001 the stand In his Jih own behalf Ills 1119 IIi atory story nf 01 o the trouble tr uble between himself Mid Midshipman Ild shipman Brunch wirer differ 1 dally iron from the tha th testimony ot uC previous He Ire told tia of ot c having had hati it n light with Humphreys In 1904 1004 In lii which the latter knocked out oUI witness ot of the night when then the feud to tn 0 a n head said saidI I went vent In room roo III and Il lI ila light turned on 1 I maid uld that I 1 come como to ti ecu feo him about what oc occurred hlll dd You are nN nr n a fool toI f ol to COHO to sea OJ me m you Oll know J now nov that ray m class CIt 11 hotes YOU ou I wild That Is not KO o you Oll url are ar the only fine ane who dOM does le then Ih a n aked ked What Viat If It I AnT II 1 J Then you are ure a 11 damn sneaking c I will fight you Oll though I 1 nm uto not In III lighting con COil condition I t If Lf you got get ot un 1111 1 I will lick you yut H 11 mild You soU ou will 11 try Ih I what I 1 will viii I 1 mild If It you ou get up ui I 1 will you U did not get up tip 01 utter n ti little fur Cur further ther conversation lon I 1 left lert the polo I called calell what I 1 did because o oJ I J wa wall aN told that ti II fight would ond feelings and had told me he hC was vu going to bURe me mI that hat 1 It Is make me Oil fall and 11 1 I to tl nOd end the matter I 1 did II I not nol Intend to light when hon I went vont to the tile room but Iut lie ho again told me that thit he lie Intended to me Ill counsel then thon him bis tIt from Crom hitting Dranch during tho thu light although h al il allowed lowed 1 to do to co o f under tinder thia rules The Tho witness told of or two of ot nib explaining th t t lie ho did not 2111 believe hell a any uny blows should bo be struck In II a n unless own mUll tire lire on Oil feet Ceet lie nho toM toll hov hOl he fouled and alai offered to tu toIve give Ive up ill tho thin light hut but tin thu seconds would not allow nil 0 I It After Ater the quarrel with paid lIhI he be clone came to my III room mom and told to II me nie that ho h hail had been appointed second to arrange it II light I 1 wanted wont Jaeger Jl er tm till mine The Tho details wore were then arranged During Durin tho the light lI ht we WI first fell tell under tho the blinds bout About the tho twelfth round 1 I rushed rushell Branch and both holh lull fell through the door Thu next round hit lilt n rt let rifle uppercut It U stunned me for some rounds I re returned r returned turned to 10 his jaw jiw He Ilu threw hi his bond hack back oad I returned but hut my linn arm around bin neck Vo 0 t tell fell In that position his hlA hend head striking tho tilt AVo Vo 0 were lifted up My arm could not nol bo be used for tor the tho next net two rounds My 01 Iy left leCt arm crushed In hit a u football Romo about three years ago Il O I r had hiatt n operation but failed ailed physically However I passed tho the next year yea The Tue mm arm Is still than thull tho other then showed a 11 de p scar ear earon on Oil the tho t of ot the thO left arm lIIm HP lit said tIl u a sliver had bonn been put In there thereAt thereAt At the Hie end of ot the round ho continued came across the tho room remit and wo we e both hoth apolo apologized and he said laid Afterward we wo will willbo willbe bo be 1 0 friends Ho lie 11 then left and anit I IlIne never seen scell him since Vo We 0 parted arted us nil friends I could riot not go 10 to breakfast tho the next morning I hall bad to go JO to the III hospital All An orderly en conic me and said that there Willi as a n man unconscious In inthe tho the hull ball lie He was a as brought to tho hos hios hospital pital that night mill and Dr Ir Ames anes told mo lao that was doing well ohi About 3 the tile next afternoon I was told by hy a n nurse that WAS vas IS den lend 11 I requested an on Investigation n tion by tho the I 1 ras grieved beyond lon I think that Mr Mt lr was Indeed fortunate t to In being III In his place ilace III In going to Bleep not lIot waking up tip than to be le In Iii mine and having to Ii live 10 this life lIfter after this q sad Mil Ott affair In Ill answer to 10 u a question fald It If I had bad not lint resented Sir Mr Ir continued actions I would bo ho 0 In the tune Hinio position na as another classmate with whom no nil ono one hud 1101 anything to do o Under these I would have hae to te resign and atul could neer hold holdup holdup up Ul my lily In head bead again Tho The prosecution pro then hogan began V t s The Tito defendant was to de tie describe scribe running us liB hall had con can conducted conducted ducted It him PreMed for Cur ill dl direct root answers an nil to what Branch had done donI mild I dont oare earo to relate them then whispered to the Judge advocate and ami the tho was withdrawn It was evident that Men Mori Meriwether wether he to mention certain things thing before the tho women of ot whom there were ere a II number In the llio courtroom then declared that he had bud not nol been Ilten ratty nitty but had unfairly ac tiC the tho reputation At t the tho end ot ur testimony tho announced that It II had closed Io ell UH ctt Capt P 1 com corn of ot the lint witness for tor thu thit th rebuttal He lie told laid of ur a n 0 with Ml Churchill Humphrey ph res president of or the tho class In which be hI had hall told loiti Humphreys that ho under oath lath to obey nil all regulations regulation rc He Ue n as commandant took the tho stand that light lightIng lag Ing at nl the thu academy Willi lI nhut Road good order and Mill discipline dl and ond would not be ho tolerated This he be said I think is I also the view of or Supt K |
