Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-10-27 | Page 5 | Captain Kneass Scores Hurlea

CAPTAIN KNEASS SCORES says he has no use for man who cannot keep his oath the statements made to the newspaper men toy joseph hurley the member of company B of the national guard who was tried by court martial and fined 10 a geelt ago regarding his treatment by captain kneass and the men with whom he worked has aroused a storm ot probest from those whom he charged with treating him unfairly monday while hurley was being held at the county jail pending tha payment of the fine that had been assessed he told a pathetic tale of the indignities that he had been forced to endure because of his membership in the national guard and to a certain degree excited the sympathy of his auditors he said that because of the treatment he had received at the hands of his fellow workmen he had applied to captain kneass for a leave of absence several times and his application had been ignored it was this latter statement to which captain kneass took exception and yesterday he told a representative of this paper that while it was truo that he had received one letter from hurley it bad como but a few days before th e company left tor camp this year anat too late to act upon and that furthermore the statement that hurley had made in the letter to the effect that he bad asked for a laon to attend camp had been refused was untrue captain kneass said there has a the guard wished to be excused from drill for a good reason that I 1 have not excused him but hurley was warned time and again that he was violating the law and a nd his oath and it a fellow cant the oath he takes when he joins the guard he Is not good for much the captain sas that this is not the last of the court martiale marti als and that next week a general court martial will sit here to try william porter and joseph hurley on the charge of absenting themselves from camp without leave he gays chaj the old belief that the national guard was a joke Is antiquated and that in the future the members must live up to the rules of the guard or suffer the consequences