Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — The Case of Cadet Whittaker. [ARTICLE]

The Case of Cadet Whittaker.

Washington, March 22. At a Cabinet meeting yesterday tbe case of Cadet Wiiittaker was disposed of by disapproving tho sentence of dismissal from the service imposed by the court, on the ground that technical evidence taken at the trial was improperly introduced. The record of the court-martial of Cadet Whittaker will be made publio to-morrow through special orders of the Secretary of War. These orders will eet aside the verdict and sentence of the court-martial, on account of certain irregularities and informalities in taking evidence, and will release Whittaker from arrest. At the same time they will dismiss him from the Military Academy under tbe provision of section 1,325 of the Revised Statutes relating to the discharge of cadets if found deficient in studies. The action of the President in the case is based upon an opinion by Attorney General Brewster, to whom the Secretary of War referred-the report of the Judge Advocate General that improper evidence had been admitted in tho W litfoker trial. Mb. Samuel Dedron, of Loveland, Ohio, writes :“ I think 1 have cause to be glad. Afflicted for years with painful kidney troubles and chromic dyspepsia, 1 was induced to give Dr. Guysott’s Yoilow Dock and Sarsaparilla a trial. The very first dose seemed to reach the right spot I don’t know what a back-ache or sour stomach now is.” The novelist who wrote, “She took his haud ; it was cold and clammy like that of a serpent,” subsequently said : “He is the right arm of the minister, and that important personage has no eyes of his own, but looks only through has right arm.”