Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1912 — BETRAYED BY PUMP [ARTICLE]

BETRAYED BY PUMP

Two West Point Cadets Found Guilty by Contrivance. Btudents Accused by Commander of Having Partaken o£ Forbidden Refreshments, Make Denial and Are Sent to Hospital. West Point, N. Y.—Because they were found .guilty of following other alleged transgressions by a violation of one of the most stringent rules of the army, Charles Carroll Fltznugn, appointed from North Dakota, and Frederic Hurd Van Horn, from Connecticut, were dismissed from the Military Academy recently by General Thomas Barry, commandant of the post. An Innocent but efficient stomach pnmp used in the post hospital accomplished the downfall -of the cadets. Both cadets were members of the fourth class and obtained permission to leave their quarters on April 27 to witness a baseball game on the post athletic field. They discarded their cadet uniforms, and, dressed In natty civilian attire, escaped the watchful eyes of their superiors after the game and slipped away from the reservation. The late afternoon and part of the evening of that day Fltzhugh and Van Horn were alleged to have spent In the village of Highland Faliß. They were detected by one of the officers when they attempted,: under cover of darkness, to slip unobserved back to their quarters. One of the charges subsequently lodged against the cadets was that when absent from the post they had partiaken of Intoxicants. Both denied the charge. To tell an untruth is considered tn the army an unforgivable offense. General Barry learned of the cadets'

denial. He ordered both to the hospital. A report reached the office of the commandant soon after a vigorous application of the pump, that established to the satisfaction of General Barry that both bad partaken of tbe forbidden refreshments. The order of dismissal followed.