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Description: They Smuggled Whisky – Two West Point Cadets Receive a Peculiar Modification of Sentence
Date: February 19 1890Newspaper published in: Washington, DC
Page/Column: Page 1
They Smuggled Whisky – Two West Point Cadets Receive a Peculiar Modification of Sentence
The President yesterday acted on the cases of Cadets Edmund L. BUTTS (of Stillwater, Minnesota), and James L. ANDREW, first class, Military Academy, recently tried by court martial and convicted of smuggling whisky into their quarters contrary to a special regulation. The were both sentenced to dismissal from the service. The President confirmed the sentence in each case, but in view of the previous excellent record of the two cadets mitigated it in each case “to walking on a tour of extra duty every Saturday until May 1 next, and to confinement to cadet limits until forty-eight hours after the graduation of his class, and should he be entitled to graduate to have the graduation postponed for the same period.”