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Omaha,
Nebraska, March
19 -- Major Albert
Hartsulf, surgeon,
was the first witness
called in the Captain
Catley court martial
yesterday.
The
day after the trouble
at Pine Ridge, Captain
Catley asked him
if in his opinion
he was able to march.
His legs,
he said, were both
bothering him.
Witness
examined him and
found varicose veins,
but his condition
was not so bad as
to prevent
him marching an
ordinary distance.
Witness
said he considered
Captain Catley in
a fit condition
to perform the ordinary
duties of his position,
and in the face
of danger would
not have advised
him not to proceed
to the front with
his company.
General
Wheaton, commandant
at Fort Omaha, believed
Captain Catley was
disqualified for
duty, and some of
the officers of
the regiment thought
the captain incompetent
to command his company
under fire.
Something
of a sensation was
produced when General
Wheaton stated that
no regret was expressed
by Captain Catley
when informed that
he should remain
behind when the
regiment marched
out to battle with
the hostiles.
This
action of Catley's
greatly mortified
the other officers
of the second.
Adjourned
until tomorrow.
The
Decatur Daily Republican
Decatur,
Illinois, Thursday
Evening, March 19,
1891
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