Naval Court OF Inquiry.
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WARRINGTON, October IL, ls45.
NJ. CARRiNsroS WATKINS, passed midshipman in the
. Navy-On being called for by the Court this morn
ing, appeared and was duly sworn.


BY the JupoE Aproc T..-l was in the Florida souad
ron and went ont November l5i0; was attached 10
the Ert hst the Otsego second the Madison ne xt and
not recollect the day of the month"; saw good dsal If
porter used in the hospital Indian Key by officers NO,
on the sick Iis never saw other liquors used the
saw also, used in the hpspital mass hara
good many officers dine in the hospital not on ths
sick list have dned there frequently myself did moi
free and improper Of the hospital stores ga me-
rslly Indian Key; did see free the hospital
cannot say as to an improper use understood they
hospital stores the officers used thought doc.
tor had this allowance; don't know whether was re.
marked that these hospital stores improperly used
by the officers and surgeons.


By the CouRr.-I have recently been sick in the hos
pita at Brooklyn, New York, about ten days; the &C
commodation were very fine, indeed lived in what is
called the sick officers messDo decacies furnished
me- oil provisions had plain mutton and also beat
steak and vegetables such potatoes and tomatoes
these we're furnished by the understood tw
" cents per day was checked out of my pay to meet
upon the Key at time


ny Lieut. McLAuGHLis-I recollect that Lieut. Henry
SAID that ne intended TO stop this of hosptaI porte
furnished by the Government I do ~, ~ ""s w =. "
collect who heard II from never knev anv - liz,
officer to have any private stores do not Lnam ,sa,
no mad not private stores understood that the Govern
hospital. saw these stores used in the laaS n, =,
ls4l and the first Of lS42 think Drs HonIinsp a "a
Hastings then the surgeons in the hospital Tbsv
not both there together they relieved each otbey
The medical officers in charge Of the hospital lived in ,be
hospital mess -
J. b. MARcHASD, a lieutenant In the U. s. Navy was
next called and sworn.


By Lieut. LAUeHLIN-Tw was in the Florida souadron
and commanded the Van Buren,, from August, ls4l, Till
August, 1912. have no reason to believe whateyer
Lieut. Mclaughlin ever wasted any Of the hospts