The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-22
THE RENO INQUIRY.

THE RENO INQUIRY.
ORDERED RENo's COMMAND OUT OF COLUMN?
AN INDIAN TRICK OF coNcEALMENT-THE
INDIANS MEET RENos DETACHMENT
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
CHICAGO. ILL.,, Jan. q, 1879.
Although the Reno Investigation has been in
progress week il does not to have lost inter-
est. The crowded as usual to-day. The
first thing in order the correction Of
Girards testimony Of yesterday This wit
ness to-day denied that he was mar.
ricd to an Indian woman. Mr.. Gilbert
suined his cross-examnation Of Girard by asking
some questions that had already been answered.
The Court said that Girard's testimony these
points seemed very clear and Mr. Gilbert should not
attempt to confuse the witness by going into them
again. Taking another lead Mr.. Gilbert, in his most
afablc yet ironical manner, asked. Have you any
Indian children, Mr.. Girard?' II object to such
questions, may please the Court, Lieutenant Lee
hastened to say, because they are calculated
to degrade the witness in public estimation. They
are irrelevant to the matter hand and the witness
need answer them not. as he picases. Mr. Gilbert
arose and said; with the utmost Difference to Your
Honors may as well state the Court the purpose
had in asking the question The witness had stated
that he has had thirty-one years intercourse with
the Indians. l merely wished to see to what
extent his intimacy extended" Tie objection
was sustained, and at tie end OF the cross.
examination Recorder Lee began the redirect examine
ton and touched on the point Of
WHO ORDERED OUT THAT COMMAND?
The witness stated that he riding with General
Custer at the time. ana continued When General
custer SD" Tue coniuan' ino'c ou' nc p"' spurs "
his horse, and, seeming to be speaking to
h;rsa,f said ..who Tho mischief ordered
at that ro,nnonds" and then subsequently,
as,ed l,;r, u,irar,u the same question fo
r;h NC acout ranl;ed that he aid not know hus
-, a~I,r nal To-, ,,;,a,, ,,d +hot ,yos al, la
80, .I,,t a. ,,-,nhor 30 c,Lar nuostions 81 MI
nr ;,ror,anco and MAINLY rcnt;no 20 1rnrds nor
sona rrlations toward RENO were asked butmost OF
them were ruled out by the Court This concluded
Tsr roMMANIrn or THE scours rrsrrF1Es
Lieutenant q. A. yarnum. ouartcrmaster Of tho
co,,antt cov.Iry now stafionat M Fort lbrAhn1n
Ijncan vas nlscod on the stand He testifel that
on the 18th and a6th Of June 1876. he was second
G~erai rustar Astcr answerira preliminary a,,es
tons as 10 the command of Custer and its relations
tn,r. I'd tho Trdians hc testified that on the Doth he
Was detsched from the main body of troons bein1
away WITH the scout He was not with the troops
when the Custer command was divided. he did not
mrrc,v tnew thnt when he saw Reno's command il
consisted of threa companies of about forty mon
each He did not hear the command given to
Reno regarding his advance against the In
d;ans IL. wn. ridino so that ha ,lrop,,eJ
An with tho commend as IL crossed the
river He Joined the head OF the commsnd when il
WIS forming after crossing the river Witness was
asked TO describe the mo yemcnts of the Indians from
that time on In reply he said that he did not know
whether Indians could I've seen from where Reno's
men were hut he had seen a large number of them
down In the bottom having been up ON the hills
where he could sce The troops formed in columns
OF tours for their advance into the timber Renos
command pulled out from Clusters command ut .
trot while Custer went at a walk The distance be-
tween the two commands when Reno reached the
ford ,,epended on the course Custer took. Witness
then described the topography of the Indian VIII
lauel In answer to q question put TO him in re-
gard to Renos conduct Lieutenant varnum said
maud s.about soyeuty-ny or hundred yards ahead"
INpaAN TACTICS.
They saw the Indians traversng the plain ahead,
down ..tbe bottom - .kickipp up a great dust ani
ann.rentiv running away They were riding back
aud forth and crcling round evidently to create
many of them there we're Al Iouath they appeared
20 l,r tnrnino h,ck and finally tine Witness and Lieu
| tenant Hair who was with him. turned back to
ion the command, leaving the scouts they knew
not where: When they reached the line tho
| was ro,nc 70 CHARGE the Indian village tho witness
rode down into the timber 10 Join the charging COM
MANY There he saw Major Reno who wa dcDioyinp
The men. The colonel liseno) asked him If inc had
mat come from the line and told him TO go back and
renort TO him what was noup ON there. on the way
h.sr he met Tieutenanf Uodge who told him what
,vas ,,,a nm there Hero no hea-d that the Tn,lians
wcrs circ,,g around 10 Tie let so that lie horses
were In DANCER lilo nndersook 10 bring the borses
"nt - o
o"' rr,v cu.pa,
.,rc ovor ~, an, ri M ~ tho lin. heard c,ntain
| Mov,.ndT ssv that his men were ont OF a,nmnritor
r,s 80. ...;as,-> 80. ~. a., - h.ar 80 ,l,..
uss o'.s. 90 nc .'.o.. ~ ~ ~ 49, -
tr .se' ~ .he iin 49,, S ,.r 80 .ha r,,St Of
.%a ,,,.a 81 iaard snn,ae .o,,,sod sau,ds ai,out
sno a.ae Ae ~! i,'.u s' e'iIs ,s So. re nat
Ter ss,ou saw the men ali mounted and
mr. flp N In ~ as m