The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-09

I remained four or Eve days. had no arms ex-
cept stones and sticks picked ND on the street
wa sober, and 30 were ali the Baltimore SAL,
ors saw ashore. Inevef expressed my approval
OF the acts OF the police during the riot.
John Hamilton, carpenters mate on the Baiti-
more, 6S years of age. man Of very good ap-
pearance, testified:
went ashore October Is at O'clock Invent
nrst 70 the exchange to get some Chilean money.
The clerk there warned us that mob was
organizing to attack us after dark that night.
Several times after that We received similar
warning from other people OF respectable
o-ganizsd plos to ss assault Us. Several Of Us
played cards for long time in the plaza. When
we came out it was about dusk. Baltimore
SAILOR came up and too Us h.ggln nad been
him. Before leaving picked up piece OF lead
bar to use as weapon If necessary to defend
myself. Soon met the mob A man attacked
the lead. Stones few all around me.
several striking me-, and finally ons
struck me in the back OF the head and fell
sciousness the next day found that had been
stabbed in the right thigh while was senseless.
/ was never asked by the Valparaiso court
whether approved the ."tion OF the police
during the riot and certainly never said that
did so approve.
Charles abbey, coxswain, another of the
liberty party, testified that he saw no assault
made, but saw Riggin only shortly before and
the latter told him he was not drinking at ell,
as he feared trouble
Jerry Anderson, a negro coal HEAVIER on the
Baltimore. also on liberty Octobes Is, testified:
After driving around in a cab with other
sailors for awhile they went to the True Blue
saloon The proprietor advised them not 20
drink, as he feared trouble. They left and
went up the street. snort while after, the
mob began 10 stone them, and chased them a
long distance. AT last they became tired out,
and stopped TO face their pursuers. The latter
RvFa M end H. r3n4r N
was Anderson's companion, gave them some
money. Anderson refused, and then the
Chileans tried to search him. He knocked one
back and another stabbed him twice IN the
back. Then another knocked him down with a
blow from stone in the back OF the head, stun
ming him. The crowd apparently left him and
went down to the ship, where ne arrived with
out further harm. he was sober, and saw no
drunken Baltimore sailors.
1. A. Wallace, another negro coal HEAVIER, tes-
tilted:
He was with the last witness when crowd of
Chilean sailors assaulted them. They ran. fol-
lowed by the crowd, who stoned them. They
ran till exhausted, and then stopped. The Chill
cans demanded money. Wallace gave up about
beat them and knocked him down. Chilean
officer came up and rescued him and escorted
him to the ship. 1t was now about 6 o'clock.
The assault began in a different location from
that of the attack on Riggin. Witness had
never expressed approval OF the actions OF the
police.
Charles Downey testified tina. after getting
down to the mole at night party of Chilean
sailors charged him and other Baltimore men
with bayonets. He was not hurt, but was taken
to Jail, as was supposed, for protection.
John Butler testified to having been told i'm
mediately on landing that gangs of Chilean
sailors were lying in wait to "do up" any mem
bers of the Baltimore's crew who might be
found on the street alone. He also spoke of see
ing Hamilton lying on his face with a Chilean
standing over him with a knife. This witness
understood Spanish, and testified that the
epithets used by the mob in reviling American
sailors were of the foulest character. The
crowd threw knives as the Baltimore men ran
away.
Thomas H. Williams, colored, testified that
the Chilesns stood him up, robbed him of s. in
paper money, and beat him. Afterwards the
mob called out: "Kill the Yankees"
The work of the commission is now proceed
ing rapidly, and will probably be finished in a
week. The repairs on the Baltimore viii be very
slight
1t has just become known to the officers of the
Baltimore that John Fl. Davidson, of the crew,
was tried by the criminal court at Valparaiso on
charge even yet unknown, convicted and SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment, without
either himself or the captain being informed be
was under trial. and in the face of a written
statement to sehley by the Valparaiso author
tiles that no charges were pending against the
Baltinore's crew.
LONDON, Jan. s.-A correspondent of the Times
a. valparaiso states that the Chilean govern
ment is extremely reticent regarding the nego-
tiations which have been carried on with the
Washington City government in connection
with the Baltimore affair, but he adds that the
public approves the course which the Chilean
authorities are reported to have taken.