Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-26

r.,so making it impossible for him 70
answer AT once, and that the Legalion
ia now entirely free from espionage.
January 18th, Mr.. Egan summaries
the report of the Judge OF Crimes "niSn
Is of great length, charging that tne
distnrbance began by the attack OF three
American sailors on one Chilean ali oe.
ing drunk, which Mr.. Egan says - nos
! supported by the evidence. he tninAs
that IL may be about two months oelore
the final sentence is passed.
January 18th, Mr.. Egan announced
that he has placed in safety on the
Yorktown the remaining five refugees
and two refugees from the Spanish Le-
cation. The Italian and spanish MIL
listers accompanied him.
January 18th, Mr.. Blaine inquiries
whether the Promoter Fiscal In the
third point made by him says that the
evidence OF the officers and crew oil tue
Baltimore has been thrown out because
conflicting, as Captain Evans Oh tue
Yorktown telegraphs. Mr.. Egan re-
plies that the Fiscal throws out the tes-
timony of Johnson and Langan, show
inc that n policeman fred at close range
the rife which killed Riggan, as con-
AIctinq. and that the same otncer
Ignores the evidence of the officers ana
surgeon of the Baltimore and the CIR
cumstance of Johnson's shirt Oeins
pierced by bullet. -, ~
Mr.. Exams correspondence with the
danar,ment closes with the following
telegram: 900
"SANTIAGo, January Is, le9Z:
"Mr. Egan Acknowledges the receIPe
on the previous day OF the teiegraph.o
instructions of the 10th, and reports
that ON the morning OF this day he nau
on the subject in question an interview
with the Minister for Foreign Analrs'
whom he found well disposed ana VINO
promised to return an answer al the
earliest possible moment, but coulu no.
take any action without consultation
In a communication with Secretary
Blaine dated December IL, Senior MohIt
speaks OF the ''lamentable events al
VALPARAISO which my government had
deeply deplored." He insists tnat
events like those Of the 10th OF October
are not rare in ports visited oy sailors
Of different natioDalities, and that tnere
are no grounds whatever for attrlouung
TO that affair any motive offensive 10
the United States. He says: III the
result Of the judicial investigation shall
show the culpability Of Chilean citizens
the government of the United States,
NAV rest assured that they will be pun
ished conformably to the laws. And, II
the investigation should show RESPONSE
btlity on the part of the sailors or the
Baltimore, my government entertains
the conviction that the government OF
the United States would not wish them
to 20 UNPUBLISHED. The repression OF
crimes is social interest OF high i'm
portance, whatever the nationality or
the guilty parties or OF the victims"
Further on in his note Mr.. Montt, re-
viewing the testimony as TO the assault,
insists that the police did nothing more
than quiet the tumult, arrest those who
were most drunken and most riotous,
and dispense the crowd. The loca! au-
thorities, he says, could not have done
more than they did.
1t appears, moreover, that the judi
cial authority has been active and zeal
Gus in the discharge OF its functions in
order to proceed against the guilty par
ties, and that the judicial proceedings
have been prolonged by reason OF the
considerable number of persons whose
testimony must necessarily be heard,
and for causes which IL did not lie with
the Chilean authorities TO avoid.
From the accompanying documents
there appear, moreover, no grounds
whatever to warrant the assertion that
the sailors of the Baltimore were at
tackled in various places in the city at
the same time. On the contrary, 1t is
seen that the riot took place in one part,
OF the city only; in that part which is
we'll known by reason OF frequent dis
turbances OF this character, and that
within an hour from the beginning OF
the tumult and within half an hour