St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-20
GILLIAN CHILO'S PLAY
The Report Of the Promoter
Fiscal a Silly, Insincere
Document.
By Reasoning Wonderfully
Strange He Condemns
Americans.
Davidson Found Guilty Of a
Heinous Crime and Given
Fifteen Years.
Gillian Ships Under Steam
and Ready for Fighting
at Call.

New YORK, Jan. 19.-The World OF
tomorrow will contain the following,
copyright article:
Valparaiso. Jan. 10, via Galveston.
1t is true that the Chilian government
notified Capt. Evans, of the Yorktown,
that it is unable TO guarantee the safety
of the refugees on board his ship if he
undertook to transfer them 10 departing
steamers, and neither could the govern
meDt prevent any steamer OH which they
took passage from being searched in
any Gillian port at which the vessel
might touch while on her way north.
There was change of mind on the
part of the CHILEAN authorities in regard
to these refugees. In proof of this it is
only necessary to look at the facts. In
the following statement. from a high
authority, it is claimed that the govern
ment was powerless in the premises:
"The governments of Chilli has no right
under the constitution of the country to
interfere with the courts or with the
public prosecutors, and the government
could not prevent the seizure of the
refugees in any port of Chill they
touched at on their way in any direction
to neutral port"
The Gillian Side.
The report of the promoter fiscal TO
the judge of crimes in the Baltimore.
affair has been given to the public, and
there has been time to examine it. This
document contains 5000 words, and says
that efforts were directed from the first
QCaQrfqIn fhQ nriOln nf the trnylhlat
but that they were unavailing. Saveral
different accounts of the affair were re-
ceived.
The commandant of police states that
the row began in some unknown tavern
in one part of the city. Another wit
ness states that it began BIZ
American sailors beating one Of
the Chilian sailors in an altogether
different part of the town. The Gillian
police say it began with fight be-
tween left-handed CHILEAN sailor and
cident is reported to have been COM
menced by some Chilans splitting In the
faces of two American sailors in the
street. A crowd near by was waiting
to attack them should they resent the
insult, so it was said at the time. The
Baltimore's men took refuge on tram
car, but the crowd stopped the car and
hauled the men out, beating them with
sticks and stones and knitting them.
Premeditated Attack.
The promoter fiscal has accepted the
story that the trouble began with the
resenting by the Americans of the spit
ting in their faces by some Chilians. For
all that, my information leads me to be-
lieve that the attack broke out stimuli
taneously in different parts of the city,
Drnn ri III nr 10
sage.
This is denied by the Chilians, and
the promoter closes the introduction to
his report by asserting that the fight
owes its origin to two drunken Balti-
more sailors striking a CHILEAN sailor.
He then recounts a list of the injured
and says it has only been possible to
establish the cuIpability of four men.
The testimony of James johnson and
Charles Langin, two of the Baltimore's
crew, whose testimony was taken here,
was rejected in the following language:
How is it if, as Johnson depOSeS, they
left the house together and went to-
getber to the scene of the occurrence. it
results that they did not know each
other nor had they spoken to each other
until they met at the scene of Boat
swain;s Mate Higgins death?. How is
it that before knowing Langin he de-
poses that on the day of the occurrence
they were dining together In the board
ing house? And johnson also says that
on the day of the occurrence he dined
together with Langin in an eating house
in COchrane street. Moreover. is it pos
ed man and the knowing if he walks or
not could pass unobserved under such
or any other circumstances?
The Conclusion Drawn
is that persons who indulge in such in
constituencies are not worthy of belief.
He SAYS further that their testimony is
contradicted by that of numerous wit
nesses, which fully proves that it is not
possible to attribute Higgins death to
the police, but that it was the work of
some unknown person thus far unde-
tected.
l will add that the testimony of these
numerous witnesses is as full of incon-'
sistencies as is that of johnson and
Langin. Further, their testimony CON
firms much of JOhnson's and Langin's.
such as the raising of Riggin up, the
calling for liquor, the holding of Rig
gins head on Johnson's shoulder, hear
ing shots. etc. But no one testifes who
fred the shot.
Langin's testimony was substantially
this: when RiggiD rose the first time
two policemen came up. They drew
short swords and knocked him down
again. They then stood back and let
the crowd beat him. Afterward a SQUAD
of soldiers approached and marched by
twos under command of a mounted off
eer. They marched to within six feet
from where johnson was holding Rig.
gin in his arms. There they halted
and the first two soldiers lifted their
rifles and fired at the two Americans
sailors. q
Deliberate Shooting.
81 was about fifteen feet off on one !
side" continued Langin. mo one was
between me and them, the crowd being
back of the soldiers at that moment. 1
No other shots were fired by any one. l
distinctly saw the soldiers level their
rifles at the Baltimore's men and fire.
The crowd had drawn back when the
soldiers came up, leaving a clear pas
sage between Riggin and the soldiers.
After the first shot was fired the SOL
diers pressed forward little, and 1
could not see the second man who fired,
but am sure it was one of the leading
soldiers who fred" AS many witnesses
exist who are ready to say that the shot
was fired by tie police as there are that i
deny Ii.
Then follows the report of the experts
on the bullet hole. He says: "Opinion
is divided on this point among doctors
still, and while they assert their opin-
ion that 1t was caused by rifle bullet,
it is rejected because they give no
reason for the opinion" Drs. CaTallo