The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-30
OUR SIDE TOLD.
A Full Report of ValparaiSo'S
Brutal Butchery
Has Been Placed in the Hands of Pres
ident Harrison.
The Testimony Shows the Chiiians' Hostill.
ty to Americans-They Slaughtered Our
Sailors because of Their Hatred
Toward the United States.


Sailors because of Their Hatred
Toward the United states.
WAsHINGToN Jan. GA complete
report of the testimony taken by Judge
Advocate Remey into the attack on the
Baltimore's sailors ait Valparaiso,
which was taken at Vallejo, Cal, has
been received at the navy department.
A copy is now in the hands of the pres
ident and will be transmitted to con.
gress together with the Chilian corre-
spondence.
Some fifty of the sailors attacked by.
the mob were examined, and in theft
testimony they agree that the attacks
were made in different parts of the
town. They were all treated with
great brutality by Chilian citizens, and
even the police of whom they sought
protection, in many cases, assaulted
them
Several of the sailors--J ohnson, Lam
gen and Larsen-testfed that Chilian
Solliers fred the shots which killed
Boatswain's Mate Riggin. The testi-
mony showed that many of the sailors
were warned by friendly Chilians that
an attack upon them was premediated,
and these warnings later proved true.
Dr. L. II. Still, of the United States
navy, serving on the Baltimore, gives
important testimony. He says the
morning after the assault he went to
the St Juan hospital and examined the
wounded sailors and also the body Of
Riggin, which was also at that place
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neck, fracturing two cervical vertibrie
and injuring his brain. From the di-
rection taken by the ball and the char
acter of the tissues passed through and
the size and character of the wound, he
judged the bullet to have been fired
from rifle. Several bruises and sta b
wounds were also found. The bullet
wound was necessarily Immediately
fatal.
Dr. Still says he made tests by firing
a rifle and pistol bullet through pieces
of cloth placed against pieces of meat
The rifle bullet hole corresponded eX-
actly to the hole in the shirt of the
sailor, johnson. through which the bull
let that killed Riggin passed before
striking him.
uC plSlOl Uullcb al HOle very
much smaller. DR.. White. of the Balti-
more, DIR Still says, agreed with him as
t. Higgins death being caused by a
rifle ball
DIR. Still also testified in regard to a
piece of heartlessness in the case of
Sailor Turnbull, who was stabbed twen-
ty-one times. DIR. Still examined him
the day after the stabbing, and found
that none of the wounds were neces-
sarily serious if promptly attended TO-
He asked two sisters in charge to be
allowed to dress Turnbull's wounds,
but they refused on the ground that
they could not touch any wounds or
allow DIR. Still to touch any without
orders. The next day the doctor found
Turn bulls condition serious. He urged
more strenuously to be allowed to at
tend the Baltimore men, but his request
was again refused. He says that moth
ing had been done for the men except
the putting of little ointment on their
wounds.
The condition of the men was becom-
ing worse, and Turnbull, especially,
was failing fast He and Dr. White
applied to Judge of Crimes Foster for
permission to remove the men to the
Baltimore for treatment, but their re-
quest was not granted until two days
later
At the end of that time all the wound
ed were removed to the cruiser; but de-
spite the efforts of the physicians Turn
bull died two days later of blood pois-
oning, resulting from the imperfection
in his treatment at the hospital Dr.
Still says positively that there was no
other reason why Turnbull could not
have recovered.
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