The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-01-27
THE VALPARAISO euTcHERY.
The chiIians killed Our Men Because
They Hated the United states.

The ChiIians Killed Our Men Because
They Hated the United states.
WASHINGTON, Jan. GA complete
report of the testimony taken by Judge
Advocate Reny into the attack ON the
Baltimore's sailors at Valparaiso, which
was taken at Vallejo, Cal, has been re-
ceived at the navy department. A copy
is now in the hands of the president and
will be transmitted to congress, togeth-
er with the Gillian correspondence.
Some fifty of the sailors attacked by
the mob we've examined, and in their
testimony they agree that the attacks
We're made in different parts of the
town. They We're all treated with
great brutality by Gillian citizens, and
even the ponce of whom they sought
protection, in many cases, assaulted
them.
Killed by Gillian Soldiers.
Several of the sailors-J ohnson, Lam
gen and Larsen-testified that CHILEAN
soldiers fred the shots which killed
Boatswain's Mate Riggin. The testimo-
NY showed that many of the sailors Were
tack upon them was premeditated, and
these warnings later proved true.
Important Testimony.
LII. II IL. EOlllls VI IIe 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 Mt that place.
A ball had passed through Higgins
neck, fracturing two cervicai vertibre
and injuring his brain. From the direc-
ton taken by the ball and the character
IS kl,s. -.
size and the character of the wound. he
judged the bullet to have been fired
from a rifle. Several bruises and stab
wounds were also found. The bullet
found was necessarily Immediately
fatal.
DR.. Still says he made tests by firing a
rifle and a pistol bullet through pieces of
cloth placed against pieces OF meat
The rifle bullet hole corTesponded ex-
actly to the hole in the shirt of the sail
or, through which the bullet that killed
Riggin passed before striking him. The
pistol bullet made a hole very much
smaller. DR.. White, of the Baltimore,
says DR.. Still, agreed with him as to
higgins death being caused by rife
ball.
Simply Allowed to Die.
DIR. Still also testified I'M regard to a
piece of heartlessness in the case of
hotil4or Il uI1Duli- VINO Was studded INen-
ty-one times. DIR. Still examined him
the day after the stabbing, and found
that none OF the wounds were necessa-
rily 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 Tuin-
bulls condi don serious. He urged more
strenuously to be allowed to attend the
Baltimore men, but his request was
again refuted. He says that nothing
had been done for the men except the
putting of a little ointment on their
wounds.
The condition of the men was becom-
ing worse. and Turnbull, especially, was
failing fast, He and DIR. White applied
TO Judge of Crimes Foster for permits
sion 70 rem we tbs men TO the BaIti-
more for treatment, but their re-
guest 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
Dnll died two days later of blood poison
ing, resulting from the iimperfecfion in
his treatment at the hospital. DIR. Sill
says positively that there was no other
reason why Turnbull could not have re-
covered.
German was reelected senator from
MARYLAND,
Missing Farmer Pound Dead.
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