New-York tribune., 1892-01-10
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CHILPS SLOW LAW PROCESS.
HOW SENIOR PEREIRAS DISPATCH WAS RE-
CEIVED.
LESS UNFRIENDLY TONE MANIFEsT-REPoRIS
OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS on THE
WOLNDED MEN.

WOUNDED MEN.
Washington Jan. 9-There can he no doubt Of
the fact that the Administration received with
disappointment the dispatch yesterday from Senor
Pereira. the Gillian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
through Minister Nontt. II was simple re-
capituaton of the findings of the Chilian judicial
officer corresponding with the Dstrct-Attorncy
in legal practice, instead of n statement that
might be regarded an apology for the attack
on the crew of the Baltimore. The length to
which the proceedings have dragged along in Chilli
and the statement made to Secretary Blaine by
Minister MONTE that other links remain to be added
to the long chain of legal formaities in the shape
of trial before the judge of crimes upon
the Indictment, naturally had an irritating effect
upon the Administration, which had postponed
further communication with Congress upon the
subject in the hope that satisfactory understand.
ing would be reached in a short time.
Upon further consideration, however, it appears
chat the dispatch marks a tangible advancement
toward the desired object. In the first place, the
tone OF the dispatch is much more friendly and
conciliatory than that which characterizes some
of the preceding communications from the Chilian
Government Minister Malta, Professionally in
charge of the foreign affairs of Chilli in his reply
to Minister Egan, October 20 spoke OF the
attack on the Baltimore affair and as
'"O "iooiutIS Ill valparaiso.
Senor Perelra, the present Minister, rearetfully
speaks of " the deplorable incident and the
unfortunate Incident As the proceedings so far
in Valparaiso have resulted only in indictments
against offenders, it is hardly TO be presumed
that the Chilian Government after the stand ID
has taken, can be expected to make an apology
and promise of reparaton to the United States
until the trial shall have taken place and the
prisoners are convicted of the murderous assault.
Minister Months statements warrant the assump-
ton that the trial is to begin Immediately, and
if il is clearly apparent that the regular process of
Chian laws are being carried forward with proper
expedition and that there is fair ground to expect
an apology, the United States Government will
doubtless continue TO await the result for o
reasonable length of time.
Minister Montt characterizes as absurd the state
ment coming from Vallejo. Cal, that Davidson.
the Baltmore's sailor. tried and convicted in
Chilli without his knowledge that of the officers
of the vessel Minister Pereira's dispatch Of yes
terday supports Minister Months statement on this
point for it shows that Davidson was indicted hun
had not been tried. 1t is entirely improbable tha.
lie will be tried in Chill for rioting as it is o5
TO be supposed that ne would be surrendered l. tne
legal authorities Of that county, even should they
be SO yresumptuous as tn demand his surrender. A
grave disparity is 10 be noted between the findings
of the Gillian Uistrict-Attorney and the imony
collected from tie Baltimore people concerning
the attack on them. The reports Of the medical
officers Of the vessel have reached the Dep ,rtment
Medical INSPECTOR Cooke, reporting one Riggans
death, says
After several wounds necessarily fatal hs
wounded by rife bali which in its wounded
the iugular vein. some Of the wounds inflicted
pcs.motm There Is good evidence, according 10 relI
able testimony, that the liberty party from this ship
ssne OF III men, assaulted in different
localite, nearly simultaneously. The spEar
entity prcmeditsed.
In the case OF Coal-heaver TurnbulI, the In
spector says:
He died from pysemia. following an incised wound
penetrating the left lung. He taken the hospital
He first knocked down by blow the head with
stone and cut Will, lying unconscious. lie srrestd
and taken unconscious a prison ward. The wound
penetrated tho pcura aud lung. He received eighteen
twenty other stab wounds in the posterior. II
impossible for the medical officers OF the ship 10 secure
proper attention for him, aud attendance
tircIv lacking night. The police appealed to-
would permit him BE- removed to another ward.
Finally. when it represented that Turnbull would
probably die he and four Others Of wounded were
liberated and wee taken aboard the ship Turnbuu
died October %. This attack apparently premedl-
tated and nspirod by hostility which portion
Gillian people entertain toward Americans.
The disparity referred to is evident when il
is noted that Minister Perciras dispatch says that
only isolated shot was fired. 1t was from
a revolver The police carry Columbian carbnes.
The medical officers report says that Riggan was
killed Ly a rifle ball. that other men received
bayonet wounds that Iurnbull was stabbed
eighteen twenty times in the back while lying
unconscious on his face, and that Riggans body
was stabbed after death To reconcile these state
ments with those made by the Chilian Minister
will be difficult task but possibly the inyestig-
ton now being conducted by Judge Advocates
General Rerny, at San Francisco, will throw a