Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Testimony Shows That the Attack was
Prearranged by the Chilean
Mob.
THE POLICE AND SOLDIERS AIDED
THE RIOTERS.
The Attitude Of Chile not 10 sailsfac.
tory a. Might Have been
Expected.
ny TeleDaph 10 the News
CHILEAN MATTERS.

by Tslesraph to tue NEWS
CHILEAN MATTERS.
The Testimony tn the "nsitiuiore-
an,ir.-ChiIe'- Attitude.
VALLEJO, Cal, Jan. g.-Today was
the third Of the Investigation Into tho
attack on the sailors OF the "Balti.
more" Nearly all the crew have now
testified, and Monday the officers will
probably take the stand. The case Of
the United states, NJ stated by prcsi.
dent Harrison In HIS message, has
been fully made out. There can no
longer be doubt that the mob had
organized before hand. Nearly every
sailor was warned by at least one per-
son that the "BaltimOrep men would
be attacked at dark. The clerk OF the
bank where they changed their money
warned some Of them. An English
sea captain stopped others on the street
and warned them, and many Others in
all classes OF society gave warning to
many Of the sailors who kept AWAY
from the low parts Of town aud went 10
the fashionable residence and business
Part, only TO be followed and attacked
there by the mob. There were at least
Tour different localities, some Of them
over half mile apart, where attacks
on tue sailors were made stimuli
taneously,
The shameful part played by Valpa.
raiso police and soldiers becom,s moro
and mare evident daily. Nearly every
witness was abused and insultsd by
them, while the evidence that II war
they who shot and killed Riggin IL con-
elusive.
Captain Schley said today to anAs-
ISOLATED Press reporter: "whsn went
TO Chile was prcIudiced against Min.
lister Egan; but found him quiet,
intelligent, estimable gentleman, firm
yet not bolsterous, aud in every way
determined TO do his duty 10 the United
Statee. His letters TO the Chilean gov.
eminent were diplomatic masterpieces,
unanswerable In logic. firm aud decid-
ed, aud yet thoroughly polite and re-
tpectful. | soon concluded that he was
the right man In the right place. The
British minister, Kennedy, declared la
my presence that he had written to
Lord Salisbury that Egan's conduct
throughout had been dignitied and
rommsndzble, and TINT In him the,
United STATES had minister In whom
any country might well lie proud"
cHiLE's ATTITUDE.
WAsHINoTuS, Jan. 9.-rhere IL DO
doubt that the administration received
with disappointment the dispatch ye,-
teriay from Senior Seriers, Chilean
minister OF foreign affairs, through
Minister Mont. II was recapitu.
latlon Of the finding Of the Chilean
Judicial officer, Instead OF n statement
that might be regarded ~ an apology
for the attack on the crew OF the "Bai.
timore." Tho length 10 which tho
proceedings have dragged, aud the
statement 10 Blaine by Mont that
other links are to be- added TO tue long
chain Of legal formalities, naturally
has had an IRRITATING effect upon the
which postponed fur.
ther communication with Congress
upon the subject, In the hope that
a satisfactory understanding would DO
reached In a short time. Upon further
however, 1t appears that
the dispatch marks a tangible advance
ment toward the de-irrd object.
The tone OF the dispatch Is much
more friendly and conoiliatory than
that which characterized some Of the
preceding communications.
A. the proceedings ~ far has re-.
suited In indictments against the
Offenders, II Is hardly presumed that
The Chilean government, after the
stand II has taken, will be expected TO
make an apology and promise reparA.
ton until the trial has taken place and
the prisoners convicted OF the murder
BUS assault. Minister Months state
nent warrants the assumption that the
Trial Will begin immediately, and II II
! apparent that the regular processes Of
Chilean law are being carried forward
with proper expedition, and there 10 q
air ground " expect an apology, the
United states government will doubt
ess continue TO await the result for q
time. Minister Montt
,haractGrlkrs AZ absurd the statement
coming from Vallejo, Cal, that David
on, the "Baltimore" sailor, was triod
md convicted In Chile without his
or that OF the officers Of the
'essel. Minister Pereiras' dispatch OF
yesterday supports Months statement
N this point, for II shows that David
on was indicted, but not tried. IL In
ulircly improbable that he viii ever
10 tried In Chile for rloting, as II 10 not
that he would be surrepdered
o the legal authorities OF that country,
ven should they demand his sur.
ender.
A grave disparity Ia noted between
he finding Of the Chilean district at
orney and the testimony collected
rom the "Baltimore" people concerns
ny the attack on them. The report OF
he medical officers OF the vessel have
eaohed the navy department. Med.
ral Inspector Cook, reporting on Rig.
ine' death, says: after receiving
sveral wounds, not necessarily fatal,
10 was wounded by rife ball Some
POUNDS Were inflicted post norton.
here Is good evidence that tho party
rom the ship, consisting OF III msu,
'ere assaulted in at least six different
realities nearly simultaneously. The
tack was apparently premeditated."
In the case OF Coalheaver rurnbull
he inspector says; "He died FROM
ymmia from an incised wound pene.
-atiug the left lung. He was frst
nocked down by n blow on tho head
18th stone, and cut while lying UNI
onsclous; he was arrested and taken,
nconscious, to the prison ward. The
QUAD penetrated the plsura anu lung.
Ia received eighteen or twenty other
abs and wounds In tho pasterIor. II
as impossible for the medical officers
the ship 10 secure prOper atlsntinu