The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-01-22
DR., STILLS TESTIMONY,
Ills Statements Concern
ing the "Baltirnore'
Outrage.
THE CHILIAN SITUATION

HhM the Herald Correspondent at
Valparaiso Says What is
Doing at Washington.
By the United Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l. Aeon.
plete report of the testimony taken
by Judge Advocate Remey into the |
attack on the Baltimore's sailors
at Valparaiso, which was taken at
Vallejo, has been received at the
Navy department. A copy is now
in the possession of the President
and will be transmitted to Con-
gress together with the Chilian cor
respondence. Some fifty of the
sailors attacked by the mob were
examined and in their testimony
they agree that the attacks were
made in different parts of
the town. They were all
treated with great brutality by Chill
in citizens and moreover the polio e
of whom they sought protection III
many cases assaulted them. Several
of the sailors. johnson, Langen and
Larsen, testified that Chiiian sol
diers fred the shots which killed
Boatswain Mate Riggin. The tes-
timony showed that many of the
sailors were warned by friendly
Chilians that an attack upon them
was premeditated and these warn
ings later proved true. DR.. T. R.
Still. assistant surgeon of the United
States Navy, serving on the balti-
more, gives important testimony.
) He says the morning after
the assault he went to the
San Juan hospital and examined
the wounded sailors and also the
, body of Riggin, which was also at
that place. From direction taken
by the ball and the character Of the
tissues passed through and the size
and character of wounds he judged
the bullet to have been fred from a
rifle. Several bruises and stat
z wounds were also found. The bul
let wound was necessarily imme
e diately fatal. Dr.. Still says ht
T. = made tests by firing a rifle and {
u pistol bullet through pieces of clotl
j. placed against pieces of mat. The
q rifle bullet hole correspondet
II exactly to the hole IL
IS the shirt of the sailo
D. Johnson. through which the bulle
l. that killed Riggin passed befor
IS striking him. The pistol bulle
a made hole very much smaller. DIR
"a White of the Baltimore, DR.. Still
II says, agreed with him as to Riggin'
'e death beng caused by rifle ball
DR.. Still also testified in regar
to a great piece of heartlessness il
the case of Sailor Turnbull, VIII
was stabbed twenty-one times. Dl
Still examined him the day afte
ne the stabbing and found that none
lis the wounds were necessarily seriou
m if promptly attended to. He aske
I'd two sisters in charge to b
,g allowed to dress Turnbull
be wounds, but they refused On tn
tn ground that they could not touc
any wounds or allow DR.. Still
be touch any without permission OF
he physician in charge. The next ola
,ss the Doctor called again and toun
ia Turnbull's condition critical. 4
de urged more strenuously to De pc
,r mitted to attend theBaltimore's me-
ar but his request was again refuse
Or He says that nothing had been dol
Vi for the men except the putting of
he little ointment on their wounds. II
condition of the men was grown
nv worse and Turnbull was fallll
,nt fast. He and DR.. White applied
on Judge Of Crimes Foster for pt
of mission to remove the men to t
Ills Baltimore for treatment, but tht
the request was not granted until t
davs later. At the end Of that til