The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-10
CHILE'S GAIT VERY SLOW
DISPARITY IN THE CdILRAN AND
BALTIMORE STORIES.

py q Ride Ball-Turnbuu Treated
With Great Brutality by the Chilean
Police.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-There can be no
doubt Of the fact that the administration
received with disappointment the dispatch
yesterday from Senior Pereira, the Chilean
minister Of foreign affairs, through Minis
ter Montt. 1t was a recapitulatiou Of the
findings of the Chilean judicial officer
corresponding with the district attorney
In our legal practice, instead Of a
statement that might be regarded as an
apology for an attack on the crew Of the
Baltimore. The length to which the pro-
ceedlngs have dragged along in Chile. and
the statement made to Secretary Blaine by
Minister Montt that other links remain to be
added to the long chain of legal formalites
In the shape of trial before Judge of crimes
upon indictment, naturally had an irritat-
Ing effect upon the administration, which
postponed further communication with con-
gress upon the subject In the hope that a
satisfactory understanding would be
reached in short time.
A TANGIBLE ADVANCEMENT.
Upon further consideration, however, It
appears that 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 characterized some of the pre-
oedlng communications from the Chilean
government. Minister Malta, Professionally
In charge Of the foreign affairs iu Chile,
In his reply to Minister Egan. on Oct. 20
last, spoke Of the attack on the Baltimore as
an affair" and as ''the disorders in Valpa>
raiso." Senor Pereira, the present minister,
regretfully speaks Of "the deplorable inci-
dent" and 'the unfortunate Incident"
IMMEDIATE APOLOGY NOT LOOKED FOR.
AS the proceedings so far in Valparaiso
have resulted only in indictments against
the offenders it is hardly to be presumed
| that the Chilean government after the
stand it has taken, can be expected to make
an anology and promise of rsparstion to
the United States until trial shall have
taken place and the prison.
ers are convicted of murderous as
sault. Minister Months statements war
rant the assumption that the trial is to
begin immediately, and if it is clearly ap-
parent that the regular processes of Chilean
law are being carried forward with proper
expedition, and that there is fair grouud Co
| expect an apology, the United States
government will doubtless continue to await
the result for reasonable length Of time.
DAvIDsON's CASE.
Minister Montt characterizes as absurd
the statement coming from Vallejo, Cal,
that Davidson, the Baltimore's sailor, was
tried and convicted in Chile without his
| knowledge or that of the officers of the ves-
sci. Minister Pereira's dispatch of yester-
| day supports Minister Months statement
on this point, for it shows that
| Davidson was indicted, but that he had not
been tried 1t is entirely improbable that
bo mi ha %r;o ;,,C g.
! it is Dot to be supposed that he would be
surrendered to the legal authorities OF that
country, even should they be SO presumptu-
GUS as to demand his surrender.
GRAVE DISPARITY.
Grave disparity is to be noted between
the findings of the Chilean district attorney
| and the testimony collected from the Balti-
more people concerning the attack on them
The reports Of the medical officers of the
vessel have reached the navy department
Medical Inspector Cooke, reporting on
Higgins death, says: AFTER receiving
several wounds not necessarily fatal, he was
wounded by rife ball, which In its course
wounded the jugular vein. = Some
of the wounds were inflicted post morrem.
There is good evidence, according
to reliable testimony, that the liberty party
from this ship, consisting Of III men,
were assaulted in at least six diff
ferent localities nearly simultaneously.
The attack was apparently pre-
meditated."
THE ILL-TREATMENT OF TUREBULL-
In the case of Coal HEAVIER Turnbull the
inspector says: HE died from pyamia,
following an incised wound penetrating his
left lung, He was taken to the hospital
He was first knocked down by blow on the
head with stone and cut while lying un-
conscious. He was arrested and taken un-
conscious to the prison ward. The
wound penetrated the pleura and
lung. He received eighteen or twenty other
stab wounds in the posterior. 1t was im-
possible for the medical officers of the ship
to secure proper attention for him, and at
tendance was entirely lacking at night.
The police, though appealed to-
would not pexmit him to be removed
to another eward. Finally, when
1t was represented that Turnbull
would probably die he and four others of
our wounded men were liberated and were
taken aboard ship. Turnbull died
Oct. 25. This attack was ap-
parently premeditated and inspired by the
hostility which a portion OF tue Chilean
people entertained toward Americans"
THE DISPARITY MADE PLAIN.
The disparity referred to is evident when
1t is noted that Minister Pereira's dispatch
1t was from revolver. The police carry
Columbian carbiues."
The medical officers report says that
higgins was killed by rifle ball, that other
men received bayonet wounds, and
that Turnbull was eighteen or twenty
times stabbed in the back while
living unconscious on his face, add that Rig
gins body was stabbed after death. To
reconcile these statements with those made
by the Chilean minister will be a difficult
task, but possibly the investigation now be-
ing conducted by Judge Advocate General
Remy at San Francisco will throw clearer
light upon the matter.
JUDGE REMY's INQUIRY.
VALLEJO, CAL, Jan. 9.-To-day was
on the sailors of the Baltimore. Judge Ad-
vocate General Remy presided alone, Dis
trict Attorney Carter being absent. Nearly
all the crew have now testified, and on Mon
day the officers will probably take the
stand. The case OF the United States as
stated by President Harrison in his mes
sage has been fully made out There can
no longer be any doubt that the mob was
organized before hand.
THE SAILORS WARNED.
Nearly every sailor was warned by at
least one person that the Baltimore's men
would be attacked at dark. A clerk Of the
hank where they changed their money
warned some Of them. An English sea cap
tain stopped others on the street and warned
them. and many others in all olassesssociety
also gave warnings. As a result, many OF
the sailors kept away from the low part of
the to wn and went to the fashionable resi-
danoa and buslnesg mart only TO be followed