Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-01-23
Special Direct From Valparaiso Gives
the Court of crimes
Decision.
Il Denies that Chilians are RESPONSE
for Beginning the
Row.
The Punishment OF Four Men in
Different Degrees is
Recommended.


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VALPARAISO, Jan l9, (yia Galveston) r
| The report of the fiscal judge of crimes
has been given to the public, and there
has been time 90 examine II. II says that
several ditfereu accounts of the atflr
were received, The commandant Of 20.
| lice states thai the row began ia some
| unknown tavern near The port of the city.
| Another witness says it began by Amer.
| lean sailors beating Chilean
sailor in a different part Of tha city
| The CHILEAN police say At began with
| left handed CHILEAN sailor and an Ameri-
can and last Of all the incident is reported
| 10 he commenced 10y some Chiians spit.
| ting in the faces of two American sailors,
a crowd waiting by 20 attack them should
| they resent the insult The Baltlmore's
men took refuge on car but they stopped
the car and hauled the men out, beating
| them with sticks aud stones and knitting
! them
The procurator fiscal has accepted this
| last story. "For all that, my information
| leads me to believe that the attack broke
out simultaneously in different parts Of
| the city as charged in President Har-
rison' message This is denied by the
| Chilians, and the procurator closes the in
| Production of his report 10y asserting that
| the fight owes its origin 20 two drunken
| Baltimore sailors striking Chihm
sailor He recounts the list Of
| injured and says Y has only been
| possible TO establish the Culpability of
four men The testimony OF James John
| son and Charles Lanrin is rejected by the
prolura'or, because of one or tw inCon.
s'stenCes rs to their whereabouts that
! day. He further say their testimony is
contradictory because Of tnat Of numerous
witnesses which fully proves 1t Is not pos
| sihle TO attribute higgins death 10 the
police, but that it was the work OF some
unknown person,
81 will add says the correspondent,
! that the testimony Of those numerous
! witnesses is as full o. inconsistencies as that
/ OF johnson and lnngin Further, their
! testimony confirms much of Johnson and
! Langlu's The latter says That when Rig
! gin rose the first time two police came up,
They drew short swords and knocked him
down again; then stood back and let
the crowd beat HIM Afterward a squad
OF soldiers approached and marched
by twos, under command Of mounted
officer, to within six feet from where
johnson was holding RIggin in his
arms There they halted, and the frat
two soldiers leyeied their rides and fired
at the two American sailors Langin says
hc distinctly saw this AS many wiz
nesges exist, says the correspondent,
who are ready 20 say that the shot
was fred By the police az are they
that deny Then follows the report Of
experts ON the bullet hole. He says
| Opinion Is divided on this point among
doctors and while they assert that death
was caused by rifle bullet, 1t is rejected
because they give no reason for their
opinion Drs. Cayall and CdIveron main
tain that they cannot tell If a bullet caused
Riggin's death and give as reason that
they saw the pody after death. "
The procurator makes a strong point Of
Johnson testimony that he had higgins
head on his breast when the two shots
were fired, and bullet passed through
his neckerchief and shirt, the procurstor
asking how this could be- without wound.
ing Johnson The Correspondent says The
PLAIN answer to this question IL an unquFs.
toned fact The bulet parsed diagonally
downward through the loose shirt Of
fJohnson and into RiggIn's neck IL could
easily have done 80 and passed two inches
srom his breast. lohn David, Baltl-
more sailor, was found guilty Of hitting
with a stone a one armed CHILEAN sailor,
who WAS knitting an American sailor
The final findings were: II hsk the court
10 condemn Federico Rodriguez TO minor
punishment in minimum degree OF from
s1ty-one to $40 days; Carlos Gomez TO
minor punishment in the maximum degree
for three years; John Davidson, to prison
in the medium degree from ten 10 fifteen
years; Jose Ahumara, h. prison in the
medium degree, from three years TO five
yeafs.
Rodriguez, Gomez and Ahumada we're
convicted Of using Knives on Americans,
while Davidson, as related above was
convicted of hitting man with a stone
A gentleman who understands the CHILEAN
! people and government pr tty well
says il is difficult TO say what
is the motive Of some conduct Of the
government, unless it be war. Sometimes
they seem bent on difficulties and adding
insult to insult They have a a very good
opinion Of themselves and fancy they are
great diplomats, but seem to care pre-
cious little for tbe diplomatic rights Of
others Among some of them the
opinion prevails that the United States
would not comics ccDdto fight 80 inferior
a fee but among others there exists the
insane belief that she would not dare do
70.
One Of The latest disclosures is the fact
that Thompson. correspondent Of the Ion
don Times, il trying to sen Chlli man Of
war.