The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-03
Sons Further Repetition j Things R. E.
Cox Did hot DO.
5 FAMOUS FAKE +: RE-ExPLoDED
He Gould Not fInYo Boon In Havana
In tho Flesh IL 9 nj light Have Been
There I'm the SpIrit-Nnyni Activity
"A Draft for tho Mtnnronomah-
The Underwater.

The Firginian yesterday investigated
still further the record of X. T.. Cox,
who perpctrated ON certain NOrfolliians
Saturday pretty little fairy tale CON
corning an alleged visit to Havana
and what he saw there under the
water
Lieutenant Bagley. executive officer
OF the Winsow, emphatically branded
the report as a fake, and Commodore
farquhar has assured The FlrSinian
that the Lieutenant's statement Is per-
fectly correct.
An officer stationed at the yard was
interview, and gave the reporter the
following facts about this naval novel
:St:
Cox was sent from the Maine about
nine months ago to the navy-yard,
washington, for Instructions IN gun
merry ut the ordnance factory there,
where u class OF scamen are instructed
as seamcn Eunners, In q course which
occupies six months or whereabouts.
From Washington he was sent to New
pore r.. J., to finish the course. At
Newport these seamen gunncrs receive
instructions in handling torpedoes, high
explosives and in diving. Cox went
through these courses and was then
transferred from the torpedo station at
Newport to the Winslow, where he is
now gunners matc--iirst-chss.
He positively has not been near
Havana. has consequently not done
any diving about the Maine and his
story was fake pure and simple,
winch he spun to few gulclcss cti-
zens ashore.
You can unhcstatlngly deny the
truth or CoN'S yarn and vouch for the
statement that he has not been near
the Maine or Havana harbor in the
past six months
.,
absurd story, Cox would be amenable
TO severe punishment for violation
OF article 236, of the United States
Navy regulations. This may be in
,ercsting and you may publish it.
Here It is:
Article 23G, United States Naval
itegula tions-All persons belonging to
me navy, or employed under tile Navy
Department, are forbidden to publish
or cause or permit to be published
directly or Indirectly, or to communi-
cate by interviews, private letters or
otherwise, except as required by their
Official duties, any information In re-
gard to the foreign policy of the United
skates, or concerning the acts or
measures of any department of the
Government, or of any officer actinp
tnereunuer, or any comments or criti-
ciSms thereon, or any official instruc-
lions, reports or letters upon any sub.
| Ject whatever, or TO furnish comics O,
the same to any person without The
permission OF the Navy Department
No person belonging TO the navy OF
employed under the Navy Department
! shall act as the correspondent of q
newspaper, discuss in the public prints
matters pertaining to the personnel Of
the naval service, or attempt to in.
| iluence legislation In respect to The
navy, without the express authority
and approval Of the department. AM
Violation of this article will be noted
| IN the record of the person concerned i
Seaman Gunner Cox, of the crew OF
the torpedo boat Winslow, who talked a
| great deal about what he saw under
| the bat'!leship Maine in Havana harl,,l
Whsn he went down underneath her II
inspect the hole; will likely he court.
martiaied, not for disclosing official Sc.
crets, for Cox had never on near Ha.
Nana since the explosion, but his dcclar-
! alton that he had discovered thnr ,tbe
| destruction of the hattleship was due
10 exterior causes, is regarded rs Ian.
Guage calculated TO cause in international
| complications.