The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-29
SCHLEY is EXAMINED
LEMLY GETS IN A LOT OF CROSS
FIRING.
THE ADMIRAL HOLDS HIS OWN
MANY WITNESSES ARE YET TO BE
CALLED.

nesses Whose "RecO1IectiOn" Was
Bad-AmOng These Was Admiral
Evans-He Did Make the Remarks
Attributed to Him on His Coming
Aboard the brooklyn, Says Schley.
Washington, Oct. 2S.-The cross-ex-
animation of Admiral Schley began to-
day before the court of inquiry and
hardly more than third of the ground
was covered when the court adjourned
at o'clock. After Admiral Schley con-
cludes two other witnesses will be call
ed in his behalf, Rear Admiral Barker
and Capt. Thomas Borden. The latter
was an officer of the Marine Corps
aboard the Brooklyn. The judge advo-
cate then will call his witnesses in re-
buttal, of whom there are understood
to be more than fifteen, and it is prob
able THAT Admiral Schleys counsel
will call witnesses in sur-rebuttal.
The crowd present to-day, while
hardly so large as on Friday last, when
Admiral Schley told the story of the
battle of Santiago, showed unabated
interest in the proceedings. Nothing
sensational developed, and the only
outburst in the court occurred when
Mr.. Rayner, Admiral Schley's counsel,
objected to line of inquiry of the
judge advocate designed to criticise
Admiral Schley's alleged failure to for
mulate plan of battle, with the dec
laration that as Admiral Sampson was
in command his junior had no right to
plan an order of battle.
Admiral Schley concluded his direct
examination, which continued only
about ten minutes after the court con-
vened this morning, with a statement
of the effect of the fire of the respective
fleets at Santiago, showing that S6 per
cent. of the hits suffered by the enemy
were scored by the Brooklyn's 5-inch
guns, while his ship received 10 per
cent. of the hits from the Spanish
ships.
Capt. Lemly's cross-examination was
very searching. Admiral Schley, how
ever, appeared to be unruff1ed through
out the examination, frankly admitting
CAA oNN NOi Oh OSNdSlOilo lIldl lie not
remember little details after the lapse
of three years. One line of inquiry
which the judge advocate tried to press
to show that Admiral Schley did not
proceed with dispatch" from Key
West to Cienfuegos by attempting to
contrast the speed made between
Charleston and Key West with the
time between Key West and Cienfue-
gos was curtailed by a decision of the
court, which confined the questions to
the time subsequent to May 10, the day
on which the Flying Squadron left Key
West.
Points Stressed by LemIy.
The judge advocate in his cross-ex-
animation, dwelt upon the interview
between Admiral Sampson and Com
modore Schley at Key West before the
departure of the Flying Squadron, at
which Admiral Schley testified that
Admiral Sampson instructed him not
to expose his ships to shore batteries
until the Spanish fleet had been de-
stroyed, on the fact that Admiral
Schley issued no written order of bat
tie, on the question of coaling off Glen
fuegos and the steps taken there to as
certain the presence of the Spanish
fleet. He was cross examining Ad-
miral Schley upon matters connected
with the cruise of the squadron from
Cienfuegos to Santiago when the court
adjourned The retrograde movement,
the firing upon the Colon and the bat
tie of Santiago, which constitutes the
main features of the precept, were not
touched upon day.
When Admiral Schley took the stand
at the morning session he testified that
he did not recall the signal on May 81,
do not go in any closer" He was
then asked about his talk with Capt
Evans. He said
Evans Recollection Bad.
81 would say of Capt. Evans, as /
have said of all the others. / do not
believe he would willingly misstate. 1
think his recollection is at fault. He
did have a conversation with me in re-
lation to shooting the bow off of one
of the torpedo boats, and the stern off
another, and putting his helm a-star-
board and raking one ship and then
aport, and raking another. My recol-
lection now is that preliminarily he
said to me. Did you see Jack Philip
start to run away? and 1 said, no
that he was mistaken. 1t was the
Brooklyn that made the turn, and I
asked him If he did not see the tactical
necessity for it,"
Mr. Rayner then called Admiral
Schley's attention to the testimony of
Taylor and Capt. Dawson that
the Brooklyn when she made the loop
went southwark a mile or a mile and a
half.
Taylor and Dawson Mistaken.
"I think they are entirely and abso-
lutely mistaken" replied the admiral.
"The Brooklyn did not pass TO the
southwark of the line except the dis
tance perhaps of her tactical diameter,
which surely was not greater than coo
yards and from that time she steered
a course parallel to the Spaniards and
| do not think we were over 1900 or
400 yards at any time from the Span
Ish line. / say emphatically that the
Brooklyn did not run south and any
statement to the contrary is a mis-
take"
Admiral Schiey stated In reply TO a
question from Mr.. Raynor that when
he started 10 the westward from San
tlago he left the st. Paul at the latter
place.
The BrookIyn's Many Hits.
The Admiral then spoke OF the hits
on the Spanish squadron. The Brook
lyn, he testified. was the only ship car
rying 5-inch guns. A record OF the
hits received by the enemy showed that
2G per cent of the hits scored BY the
American feet came from those guns
on the Brooklyn. The Brooklyn re-
ceiYed 30 Of the AZ hits from the SDan-
ish feeL " about 70 per cent, with