The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-10-12

of the Dear Schley'' letter. but he would not
do so. He held, however, to the statement
that the McCalla memorandum had been car
ried in duplicate by both the Dupont and the
Iowa He had, however, no written evidence
that either the Hawk or the Marblehead had
carried the memorandum.
I'VE were likely to be on the safe side in
such matters said the witness and to have
chucked in the memorandum, but the Marble
head had not been relied upon to carry the
Mr.. Raynor questioned the witness at some
length on this point saying:
Il want to call your attention to this: Dis
patch No. was received en- Nav % by the
Hawk carried No. to Commodore Schley, and
this letter commences In reply to your letter
No. s, would state, and so on. Then it says:
Regarding inclosed information from McCalla.
Now. doesn't that refresh your memory upon
the Hawk he received with it the Enclosed in
formation from Captain McCalla, which is the
memorandum %
He probably did He might have received it
half dozen times That was not the first time
Does not that settle it that he got it from
the Hawk?'
Il do not know that it necessarily does
Lieutenant Marsh was then excused.
The last witness of the day was Captain
French E. Chadwick at present in command
stand at $3.50 and had not concluded his tes
timOny when the court adjourned. He was
questioned by Mr.. Hanna concerning the code
signals arranged by Captain McCalla of the
Marblehead with the nsurgent Cubans near
Cienfuegos. He replied:
captain McCdlld arrived OIL Inc IeelS VI
Key West at noon ON the 18th of May. He
came on board and was there some time with
Admiral Sampson and myself. After coming
an arrangement with the Cubans off Glen
fuegos by which they could communicate with
the ships. He said he did not care to have
anything said about it, he was going back
the next day and his would probably be the
m ken R We By s naS o get co sn
water until the next day, so that instead of
leaving on the goth he left on the 21st.
Was this system of signals reduced to writ
ing?"
What was said il anything, about reduc-
ing them to writing?
''He was anxious about them He did not
want the code to get out publicly he seemed
hold of it and get the Cubans into trouble
thereby
,'To whom, If you recollect did you COM
municate this system of signals or information
MY memory is entirely at fault regarding
that. 1 cannot say positively that l commune
Gated it to anybody.
did you communicate it to Commodore
THE signals We're not communicated to Com
modore Schley because Captain McCalla said
he was going back the next day at once and
would give them to all the ships off Cienfuegos
Was Commodore schey then in Key West %
He had left on the morning of the 18th for
Cienfuegos.''
Some hours before McCalla arrived with
this system of signals?"
About three hours before. "
DO you remember communicating this sys-
tenn yourself to Captain Evans?"
II have no recollection of 1t.
DO you remember whether Commodore
Schley was advised at that time that Captain
McCalla was operating off Cienfuegos or
not ?"
Schley on the New York.
He had been informed that Captain Nc
Calais ships would form part of his squad
l do not remember any part of the con,
versation Commodore Schley was board
the New York on the afternoon of the 18th I'M
til o'clock and as he was going to Cienfue-
COS the next day we supposed he would be
given the information.
You have referred to visit by Commodore
Schley at Key West. Can you state anything
that occurred there in Commodore Schley's
presence bearing upon the subject of this in
quiry?"
My only distinct recollection in regard to
a conversation was Commodore Schley's state
ment to the admiral that he desired to be per-
fectly loyal He said that he was pleased to
be under his command and that he could be
assured that he should be entirely loyal in
all his conduct.
AT what time did you fall in with the fly
ing squadron
1--WE anchored at Key West little before
4 O'Clock on the afternoon of the 18th of May
and found Commodore Schleys squadron
there.