The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-02

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sWered, L am not sure, but we caught
an English collier trying to sneaS into
the harbOr this morning. That was all
the conversation j remember TO have
/ had with Captain Sigsbee personally.
/ Other men on the boat had some con-
veTsatiOn with him"
/ Did Captain Sigsbee during any
/ time of the conversation inform you
that the Spanish squadron was not in
| Santiago
He did not tell US that the Span
iards were not in there"
sigsbee and the spaniards,
On Contamination Mr.. seoviI said
/ that he had been at the megaphOne a
part of the time. He could not say
/ whether others on board the press boaC
/ had talked with Captain Sigsbee-
Then asked Mr.. RaynOT, ARE you
prepared to say on your oath that no
one in your boat asked Captain Sigsbee
/ whether Cervera was not In the harb0r
| at Santiago"
/ 1T is possible" was the reply. chat
/ q conversation might have taken place
on the part Of someone else, but as the
! Smith was d small boat, and as con
4 versation must necessarily be IN a loud
/ tone Of voice. 1 think / would have
/ heard il if there had been any"
I
] Are you then prepared to say that
! the testimony of Mr. Hare, in which he
! said that Captain Sigsbee had said
that the SpaniaTds were not at san
( tiago, is false?"
NO. am not prepared to say that
! his statement is false and that no such
/ conversation took place, but / can
/ swear that nothing Of the kind was
said while I was conducting the con-
/
/ pal part of it"
| Mr. ScOvil was then excused 81 ~
number Of the witneSsFes OF 'yesterea
were called for the purpose n maSins
/ corrections in theiK testimony. WhA,
| Captain Eaton of /the Resolute was on
! the stand for tkis purpose. Captaia
! Lemly asked hinh-
(Which way was the Brooklyn neafA-
/ ing when YOU saw her tunnels appeal
/ out Of the smoke TO the southWaIus -
| you stated yesterday
The witness replied, About south.
/ west. as I saw her nearly broadstds
/ on
Saw BT poklyn Turn.
He also said that when ne saw tn
| Brooklyn making her turn 'Elith com
/ Darative r2pidity' tA1e turn pau pesi
/ nearly completed
] ID L 4
/ said, in response to a question S-s22i
/ Mr.. Raynor, that there had been y
/ practical abrOgatiOn by the navy del
/ partment of the precautionary orders
/ concerning the bOmbardment Of span
/ ish shore batteries in order to permi
/ the bOmbardment of San Juan, Porto
/ Rico. He added that in his opinion
! there had been a general abrogatiors
of the order. but Mr.. Raynor objected
/ to the giving of opinions
Captain Chadwick was then excused
and Lieutenant John Hood. who com
manded the Hawk during the Spanish
war. was recalled. He was questioned
on the point made by Admiral Schles
/ in his testimony that the commanding
/ officer Of the Dolphin had filed with tn :
navy department a memorandum is
which he said, spea king Of Hoods re
/ turn from his mission 20 Commodore
| Schley while the latter lay on Glen
/ fuegOs, Hood says good many Of
fcers do not believe the Spaniards are
! there Cat CienfuegOs) at All, but tne1
/ can only surmise." In reply to q ques
/ ton as to what report he had mad
on which such a memorandum could
| have been based, the witness replied
Lieutenant Hoods Opinion.
81 reported to the commanding ON
Ger Of the Dolphin that I conversed
with a number Of officers and that
[ did not believe myself, nor did man!
of the officers believe, as far as ] coui,
make out. that the Spaniards Wer
there: that there was no reason 10
believing they were and I though
( Commodore SChIey had convinced him
! self they were there on very slende
/ grounds
Mr.. Hanna-Did you or not make an
report to the commanding officer or IN
Dolphin which would warrant the US
of language embodied in that memoT
andum?
ct did make such a report. one war
ranting stronger language than that
Mr. Hanna-HOw did you get tn
notes in reference to boarding tn
Adula?
L never boarded the Adula. re
turned 70 the flagship Brooklyn ate
/ collecting the mail under COmmOdor
} SchIeys orders about IL o'clock. Jusk
as 7 came on board I met Lieutenan
Simpson Of the 81 JOklyn who ne
/ boarded the Adula and had his write
report. I asked him to let me see 7
as there might be valuable ln1ormatio
in it. which he did. then told him
wanted a copy OF it to take back
the admiral. as there was. il nv opln
/ Simpson and myself went TO the ex
/ ecutive officers Office and he read n
notes over. He had the executive on
GERS writer make a copy Tor me 70 tax
back to the admiral as valuable in1oI
nation. He had just come out 1roT
making his report to the commands
Of the FIXING squadron. -That-2s quote
in the appendix. is an exact copy
SIMPSONS boarding report to the con
mander-in-chief of the flying SQUAD
ron"
Did Not Board Adnla-
Lieutenant Hood said in reply to
question from Mr.. RaynOr that he IA
not boarded the Adula. and that It'd
notes which he had carried back TO I'll
Dolphin were those made by lieuteT
ant Simpson; hence It was LieutenaT
Simpson and not himself who ha
boarded the British ship
Lieutenant Hood was then excused
I and a number of kilograms and on
ciaI dispatches. which have heretofoI
been nut in. were introduced al Ga
point for the convenience of counsel
Captain Lemly then stated that Z
had one more witness whom he desires
to call on Monday owing to the fad
that he was toe i'll to appear toda
and il was also stated that Admir-
Schley would again take the stand /,
the purpose of correcting his testimor
MIR. Raynor said he would have e
more witnesses, except, possibly. ia
admiral himself. There being no fo
Their business before the court. an 81
iourment was taken at 1875 uef
Monday at IL a. m.