Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-12
ADJOURNED AT 1 O'CLOCK.
The schley Case Will Be Taken Up
 Again Monday.

sons chief of staff during the war with Spain, continued his testimony before the Schley court of inquiry to-day. He was under croSS-eXamination at the hands of MT Rayner when the couft adjourned yesterday and that gentle man continued his interrogatories when the court convened at Il o'clock this morning. Other witnesses of tine day were Lieutenant Sidney A. StalDl- ton, who was Captain Chadwick's s prin- cipal assistant, and Lieutenant Nathan c. Twining, who was aboard the bai tleship Iowa as an officer during the Santiago campaign. Most or yester- days witnesses were recalled for the purpose of correcting tnelr testimony.
 There was only one session of the court to-day, a decision having been reached yesterday to adjourn at o'clock to-day until next Monday, in order to give the members of the court and counsel an opportunity for recrea- tion and recuperation.
 Captain Lemly said to-day that he had made such progress during the present week that he expected to be able to conclude the presentation oG the government side of the case by the close of the session on Monday. It is understood that Mir Rayner will be pre- pared to immediately begin the intro- duction of Admiral SchIey's witnesses, and 1t is his present intention to press the case forward as rapidly as possI- ble.
 Attorney Rayner questioned Cap tain Chadwick concerning the letter sent to Admiral Schley by Admiral Sampson on May 2S.
 Lieutenant Commander Staunton was the next witness, and related the particulars of finding the Spanish fleet in Santiago
 Just before adjournment for dinner, Judge 44dvocate Lemly made remark about the conduct of MT Rayner, which remark the latter resen ed. MT Rayner had attempted to introduce the statement in regard to the speed of the vessels of the flying squadron. Captain Lemly objected, saying that some of the statements of MT Rayner were inaccurate. To this MT Rayner responded: "If the counsel makes that statement outside of court it is false" Berore court adjourned there were l explanations on both sides, which Ad- miral Dewey considered sufficient" Captain Chadwick, in his testimony yesterday, in detailing how Cerveras s fleet was discovered, said: "The first 1 intImation we had was by a telegram from the navy department mention ing that the information may well be correct Next day Lieutenant Com | mander Staunton was in Key West, and he saw Captain Allen, who sad that the evening before he had re- ceiyed a communication from Havana that the Spanish squadron had gone 1 into Santiago, and he was only wait l ing until the evening or the 26tn to have that corroborated. as the opera | tor who sent the information only put himself ill communication with our 1 office in Key West about once day, about o'clock in the evening. | Staunton came with that information | and then went up in the evening to | await a second telegram, which cor | roborated the fact and which caused Admiral Sampson to believe that the | Spanish fleet was in Santiago and l also caused him to write the second dispatch directing the movement to- l wards Santiago"
 MT Rayner: ~Is this the telegram you refer to: The report of the Span 1 ish fleet being at Santiago de Cuua might very well be correct, so that department strongly advises that you send word immediately to the Iowa to Schley to proceed off Santiago de
 Cuba with his whole command, ! etc?''
 '.That is the telegram I referred to-"
 ssDid I understand you to say that that caused the belief that the Span ish fleet was in Santiago"
 .'No,. oh, no, no. What caused the l l. inf ion from Captain Allen of the signal corps who was in charge of the tele- | graph office in Key yves. He in formed Lieutenant Staunton who was in Key West at noon on the 2O,h that this information had come over night from Havana"
 Could I interrupt you just min- ute? Was No ' the dispatch referred to (the Dear Schley' dispatch as be- Il ing sent in answer to tnIs inclosure n | ssYes That was sent after receiv- ing this dispatch"
 "The admiral then telegraphed the department practically paraphrase of this letter No 7?'
 ssThis dispatch and the telegram to the department paraphrasing IL were prepared on the night of the 18th and | were sent that night, I think. At noon of the 20th Lieutenant Staunton saw Captain Allen in Key West and Staunton was again sent to Key West and came back with the assurance from Captain Allen that the Spanish fleet was there. Then the aoubt in
 Admiral Simpsons mind was Fe- moved and he then wrote a dispatch to be sent by the Marblehead, which we were expecting to get off hourly
 She. however, was delayed anu the flagship got under way at o'clock in the morning of the zAst and went
 over to Havana. From there, as
 there was this possibility or a longer
 delay in the Marblehead's departure
 than was expected, he sent the Eagle
 and the Hawk with a copy of this dis
 patch to Commodore Schley, also
 with verbal instructions to the com
 manding officer of the Hawk to move
 at once towards Santiago"
 sIs this the dispatch you refer to
 No &? On the 21st the following in
 structions were written at Key West
 for Commodore Schley and sent at ]
 a. m. to the Marblehead to be deliv-
 cred with all dispatches: Spanish
 squadron probably at Santiago de
 Cuba. four ships and three torpedo
 boat destroyers. If you are satisfied
 they are not at Cienfuegos, proceed
 with all dispatch, but cautiously, to
 Santiago de Cuba. etc. Is that the
 dispatch that was sent to Commodore
 Schley after the doubt was removed af-