Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-11-09
MONDAY.
Testimony Practically All In In SchIey
Inquiry.


Inquiry.
Washington, Nov. 3.-At the opening
Of the Schley court OF inquiry Friday
Lemly announced that counsel had
agreed on the order of speeches In
closing the case. Hanna Is to open for
the department. He will be followed
by Parker and Rayner for Schley.
Lemly will close for the department.
Dewey announced the arrangement was
satisfactory to the court.
Proceedings began with the under.
standing that, with the exception OF
some witnesses who Will be called to
correct testimony Monday, the last tes-
timony would be taken before adjourn
ment today. Only two witnesses were
on the list today, both summoned by
the department. They were Lieuten-
ant John Hood, who commanded the
dispatch boat Hawk, and Sylvester
Scovel, newspaper correspondent.
Scovel saaid hat while IN the press
boat Somers N. Smith, as newspaper
correspondent, May u or rs, IL came
up with the st. Paul, Of which Slgsbee
was i'm command, off shore at Santiago.
There was a conversation with Sigs-
bee through the megaphone. lie him
self had used the megaphone In con-
Quoting the interview. Witness said
the Smith was about rs or 100 feet from
the st. Paul during the conversation.
"Give US, as nearly as you can, the
words OF the conversation" said
Lemly.
1--WE had beer sent to find Schley. and
the first question was. Where's
Schley? and the answer from Sigsbee
was, You'll find him IN the Yucatan
passage And then, inasmuch as our
boat was very slow, ] asked him to
advise me whether he thought we
could catch Schley IL we followed him.
He said, Yes
THE second question was, Where's
Ceryera?' n In answer to that Sigs-
bee did not speak for a moment. He
consulted with somebody on the bridge
OF the ship, then answered: i am not
sure. but we caught an English collier
trying to sneak into the harbor this
morning. That was all the CONVERSE
ton / remember to have had with Sigs-
bee personally. Other men on the boat
had some conversation with him"
Did Sigsbee during the conversation
inform you the Spanish squadron was
not in S~antiago?"
HE did not tell us the Spaniards
were not i'm there"
On cross examination Scovel said he
had been at the megaphone part Of the
time. He could not say whether 9TH
ers on board the press boat had talked
with Sigsbee.
Then" asked Rayner, ARE you pre-
pared to say on your oath that no one
In your boat asked Sigsbee whether
Cervera vas not in the harbor at SAN
tiago?"
1T is possible that the conversation
might have taken place on the part OF
one else, but as the Smith was a
small boat, and rs the conversation
must necessarily be In n loud tone OF
voice, l think / would have heard II IL
there had been any,"
Are you then prepared to say hat
the testimony OF Mr.. Hare, in which he
said Sigsbee had said the Spanish were
not at Santiago, is false"
mo, j am not prepared to say his
is false, and that no such
conversation took place; but / can
swear nothing OF the kind was said
while l was conducting the CONVERSE
tion, and l conducted the principal part
Of It,"
Scovel was then excused, and a num-
Of witnesses of yesterday were
called for the purpose OF making cor
rections In testimony. While Captain
Eaton, OF the Resolute, was on the
stand, Lemley asked him.
which way was the Brooklyn head
ing when you saw her tunnels appear
out OF the smoke, TO the southwark, as
you stated yesterday
Witness replied: About southwest,
rs l saw her nearly broadside on"
He also said when he saw the Brook
Ign making her turn with
tive rapidity," the turn had been near
~ completed.
Captain Chadwick, while under re-
call, said there had been a practical abb
rogatlon by the navy department OF
precautionary orders concerning the
bombardment Of the Spanish shore bat
Lerles I'm order to permit the lombard
Of San Juan, Porto Rico.
Lieutenant John Hood, who COM
the Hawk during the Spanish
var, was questioned on the point made
~ Schley hat the commanding officer
# the Dolphin had filed with the navy
a memorandum, In which
he said, speaking Of Hoods return from
lis mission to Schley, while the latter
o: Cienfuegos: Hood says a good
officers DO not believe the Span
are at Cienfuego at all, but they
only surmise."
Hanna: Did you make report to the
commanding officer OF the Dolphin
which would warrant the use Of the
language embodied in the memoran-
Il did make such a report; one war
anting stronger language than that"
Hood was then excused.
Lemley stated that he had one more
witness whom he desired TO call on
ionday, owing to the fact that he was
i'll TO appear today.
Rayner said he would have no more
illnesses except possibly the admiral
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