The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-10-25

mainly to the dispatches received and
sent by Admiral Chen COmmOdOrel
Schley. While this line Of investiga-
ton was being exploited Rayner,
speaking for Admiral Schlcy, said that
the admiral was willing to admit that
he had received the Dear Schley' let
ter on the Dupont, which arrived at
CienfuegOs on May %, but he added
that no duplicate of this dispatch had
ever been received by Admiral Schley.
Two Copies of Message No. 8.
He said also that the admiral admit
ted the receipt of two copies of No. s
admiral SIMPSONS dispatcD, saying
that the Spanish fleet was probably
at Santiago, and telling Commodore
Schley "if satisfied that it 1.-THE Span
ish tleet] is not at Cienfuegos" to pro-
coed with all dispatch to Santiago, one
Of these being received by the Hawk
May % and the other by the Marble
head May "a. During the direct exam
nation Rayner asked the witness rel
ative to the bearing of Commodore
Schley, in action and elsewhere. and
the witness replied that it was always
cool and brave. He also said that
when the attack was made on the
OOIOh SllC w as ouDDOOCu w NC yAAS
near the entrance to the harbor, when
In reality she was about mile in
side.
Made O Mistake i'm 1ndorsing.
Hanna interrogated the witness re-
garding the receipt of the Dear
Schley' letter, ard witness admitted
that he had Endorsed it first as having
been received May "A. when it should
have been May %, and had been so
Endorsed later with a pencil over the
Endorsement that was incorrect. 10
a remark by Hanna, implying that the
witness Endorsements were not to be
depended upon, he said that generally
they could be, but that he was not in
fallible
That McCalla Memorandum.
Hanna put in as testimony dis
patches Nos 3 and 6, both from Adj
miral Schley. directing a strict block
ade at Cienfuegos. and the latter en-
closing the McCalla memorandum.
The witness was questioned concern.
ing the receipt Of more than one copy
of the McCalla memoranda, but he
maintained that he remembered only
one copy. at the same time admitting
the possibility of the receipt of an
Otner copy.
THE DEPARTURE FROM CIENFUEGOs
SchIey Left Twelve Hours Before He II d
In :ended To.
At Hanna's instance Wells repeated
his testimony concerning the departure
of the flying squadron from Cienfuegos
to Santiago. He said the commodore
nod ,,,o1o No c,,ocioI cnDoDorDi 40 tiOO r.
him that he meant to take his immedi
ate departure for Santiago, but that he
had gotten the impression from letters
and dispatches written then by Com
modore Schley that it was his purpose
to leave the night they did. Hanna
then called attention to two letters
from the commodore saying that he
would not leave Cienfuegos until the
next day The witness said he did not
recall writing these letters, but thought
he had probably done so. He also
thought that there probably were Other
dispatches leading to his Inference that
the squadron was to leave that night
There must have been something
else" he said, because we did leave
that night instead of the next day"
dlSO 1A1SutSAuh
Wells about the war bulletin received
from the Adula while the flying squad
ron lay off Cienfuegos, saying tina
while Cervera's fleet had entered Santi
ago it had left there later. He sale
that the document was in the shape
of a small hand-bill, and that evidentl!
it had been issued by some newspaper
in that vicinity"
Hanna questioned the witness abou
the bombardment of the Colon on Ma.
81. He asked: what was the pur
pose of Commodore Schley in regart
to the Colon on May 31?'
The witness replied: His idea wa
to go in and fire on her with the large
guns, hoping to get a shot into her a
that range TO disable her, perhaps. TIL
range was 1000 or 1900 yards. Tha
was the distance from the Moro. TIL
Colon appeared to be close to the en-
trance. Her log, however, showed he
TO be mile or 1000 yards inside til