Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-10-22

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hess. He told of the meeting OF the
flying squadron and the Marblehead
while the former was en- route to Glen
tuegos and the signals that had been
exchanged. Respecting the CORE
spondence while the flying squadron
was at Cienfuegos witness said the
letters, as received, were briefed,
stamped and fled.
Mr.. Hanna exhibited to witness
letter dated May 80, 1898, and written
by Commodore Schley which contain
ed a refe1ance to the dispatches that
had been brought by the Dupont and
sought by it to show that the No.
dispatch, known as the Dear Schley"
letter, was received on the 22d of May
and not on the 23d.
Witness said-"The conjunction of
this letter and the lead pencil endorse
ment on the back of the dispatches
would seem to indicate that the dis
patch might have been received on the
22d."
After the examination had proceed
ed along this line for some time Mr..
Rayner addressed the court as fol-
lows:
May it please the court, we admit
we got the No. Z dispatch by Dupont
(Which joined the flying squadron on
May 22) and we admit that we got No.
8 by the Hawk and the Marblehead.
Now the trouble is about the other No.
Z. Where did the duplicate of No.
go? We cannot admit we got it by the
Iowa, but we agree upon three prop
ositions. The Dupont carried No. 7
and the Marblehead No. 8. We admit
the receipt of this memorandum from
Captain McCalla by the Hawk, but
what we have not been able to find out
| and cannot admit is that the Iowa car
ried No. T."
Mr.. Rayner turned to Admiral
Schley and asked-"You admit that,
don't you admiral?"
Admiral Schley Certainly,
we admit that"
Did Not Remember No. 8.
In reply to questions witness said
| that he remembered absolutely moth
| ing whatever of the receipt of dispatch,
No. 8, from Admiral Sampson to Com
modore Schley, saying that the fleet
probably was at Santiago, except what
was revealed by the receiving stamp
endorsements. He said that on this
dispatch, as on the Dear Sctsey" let
ter, there had at first been an endorse
ment showing it's receipt on May "a
and subsequently another written over
the first, Indicating it's receipt on the
23d Of that month.
Mr.. Hanna then put in as testimony
dispatches Nos. and 6, both from Ad-
miral schley, directing a strict block
ade at Cienfuegos and the latter en-
closing the McCalla memorandum.
Witness was again questioned COZ
cerning the receipt of more than one
copy of the McCalLa memoranda, but
he maintained that he remembered
only one copy, at the same time ad-
mitting the possibility of the receipt
OF another copy.
Asked when he had first seen the
dispatch introduced by Captain Cot
ton, witness said he did not remember
to have ever seen it. This is the dis
patch sent to the Harvard, saying that
the SpaniaTds probably we're at San
tiago and the one which Admiral Cot
ton said he had delivered to Commo-
dore Schley, May 27. In this connec-
tion Mr.. Hanna said that he had not
been able to find the original of this
dispatch among Admiral Schley's pa
pers. He also remarked incidentally
that there were others of Admiral
Schley's papers missing.
Mr.. Hanna then questioned Lieuten-
ant Wells closely about Admiral
Schley's papers, but he repeated that
since he had boxed them up and turn
ed them over to Admiral Schley in
1898 he had not seen them until he
saw them recently at the navy depart
ment.
II saw them very much spread
about at the navy department since
have been here" he said.
Departure From Cienfuegos.
I At Mr.. Hanna's suggestion Leuten>
ant Wells repeated his testimony con-
cerning the departure of the flying
squadron from Cienfuegos to Santiago.
He said the commodore had made no
special communication to him that he
meant to take his immediate departure
for Santiago. but that he had gotten
the impression from letters and dis.
patches written by Commodore Schley
that it was his purpose to leave the
night they did. Mr.. Hanna then called
attention to two letters from the com
modore saying he would not leave
Cienfuegos till the next day. The wit,
! ness said he did not recall writing
these letters, but thought he had prob.
4 ably 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"
Mr.. Hanna also questioned Lieuten.
ant Wells about the war bulletin re.
I.eeived from the Adu1a while the flying
4 squadron lay off Cienfuegos, saying
that while Cervera's feet had entered
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