The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-02
p.ar-Admiral Schley Puts in His
Fifth Day as a Witness at
the Court of inquiry.
MICH OLD STRAW WAS THRESHED OVER.
Gaming In to the Battle of July 3,
,he Judge Advocate Seemed De-
.,rous of Establishing That the
victory Had 10 Been Won Ac-
.ording to Prcconceived Plans.

oniry Wednesday, Admiral Schley be-
ron the fifth day of his testimony
and the third day of his cross-exam-
nation. Judge Lemly still had "A long
list of typewriter questions before
him. and the different members of
the court have been industriously
nreparing questions to be presented
20 the admiral for his consideration
when his examination by counsel is
concluded. The testimony began
where it left off Tuesday, taking up
different phases of the blockade of
Santiago, and passing from that
question into the reconnaissance of
Nav 81, when the Spanish cruiser
Cristobal Colon was b~ombarded. The
hattie of July 8 was left for the last
subject to be considered, preceding it
with one or two incidental questions
about the circumstances of the even
ing of July 2.
On July 2, when the suspicious
movements were seer in the horbor of
Santiago. the witness said, he talked
with Capt. Cook of the advisability
of coupling up the engines. 1t was
decided not to do so. He supposed
tbe snip was always ready for u sor-
tie. ADMIRAL Schley's attention was
called to Capt. Cooks testimony that
on the night of July 2 he turned in
with no intimation that the fleet
would come out. The witness sail
that Capt. Cooks statement was not
in any sense consistent with his. He
had no intimation that the fleet
would come out.
The cross-eXamination of Admiral
Schley on the battle of Santiago be-
gan with a question as to what the
first movement of the Brooklyn's
helm was after the enemy's ships
were sighted coming out.
I'VE were heading west by north"
he replied. 1.-THE first helm was to
port"
Capt. Cook gave the order for the
turn"
"Yes."
"You regard that turn as very i'm
portant, do you not?'
II think it was the movement tina:
decided the events of hat day" The
admiral said in response to questions
that be had not mentioned the loop
In his report of the battle. 1t was an
Incident of the battle which he had
no idea ever would come into contro-
versy. Capt. Cook had given the or
der without orders from him except
under his general instructions to close
In and keep somewhere about 1000
yards away outside of the %broadside
torpedo range. When the time came
for the urn Capt. Cooks conception
Of the movement conceded with his
own, Although Capt. Cook gave the
order, he would have done so in a
moment had the captain of the Brook
Ign failed to do so.
DO you assume full responsibility
for the turn?"
absolutely. If / did not give the
order approved it," replied the adj
miral.
Asked where he had, heretofore, be-
fore the beginning of this inquiry,
mentioned that he had during the bat
tie given the signal Follow the flag
Admiral Schley replied: 81 think l
nave kept my mouth pretty close on
all these subjects, and do not recall
speaking of this incident. / distinct
i! recollect giving the signal and that
IL was flying for 20 minutes"
Did the Brooklyn stand in and at
tempt to sink the Spanish fleet in the
~channel?"
l started in at first to help the
o'her vessels and to have them help
me felt if we could stop the Span
ards the battleships could go in and
SINK them. 1 never had any idea that
they would get away"
continuing, he said, in reply to
questions, he estimated that the
brooklyn had gone in to within from
d mile to a mile and a half of the
mouth OF the harbor, and was within
iange OF the shore batteries. He
thought that for from IA to 20 min
u.es the flag had been within a range
o. less than 1000 yards from the
spanish ships. "They looked very
Close he said.
when the Spanish ships succeeded
~ getting out of the harbor without
oeihg sunk, in accordance with orders,
"hat alternative was there but to
chase them?"
there was no alternatives; no
o'her course open, but all depended
On the character of the chase.
whether it was made in the proper
way and was effective was one thing,
while a poor-conducted and inef-
iective blockade would have been an
other thing"
lhe admiral said in reply to ques-
uons that while several of the yes
sels had failed to join in the chase,
ea'lng the work, after the sinking
'he Teresa and the Oquendo to
'ne brooklyn, and the Oregon, this
"as because they could not follow al
"o pace set by the Spaniard."
Al this point Capt. Lemly intro
tueed the following paragraph from
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