The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-01

moment the oreeon came through my lee and passed between me and the Tex.s and the three boats were punched
 How was the Iowa headed by the com passT'
 .'To the westward. heading for the en-
 On cross-examination by Mr. Raykor. Admiral Evans said he had left Key West with the Iowa for Cienfuegos on May 20. and that he knew before leaving sss sods with tbs sfs .surgehts on shore at Cienfuegos. as Cap tain Chadwick had giyen him this in
 .He came on board the Iowa." said the witness. to deliver dispatches to me be- fore we got under way. To my best knowledge and belief. he gave me written memorandum containing the se- made % SiIixent t' search nsa among my papers TsTs for this document, have failed to ind
 Mr. Raynor-Can you refresh you mem- 0ry as1Ss snSst hos, this There that the Iowa carried dispatches? E None whatever"
 :. When were those dispatches delivered to % GSmmodore schlsyT - ., past 12 o'clock and l o'clock on the af- ternoon of the 22nd."
 |, Did you read the memorandum about signals given to you by Captain Chad
 Certainly did, but not the dispatches to Commodore schley."
 MT. Raynor here exhibited to the wit. reports. spo s0 but % ASmirai Evans as said I shst neither of these was the document to which he had reference. That, he said. was the code of signals with the insur- gents
 Memorandum Was Lost.
 What became of that memorandum?', everywhere and tried to find it. Tn fact, l am not sure 1t was a memorandum"
 When did you search for this memo
 II searched within the last month for 1t, ever since the question has been raised in the newspapers about my not having given Commodore schley this informa-
 "Then. did you inform Commodore been arrangedr'
 ..'I did not. It never entered my mind that he did not know it. that Commodore schiey knew it." '''s
 He was the commanding officer of the
 From what sources did you suppose he
 T did not suppose anything about it. It never entered my head. If it had should have said, of course, that the command ing officer of 2 naval force would not expect one of his junior captains to give him information about his signals, It vas giyen to me as a piece of inforr.1a- ton which thought every captain in the fleet had. I never thought of commodore Schley in connection with 1t. If I had supposed for a moment that Commodore Schley did not have 1t l would have given It to him the first thing on my arrival there I did not intend to say that Com nodorA &rtiIav had thtQ signal nnda At this point Mr. Raynor produced Ad- miral Evans book "A Sailors Log and began to quote a passage from 1t on the % yocsts in interrupted r p with an objection, which was sustained by the court, Ad- miral Dewey remarking:
 T would rather you would get the Mir, Raynor then, while reading from the book, put the question: Have you eyer stated" Quoting from A Admiral .9 ysl those signals, as well as did. Otherwise should have informed him of their sig
 That Is absolutely fact" replied the / MT. Raynor questioned Admiral Evans at some length concerning the signals as displayed on the coast near Cienfuegos which the Admiral said the officer of the deck had told him had been on May p and 2. but the witness said he had had no conversation with Schley about these lights and had made no report to him of
 MT. Kaynor then asked Admiral Evans if he had seen the official chart showing the positions of the Brooklyn and other battleships on the day of the battle of piled that he had seen the chart, but that 1t was wrong.
 The Loop of the Brooklyn.
 Mr. Raynor: When did you first know about the turn of the Brooklyn, as you say. short distance from the Texas7''
 When l saw her cross the bow of the Texas"
 Do you recollect the conversation you had with Commodore schley the 9th of July, the second day after the battle, re- sssSing the loop of the srooklynr'a
 "You do not recoliect that Commodore Schley first told you on July 9th that 1t was the Brooklyn and not the Texas .orI ,I never imagined anything of the
 "Giye briefly the purport of your com yersation on that date with Commodore l"Briafiy. as reeollect the conyersation. he wag talking to a person named Gra- ham. He was sitting at his desk writ ing walked into his cabin to make q and said: Bobby. am just writing my report of the battle of the third of July
 "He said; I have told of you that you handled your ship with consummate Graham. Then Captain Cook came in and asked if I would toll him whether the position of certain Ships was correct, which came out first, etc.. that he had been e little confused In his mind. We talked few minutes and then went into Captain Cook cabin"
 Concerning the position of the Brooklyn and the Texas on the day of the battle, the witness said The Brooklyn was dangerously near the Texas. should say within one hundred yards of her"
 What was your position. just at that time, when she crossed the course of the Texas relative to the Brooklyn and the Texas '
 the Spanish fleet to intercept the Wis moreI to the northward than the Texas. The Texas was headed off more to the west. When l saw the Brooklyn the third time, she was across the bow of the Texas heading south.
 When did you See her next. if at all?"
 After the Opuendo went ashore my atte ntion was called to the Brooklyn by some one on the bridge, who remarked: The Brooklyn is knocked out Shs was then hotly engaged with her starboard battery, She was headed parallel with | the course of the Colon. should say"
 Admiral Evans then, In response to question from MT. Raynor, said he had | been called to the deck of the Iowa on | the evening of July g. by Lieutenant Hill, | who was the deck officer, and who had called his attention from the entrance to the harbor. The lieutenant said it was his opinion that the Spaniards were pre- pairing to come out: ,a,d but he LA Admiral ahd were merely shifting berths. as they had done on previous occasions. However, r the signal at that time had been prepared