Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-01

tapt. SnRFteS IL. S1SSDee.
he read the time at which different signals
! were giver, At $50 he noted the enemy
was escaping and at 9:3S the first forward
| utes after the battle began he saw the
| Brooklyn.
| Q. By Mr.. Hanna): Where was she
when you first saw her? A. She was Oft
| the port bow.
! @. How far away? A. I would not like
| to make any exact estimate. She seem ed
very close going seaward.
@ Was she heading toward or away
| from the Texas? A About at right angles.
| Next note Geading from notebook) Not
| struck yet at $50. Stopped both engines
| hard starboard."
7 Saw the Brooklyn in Front
! The witness had no entry showing that
| Capt. Philip gave the order. The next en-
| try in the notebook stated: 1T was Brook
| lyn, close shave
| Q. By Mr.. Hanna: You say You do not
| care to estimate the distance between the
Texas and the Brooklyn? | do not ask you
| to do SO, but can't you say whether it was
| half a mile? A. l should think not. l do
not suppose it was quarter of mile.
The witness said that when the signal
| to stop was given he was not on the same
| side of the coming tower as Capt. Philip
out he at once went around the coming
| tower to where the latter was standing
Il heard Philips voice." said the wit
| ness. Then l went around the other side
| OF the coming tower and found why we
| stopped. He Capt. Philip waved his hand
and said: Look at that fellow going out
| to sea-
He said that Lieut.. Heilner was near
| Capt Philip when this order was given.
Some messenger may also have been there,
but he was not sure
Q. BY Admiral Dewey: Did you hear
Capt. Philip give any order to back? A.
! No. sir, do not know whether l did.
Q. You would have heard it had he given
nrla a I rI1i.r y1nE'
@. By Mr. Hanna: You were at Cienfue-
! gos during this campaign? A. l was on the
| Texas.
Q. Did you at any time make a trip in n
| boat away from the Texas while at Glen
| fuegos? A. Yes
| .. On what date? A. The 24th about
| noon.
The witness said that in a small rowboat
| on the date given he had gone about three
miles outside, where the Texas was lying.
Mr.. Hanna asked the witness in regard to
| the positions of the Iowa and Oregon at the
| time the Brooklyn passed the Texas but
| Mr. Rayner objected TO this question, say
| ing that it enough to establish the po-
| sition of the Brooklyn and that the Iowa
| and the Oregon did not affect Admiral
] Schley, and the objection was sustained by
| the court.
! Mr.. Rayner referred to an article written
| by the witness and published in a New York
! paper in relation to the incident of the
Brookiyn's loop, in order to show that that
article contained no reference to the Incl
| dent of backing the Texas.
Mr.. Hanna then asked the witness ques-
| ton to show why he did not make that
statement in the article written on the same
| day or the day after the battle.
| Mr.. Rayner objected to this question, but
/ the court approved 1t, and the witness re-
| piled:
| "The reason was that Captain Philip ask
| ed me to do so in so many words, and at
| the time / did not want to write it
myself. / thought it was not right to do
J Il, Of Ntsty, Il
| he had confidence that l would write moth
| ing that would reflect on any one in any
| way"
| O. By Mr.. Rayner: Captain Philip asked
| you to make it as nice for everybody as
| you could. How could you make it nice
| a BY saving nothing about 1t.
| Mr.. Rayner also questioned the witness in
| regard TO headlines over the article referred
! TO, these headlines indicating that the vic
! tory was Scnley's. The witness said that
! that was not in his report.
Capt. Sigsbee ON the Stand.
| Captain Charles d. Sigsbee, who was in
| command of the Maine when sunk In the
| harbor of Havana, and who was later COM
| mander of the cruiser st. Paul, went on
| the stand. He said that in obedience to Or
! ders from Captain Wise, who was his COM
manding officer, he had proceeded to the
vicinity of Santiago, arriving there on the
21st. He told of taking aboard the Cuban
j pilot NuneZ and said that he did not have
1 great confluence III tHil his
! instructions were to report to Commodore
/ Schley that the Spanish squadron probably
was in Santiago harbor. He fell in with
/ the flying squadron on the evening of May
| 26, the squadron then being twenty or
/ twenty-five miles south of Santiago. He
| had reported to Commodore Schley that he
knew nothing positively" about the Span
ish.
| He was then asked # he had expressed
/ his belief to Commodore Schley that Ger
veras feet was not in the harbor, as re-
ported later by Commodore Schley.
| A controversy arose over the admissibilfty
| of the question, and the court took a re-
| cess for luncheon before receiving the reply
/ of the witness.
| sigshee's Report to Schley.
At o'clock, when the court reassembled.
Capt. Lemly. the judge advocate, was pres
/ Continued on Eleventh Page.)