The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-19
|.ENID OF INQUIRY
NOW IN SIGHT
schleys Side May be
Finished Next Week.
ADJOURNMENT TAKEN
At Request Of Rayner Court Will Not
Meet To-Day.
MANY WITNESSES WERE HEARD.
Eight in All Went on the Stand Yesterday
but One Had Not Fiaisted His festi-
n1ony at End OF the Day-Ali
Testify to Schley's
Bravery and Com
MANY WITNESSES WERE. HEARD.
fBy Associated Press.0

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-Just before
tho schlev Court Of Inquiry adjourned
to-day Attorney Rayner, counsel LOT ao-
| miral Schley, informed the court that he
hoped to able to conclude the presenta-
tion of testimony by the applicant by the
close of next week. He added that he
Tins far had not had opportunity to con-
sr1t with witnesses who are still to be
heard. He therefore. asked that an ad-
iournment be taken from to-day until
Monday.
Speaking fer the court, Admiaal Dewey
said he was most happy to grant the re-
quest. Accordingly, the court adJorrhed
until II o'clock Monday.
The list of witnesses examined to-day
included eight l:amcs, but the intel rns;a- :
tion of the last of The witnesses called
had not been concluded "hei the ia
| came to a. close This last witness was
Liertenant B. w. Wells. Jr., who serVes.
during the war with Spain as Admiral
SchIey's flag lieutenant or private sectc-
tary.
Commander Nicholson told the story Of
the battle of July 81 as he saw 1t IRON
the deck of .he Oregon. He said that the
movements Lie Cie5oll Alsho iiSS ''N>''-
controlled by signals from the Brook n,
and he expressed the opinion that the
Oregon was nearer to the Color than the
Brooklyn Was.
From the lire Of the examination relat-
ing to the fight CT July Sd already pur-
sued it is evident thar it is the Intention
of Mr.. Rayner to nave Lieutenant Wells
give a complete history of Admiral
Schley's actions during the Spanish War.
When the court adjourned he had reached
the period of the battle Of July 3d. hav-
ing gone quite minute.y inio other inct-
dents of the camLaign up t, that time.
including the receipt OF dispatches from
Admiral Sampson.
The list OF witnesses called for to-day
included Lieutenant-Command Reginald
f. Nicholson, who was navigator of the
Oregon during tie campaign of 1885; DR.
Charles M. DeVlin, past assistant sur
geon; Captain J. l.. Ifannum, retired, who
was chief engineer of the Brooklyn dur
ing the war with Spain; Lieutenant F.
Carter, Ensign w. r. Cronan, Carpenter
j. H. Warford, all of whom were ON the
Brooklyn; Mr.. Hunley, who was chief ma
ctinist on the Texas, and Lieutenant 3.
w. Wells, Jr., who was Admiral Schley'
flag lieutenant. It is expected that Cap
tain Clark, of the Oregon, will be among
the witnesses to be heard early next
week.
THE CONVERSATION.
While Ensign Marble was on the stand
for the purpose of correcting his former
testimony, he was further interrogatec
by Judge-Advocate Lemly concerning the
conversation between Captain Sigsbee, OF
the st. Paul, and CommpGore Schley
overheard by him (the witnessJ wher
Captain Sigsbee came aboard the Brook
lyn off Santiago May 26th
Captain Lenlly: MAY not Captain Sigs-
bee have said, I have been here about
a week, and have not seen anything O
them or words to that effect, meaning
the Spanish feet?"
mo, sir. as / remember it, he said
'They could not be here unless I knew
it,
''To whom were these remarks address
ed solely? Were they addressed to you at
all?''
mo, sir''
Under the circumstances, may you
not have failed to hear all that Cap
tain SigSbee sad?''
"After hearing the conversation, which
I have given, Captain Sigsbee and the
Commodore walked off. 50 I could not
hear what was said, and I went below
FROM THE OREGON.
Lieutenant-Co Commander Nicholson of
the Oregon, was then called and began
his recital of the story of the battle of
July 3rd which he had observed as navi-
gator of the Oregon. He was, he said,
on the deck of his vessel. and added
Occupying the position I did during
the day uf the engagement. necessarily
saw considerable of it. The incidents of
that day commenced about $3.50 or five
minutes before. when the first call to
quarters had been sounded Then the
Spanish ships were seen coming out of
the harbor, were seen, in fact, by prac-
ticaliy the whole crew at the same time.
..When the first ship started to go
around the cry went up: there they go!'
looked toward the harbor and saw the
first ship. Her bow was making a turn
into the last reach of the harbor on
her way out. She was followed in sue
cession by the others I went to my sta
tion, first on the bridge. then down to
the coming tower and saw that the
proper connections were made
AFTER THE ENEMY.
TN the meantime the signal had been
sounded to general quarters, and by this
time steam was coming, all the boilers
and blowers were going full tilt. and a
few minutes afterward Captain Clark
came up. Going slowly at first. the
speed increasing all the time, we turned
slid Will eti1d Stdi LEU
toward the enemy. They came out at
full speed, apparently much faster than
we were at this time. By the time we
were Strengthened out, well to the west
ward they We're all ahead of US. The
Iowa started In, she being to the west
ward of us. apparently got in closer to
the enemy than we Gid. because We
passed under her stern. a few minutes
after. that, on our course to the west
ward. we passed under the stern of the
Texas, apparently still IN the water. i
called Captain C1ark's dttention to this.
. course, firing commenced on both
sides at the time LIE first ship cleared the
mouth of the harbor We returned the
fire at lcnge range, probably three and
one half to four miles OH at tha point.
S5s5 LOOK OUT FOR COLLISION.
s u-han wa crossed .irGar tllea Texas