The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-01

He was the commanding officer of
the squadron
From what sources did you sup
pose he got this fnformation?'
| u did not suppose anything about
! II. 1t never entered my head If it
had l should have said, of course, that
the commanding officer of a naval
| force would not expect one of his Jun
Tor captains to give him information
about his signals. It was given to
me as a piece of information which
1 thought every captain of the fleet
had I never thought of Commodore
Schley in connection with it If I had
! supposed for moment that Commo-
dore Schley did not have it I would
have given it to him the first thing on
my arrival there. I did not intend to
say that Commodore Schley had this
signal code
Evans Book Ruled Out.
At this point Mr.. Raynor produced
Admiral Evans book. "a Sailors Log, -
/ and began to quote a passage from it
| judge advocate interrupted with an OBJ
/ lection, which was sustained by the
court, Admiral Dewey remarking, L
| would rather you would get the state
ment from the witness here"
Mr.. Raynor. then, while reading from
| the book, put the question: Have you
ever stated Quoting from Admiral Ev-
| ans book) L of course took 1t for
granted that the commodore under
stood those signals as well as I did.
Otherwise I should have informed him
of their signihcance?'
THAT is absolutely a fact" replied
the witness.
Therefore you did take it for grant
ed that the commodore understood the
| signals?"
| "I did"
He could never have understood the
signal unless he knew something about
/ IL, could he2"
Il took 1t for granted he under
stood it."
well, you found out that he did not
understand 1t, did you not?"
| No"
Mr.. [Raynor questioned Admiral Ev-
ans at some length concerning the sig
/ nails as displayed on the coast near
/ Cienfuegos, which the admiral said the
officer of the deck had told him had
] been seen on May % and %, but the
| witness said that ne had had no con-
versation with Admiral Schley about
these lights and had made no report to
him Of their appearance or significance.
Positions Of Battleships.
Mr. Raynor then changed the base of
I his examination from Cienfuegos to
| Santiago, and began by asking Admiral
/ Evans if he had seen the official chart
4 showing the positions of the Brooklyn
and other battleships on the day of the
/ battle of Santiago. July 3. 1898 The
| admiral replied that he had seen the
/ chart, but that ii was wrong.
Mr.. Raynor-When did you first
know about the turn of the Brooklyn
as you say, a short distance from the
! Texas?
When 1 saw her cross the bow of the
Texas"
DO you recollect the conversation
you had with Commodore Schley the
5th of July, the second day after the
battle regarding the loop of the Brook
| lyn?''
NO. sir; I do not. do not remem-
Der mentioning the subject at all
You do not recoIlect that Commo-
dore Schley first told you on July 5
! that it was the Brooklyn and not the
Texas that made the turn?''
Il never imagined anything Of the
sort"
GIVE briefly the purport of your con-
versatiOn on that date with Commo-
dore Schley.''
Briefly. as 1 recollect the conversa-
! ton. he was talking Of a nerson named
/ Graham. He was sitting at his desk
/ writing. 1 walked into his cabin to
/ make a report. He ut his hand on
my shoulder and said Bobby, I am
/ just writing my report of the battle of
/ the 3rd Of July
/ SSAAOJ L A1AoCO WINS
He said: I have said of you that
/ you handled your ship with consum-
mate skill He then introduced me to
/ Mr.. Graham. Captain Cook came in
I and asked me if 1 would tell him
whether the position of certain Spanish
ships was correct, which came out first
/ etc; that he had been a little confused
/ in his mind. We talked a few minutes
and L then went into Captain Cooks
| cabin
You do not recoIlect the conversa-
ton, going over the particulars of the
/ turn the Brooklyn made and the re-
mark that Commodore Schley made at
that time about Captain Philip, when
you said you thought it was Captain
Philip of the Texas who made the
turn"
II never said that. Absolutely I
never said such a thing. because the
Texas was right under my eye all the
\ time. She did not turn at ALL
Concerning the position of the
Brooklyn and the Texas on the day of
the battle. the witness said: 1.-The
Brooklyn was dangerously near the
Texas. I should say within 100 yards
[ of her.
What was your position. just at that
/ time. when she crossed the course of
/ the Texas. relative to the Brooklyn and
Texas2''
The Iowa was hearing straight n for
I lut spanish meet 10 intercept the VIZ
/ caya at that time. She was heading
more to the northward than the Texas
I The Texas was headed off more to the
west. When I saw the Brooklyn the
third time she was across the bow of
! the Texas, heading south"
When did you see her next, II at
alp"
Brooklyn Holly Engaged.
After the Oquendo went a more my
attention was called to the Brooklyn by
someone on the bridge. who remarked
! The Brooklyn is knocked out She
was then hotly engaged with her star
board battery She was headed parallel
with the course of the Colon. I should
say"
Mr.. Raynor questioned the witness
again with reference to statements
made in his admiral EvansO book
asking him whether he had ever said
/ he felt reasonably sure that the Span
ish feet was in the harbor at Santiago
] The witness said that he had made
that statement. but that ii was con-
clusion based on the fact that the
iSpaniards were not at Cienfuegos: that
they had not gone westward. and that
from a military point of view. Santiago
was the place where they were most
apt to be.
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