Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-27

the whereabouts OF the Spanish SQUAD
ron r.
Il did not
'Ss; Iluet. Wood, who commanded the dis
s1atch boat Dupont during the war, con-
Z sainued his testimony, begun, yesterday.
4 Witness said while of Cienfuegos he
3 had been on picket duty two miles from
shore on the night OF May %, and had
been instructed to signal the squadron
/, with two red lights In case the enemy's
Z xorpedo boate came out of the harbor.
Rsyner read from the testimony of
Capt. HARDER, of the Texas. saying
4 there had been no picket vessels within
4 the lire OF the feet off Cienfuegos.
Witness said the statement was
Lemley said Harder had testified there
were no pickets, $50 far as he could re.
scali. = to which Rayner responded. 1--WE
II are not impeaching Harber's veracity.
We are impeaching his recollection, not
1ais Integrity 2
Rayner: Harber has stated there
were no picket boats at Cienfuegos. He
3 N1a wrong. avs he not t?y
He was. replied the witness. ''As I
I have esen since, the commander-in-
tehtef also reported, the Dupon was not
s there. have written the department
h that was there. Other people forgot
8 bout II, too
You are trying now to justify Har-
3 ber's wlnt OF recollection by stating the
commander-in-chief wrote letter there
were no picket boats there"
'SH5 4 He did not mention their presence
and I corrected 1t =
no you recollect any statement made
IL by the commander-in-c chief when he had
sa picket boat with the picket line that
{ he had arranged d signal from the pick
& et boat to the fiagshhp?'
He did not mention any, and have
s . letter on file In the department call
sg5ng attention to the omission in that re-.
1 port.
VI II call your attention to the report OF
! the commander-in-chief in which he
states the line OF blockade, etc. I wish
10 bring It out that the Dupont was in
side the line and that report was made
5 20 the department. stil stand On the
point that he is not bringing out where
the torpedo boat was.''
You are perfectly right about that,
but you have not asked In reference to
any criticism you may have upon the
i 0lReport OF the cornmander-in-chief.
The question is this: Harber has
u #dednitely stated there was no picket
!; Mat inside the line at Cienfuegos. You
4 3 say there was and the Dupont was one
see those boats"
n was inside the line. inside thu Cas-
q sfine.'''
BY the court: "Could you see the Tex
n from the Dupont during the nights
4 ct May 22 and 2s?"
Jo.,s'' =
Nr. Hanna asked what steps had been
taken while the flying squadron was
a:ofs CieIfuegos to ascertain If the Span
! III neet was inside the harbor.
None that / know OF.
sSEs sssNas there any effort. to destroy the
II shore batteries there?"
None, he said.
.s Lieutenant Wood was then dismissed.
Mr.. Hanna then said:
There has been introduced before the
court the question of correctness or
4 identity OF certain very important dis
patch sent by the Harvard. May ~,
from of Santiago by the commanding
Il officer of the flying squadron. 1t ap-
pears that in process Of translation
from the commander-in-chieft to the de-
Z partment some changes in the language
of that dispatch occurred. do nut de-
3 sire to Interrupt the proceedings by any
& discussion OF that point but make the
+ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT that we intend to enter
& into that matter very carefully and
II as the court may desire be-
fore we leave 1t.
lieut.. John Hood. who during the
'S'sy Il 4 var commanded the Hawk, was wit
ness. He said that on May % ne had
delivered dispatches from Sampson to
echIey. when the latter was off Cienfue-
xos. He related that he had been called
aboard the New York-Admiral Samp-
& sons flagship -on May q. when the OIL
n cars we're on board preparing dispatches
Mr.. Rayner objected to the introduc-
& tfon Of conversation or verbal orders
saying the orders would speak for them.
selves and must necessarily suppose any
stnstructions. The question was argued
At some length by Rayner and Lemley
The court retired to consider the objec-
zion, remaining out longer than on an,
previous occasion. Dewey read thu
courts decision as follows: The court
eustaIns the objection Of counsel as fal
as Il relates to conversations that tool
place OF, board the New York. but this
lpling does not spply to any verbal or