Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-23


cour, OF inquiry is rapidly approaching
&c closing days. as was made evident
hy many circumstances today one OF
these was the removed from The COURT
room OF most Of the tables which were
nlaced there for the press. Compare
lively few Of these tables were ever
used and they have been taken away
In make room for the increased attend
ance expected during the last days OF
the inquiry.
FIFTEEN MORE WITNESSES.
AT the beginning Of today's proceed
lngs Attorney Raynor, chief counsel for
Admiral schley said that he would
not have more than ~ or 10 witnesses
TO examine and that the examination
of some Of these would require COM
paratlyely little time, The principal
Witnesses yet to come are Admiral
schley and Capt. Clarke. II is expect
ed that Admiral Schley's testimony VIII
cover at least day or two, the
length Of time depending upon the ex-
tent of the cress-eXaminatlon to which
he win be subjected. Capt. Clarke prob
ably will be the last witness before the
admiral Is heard but his statement, II
Is expected, will be comparatively
short
There was an unusually long list OF
witnesses OF former days present In
the court at todays session for the
purpose Of correcting their testimony.
The first OF the new witnesse called
was James II. Hare, who as a photo
grapher for an illustrated weekly news
paper witnessed and made photo
graphs Of the battle Of July 3. He
was followed by iir. William l.. Hill,
who was chief boatswain on the nag
ship Brooklyn during the Cuban cam
paign, and who had especial charge
OF the work Of coallng. other wit
nosses called for the day were Frank
lin r. Apologize. a gunner on the
Brooklyn Major Paul ste. Murphy,
who was In command of the marines
OF the flying squadron and whose head
quarters were ON the Brooklyn; Lieut..
Commander c. II. Harlow, who was
executive officer of the Vixen and who
wrote an account Of the battle on July
3 IN which he claimed alterations were
made before Il was officially published
Lieut.. y. W. Eberle, who hal charge
Of the forward lS-inch turret on the
Oregon Lieut.. a. A. Ackerman. who
was in charge OF the aft l3-lnch tur-
ret Of TIE Oregon, and Lieut. Rufus p.
johnson, who was signal officer on the
Oregon and aide to Capt. Clarke.
LIEUT.. SIMPSON CoRRECTs.
While Lieut.. Simpson was on the
stand for the purpose OF correcting his
testimony OF yesterday he stated in re-
ply 20 a question by Mr. Hanna that
he had first seen the Oregon coming up
during the chase of the Spanish ships
on July 8, when the Oquendo was dis
covered TO be on fire. Mr.. Hanna stat
ed that his object In bringing out this
information was 20 fix the time when
the Oregon came up.
GRAHAM MAKES ADDITIONS.
Mr.. G. +. Graham made an addition
70 his testimony OF yesterday concern
ing the interview between Commodore
Schley and Capt Slgsbee on May &C.
He said that beyond what he had al
ready reported Capt. Sigsbee as saying
he further said: "He had two pilots
aboard, and that those pilots said that
a fleet Of vessels of the size of the
Spanish squadron could not enter the
harbor at Santiago"
Mr. Graham also changed his reply
10 the question Of the court as to
whether he had heard a conversation
between Commodore schley and Lieut..
Commander HodgSon during the battle
OF July Q. Referring TO this Mr., Ora
ham said In answer 10 the question
OF the court said: No, sir, but It
seems 20 me that / should say that
there was great deal Of conversation
going on between three or four or
hcers and / answered NO because I
could not pick out from that CONVEX
sation the one between Lieut.. Com
mander Hodgson and Commodore
Schley.
LIEUT.. WELLS RECALLED.
Lieut.. Wells was among the former
witnesses called for correction OF tes-
tlmony. While he was on the stand
his attention was called to press
copy OF cipher dispatch dated May
"a. prepared for him by Admiral
schley. The copy was found in the
commodore's press copy book and
Lieut. Wells said he thought he had
prepared It. lie said. however. that
there was pencil note indicating that
the dispatch had never been sent He
was asked to translate the copy and
present II to the court later, Capt.
Lemly explaining that the dispatch in
dicated a conversation between the
witness and Commodore Schley.
JAMES II. HARE.
Mr.. James II. Hare was the first new
witness today He was press photog-
rapher during the Santiago campaign.
lie stated that he was on the press
boat Somers n. Smith on May 26 and
May n and they had met the ST. Paul.
did you have any megaphone COM
munlcati0ns between the SOmers II.
Smith and ST. Paul?" Mr. Raynor
asked
"Mesaphone and by mouth also"
State what Il was"
we asked the ST. Paul n there were
any lhlngs Of Ceryera's feet. Capt.
Sigsbte told as there We're not; that
Cervera's fleet was not inside Santi-
ago and that Schley had gone west"
rs there any particular incident that
impresses than on your memory"
Yes. sir. on Sifsbees assurances
that the feet was not In the harbor
We went back to Key West TO coal in
stead OF 10 Jamaica and the first news
we got was that Cervera's feet was
bottled up IN the hafbor."
on cr0ss-examinaiion Mr.. Hare said