The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-11-07
Capt. T. s. Borden, of the Marine
Corps, the Last Witness in
Behalf of Adm. Schley.
REBUTTAL EVIDENCE WAS INTRODUCED.
Capt. Sigsbee Testified Concerning In.
terview With Commodore Schley
on Board the BrooklyR.
Capt. Chadwick said That the Free
cautionary Dispatches From the
Navy Department. Had Not
been Given to scllcy.

Washington. Oct. 2,.-The eross-ex.
animation of Adm. Schley began Mon.
day before the court of inquiry and
hardly more than a third of the
ground was covered when the cour,
adjourned at O'Clock. After Adm
echiey concludes Tuesday two other
witnesses will he called in his behalf
Adm. Barker and Capt. Thomas Bor.
den. The latter was an officer of the
marine corps aboard the Brooklyn
The judge advocate then will call his
witnesses in rebuttal, of whom there
are understood to be more than Is
aud it is probable that Adm. Schley's
counsel will call witnesses in sub.
rebuttal.
Adm. Schley concluded his direct
examination, which continued only
about ten minutes after the court
convened Monday morning, with a
statement to the effect Of the fire OF
the respective fleets at Santiago
showing that 36 per cont. of the hits
suffered by the enemy we're scored
by the Brooklyn's 5-inch guns, while
his ship received 70 per cent. of the
hits from the Spanish ships.
Washington, Oct. 30.---The cross
examination of Adm. Schley was con-
tinued throughout the session OF the
court of inquiry Tuesday Practical
ly the whole day was consumed IN
questioning the admiral about the
cruise from Cienfuegos to Santiago
and the motives and influences that
governed him in turning back after
his squadron had arrived in the vi
entity of the latter port. This latter
branch of the cross-CNam, nation had
not been concluded when the court
adjourned. The judge advocate, in
conducting the cross-examination.
used carefully prepared typewrittcn
list of questions. They called for
comparison of statements Adm. Sch v
has made either in his direct testi-
mony, in his communication to the
senate. or in his DISPATCHES to Adm.
Sampson or the navy department.
with the testimony of witpesse., who
have preceded him, and the logs and
signal books of the other vessels of
the feet.
Throughout the strain to which
the witness naturally was Sub cted
while under examination, the admiral
retained his customary composure.
Only once or twice did he display mi
patience or weariness. At one point,
when asked question, he replie,
that hn had ham al tln
question Monday, at the same time
telling what his reply had been then.
On another occasion. when he was
being searchingly intcrrogated as to
his distances from shore at Cicnfue-
gos as to whether the distances were
a matter Of record, he responded
rather tartly: "Oh. No. 1 did not
know they ever would be come u mat
ter of such great Importance, or
should have plotted them and made
a memorandum, as I should of mn.ny
other things"
The main points to which the cross.
examination was directed Tuesday
were the ability of the ships to coal
on Cienfuegos and the reasons for
what Is known as the "retrogrxde
movement"
The latter point was dwelt upon
with much emphasis and detail, and
had not been disposed of fully when
the court adjourned. The admired
gave three reasons for turning back;
Arst, the statement of Capt. Sigsbee
who commanded the scout ship st.
Paul, that the enemy was not in San.
tiago; second, the opinion of Nunez
the pilot, that the entrance was too
narrow and shallow for the Spanish
ships to enter, and third. the am
biguity Of the departments telegram.
In the course of the cross-exami.
nation the admiral said he regarded
the departments dispatch rather as
. suggestion than as an explicit or
der, suggestion which he carried out
after the sea had abated and the coal
supply of the ships had been replen-
ished.
Washington, Oct. 31.--The long or
deal TO which Adm. Schley has been
subjected since Monday morning end.
ed Wednesday afternoon when his
cross-examination was concluded and
he was allowed to leave the witness
stand. When the judge advocate fin.
ished the cross-examination shortly
after o'clock the court propounded
to the admiral "a questions prepared
by the members of the court. These
questions touched many points of the
campaign of the flying squadron, but
mainly centered about the difficulties
encountered in coaling and the rea.
sons for the retroGrade movement
Not one of them related to the battle
of Santiago. The Judge advocates
cross-examination Wednesday GOV.
cred the retrograde movement, the
reconnaissance of May 81, the loor
of the Brooklyn, and the alleged col.
loquy with Lieut.. Hodgson about the
Texas.
One of the most interesting fea.
lures of the day was the develop
ment of the fact that the report OF
the battle written by Adm. Schley
July 9, 1895, was not the Original
report. The original report never
has been published, and in accord
ance with q previous decision the
court Wednesday declined II to &c
into the records. a
Adm. schlsy WAS sllowed 10 explain
however. that Adm. Sampson declined
to receive the first report because
II did not mention the presence OF
the New York. II felt that the vic.
tory at that time" sajd Adm. echley