The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-10-17
NEWS in GENERAL
scnLEY COURT OF INQUIRY.

yesterday Judge Advocate Lemly in
troduced Lieutenant j. III. Holden,
formerly watch officer on the Scor-
pion, as witness. Lieutenant Hol.!-
en- signed the entry in the Scorpions
log, giving the particulars of the re-
ceipt of a message for Commodore
Schley from the Eagle, which that
vessel had brought from Captain Nc
Gala on May 10, 1898, when the fly
ing squadron, then bound for Glen
| fuegos, fell in with Captain McCalla's
subsquadron, which had just left that
port. The government had sought to
show that by this message Commo-
dore Schley had been notified that
the Spanish fleet was not in the har-
Dor at Cienfuegos, and Lieutenant
| Commander Switzerland of the Eagle
had testified that he had megaphoned
to the Scorpion that there were only
a torpedo boat and several cannon
1eros in that harbor. Captain Lemly
| told the court that the log
of the Scorpion did not show the re-
celpt OF the message in this form and
that he was prepared to admit that
that message did not carry the evil
dence to Commodore Schley.
Other witnesses of the day were
Lieutenant Commander w. III.
| Schuetze, who served on the Iowa,
and Lieutenant A. w. Grant, who was
on the Massachusetts, who testified
concerning the general campaign of
the flying squadron. Lieutenant Ed
ward Il. Leiper concluded his testi-
mony begun Wednesday.
Washington, Oct. l2.-Capt. T. r.
Chadwick, who was in command of
Admiral SIMPSONS flagship, the New
York, and who also was chief of the
admiral's staff during the war with
Spain, testified before the Schley
naval court for a short time yester-
day afternoon. He was the last
witness called, and when the court
adjourned was still under cross-ex-
animation by Mr.. Rayner, who stated
that he had only few more ques-
tions to ask him. There was consid-
cradle interest in Captain Chad
wick's testimony because of his close
relationship of the COMMANDMENTS
chief of the North Atlantic SQUAD
| ron.
Captain Chadwick's testimony re.
lated very largely to dispatches sent
by Admiral Sampson to Commodore
Schley while the latter lay off Cien-
fuegos, in May, 1898, and to the code
of signals agreed upon by Captain
McCalla of the Marblehead and the
Cuban forces operating near Glen
fuegos. He said this code had not
been sent to Commodore Schley by
dispatch because Captain McCalla ha,,
expected to join the commodore i'm
mediately and communicate the code
to him. He also told of being pres
ent at an interview between Admiral
Sampson and Commodore SchIey. in
which the latter had expressed his
intention to be loyal to the com
mander-in- chief.
| He related in detail the change of
opinion concerning the whereabouts
of Cervera's fleet by Admiral Samn-
son on May 81, between the sending
of the two dispatches of that date
by Admiral Sampson to Commodore
| Schley, one. of which was dated at
Key West and the other at Havan.
Captain Chadwick said he had not
approved Admiral SIMPSONS dispatch
OF May rs, congratulating Commodore
| Schley on his accomplishments tn
that date.
| ~ s WIZ Oc1. Io.-1 eSterday in
ne schley court of inquiry, Judge
Aayocate Lemly concluded presenta-
ton of testimony for the governments
and the first of Admiral Schley's Wit
nesses was Introduced. CAPTAIN
Francis A. Cook, who commanded
Admiral (then commodore) Schley's
hagship, the Brooklyn, during the
Santiago campaign, and who acted.
though unofficially, in the capacity
OF chief of staff for the commodo ore,
was on the witness stand the greater.
part of the day. He was followed
BY Lieutenant Commander William
+. Pullman, who was senior watch
eticer on the New Orleans during the
spanish war, and former Lieutenant
Joseph Beale, who as an officer on
the Harvard, translated the cipher
dispatches between Commodore
schley and the navy department. car
ried by that vessel. Among these
! disptches was that sent by Commo-
dore Schley May %, expressing his
regret at not being able to obey
the orders of the department. and
explaining the reason why he could
not do so. There are some verbal
/ discrepancies between the original
draft of the dispatch and the official
print OF 1T, and these Mr.. Beale ex-
pinned.
Lieutenant Beale was the last of
! the government witnesses, although
Captain Lemly explained that he
would reserve the right to call 9th
ers if occasion should demand that
he do so. He had no sooner retired
than the first witness for Admiral
schley was called. This proved to
be the Cuban pilot, Edwardo Nunez,
who told Schley on May 26. 1898,
that he did not believe the Spanish
4 fleet under Cervera was in the har-
Dor at Santiago.
Students Demand Allowance.
Constantinople, Oct. 14.-The Otto
man students in Paris, who are gen
orally secret agents of the Turkish
government, have telegraphed to the
sulAan demanding the immediate pay
ment of their allowances. Otherwise
they threaten to launch an agitation
which will endanger the throne.
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