The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-01
THE SCHLEY INQUIRY
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE TEST
MoNY BEFORE THE COURT.
Admiral schIey a Witness In Hia
own BehaIf-He Maintained an Eff
fective Blockade and Did All this
Coa1ing That Was Possible.

On Friday Admiral Schley described
the battle of Santiago.
Judge Advocate Lemly cross exam
ined the admiral Monday and sought
to make him admit that he had beer
guilty of disobedience of orders.
The admiral met every challenge
with ready answer. stating that il
all instances excepting one he had act
ed honestly, as he interpreted the rules
of the navy department. In that single
instance he acted according to his dis,
erection.
Admiral Schley was vigorous in
speech in defending his course in the
Cuban campaign before the naval court
Tuesday.
The admiral said he kept a clost
watch at day and at night while
awake while off Cienfuegos. He said
he had seen no auxiliary cruiser OF
gunboat near the entrance to the har-
Dor, as testified to by Lieutenant Grif.
fin.
Had Cervera's feet appeared dur
luR luc lll&nlS YOU WGlC aL NJlChA 0OSsOSg
either coming out or coming in from
seward what, under your instruc-
lions, would your feet have doneT'
"Knocked them out" Ia stir in the
court
what were your Instructions"
ITO follow the DEMONSTRATIONS
given at Hampton Roads,"
JoJ IryC No ,toiv I " thof A n
miral Sampson had thought that when
Commodore Schley left Cienfuegos the
enemy would leave Santiago, the admi
raj replied
"Of course if l had gone to the east
ward and exposed the westward there
might have been serious consequences.
He again spoke of the dispatch of the
department indicating that the Spanish
fleet was still at Santiago as ambigu-
GUS and said that the information that
there were Cubans five or six miles
west of Santiago was erroneous, for the
Cuban pilot Nunez had informed hin
to the contrary. He claimed that the
dispatch also was ambiguous in the
matter of coaling the Harvard from
the Merrimac.
The cross examination Of Admiral
Schley was finished Wednesday after
noon after the lawyers had INDUCED in
a verbal bout over the admission of
war report.
The cross examination on the battle
of Santiago began with question az
to what the first movement of the
Brooklyn's helm was after the enemy's
ships were sighted coming out.
1--WE were heading west by north, ;"
the admiral replied. ''The first helm
was to port"
Captain Cook gave the order for the
turn?"
Eyes"
'You regard that turn as very impor.
tant do you not?"
II think it was the movement that
decided the events of that day.
"Did the Brooklyn stand in and at
tempt to sink the Spanish feet in the
channel?"
Il started in at first to help the othel
vessels and to have them help me- ]
felt if we could stop the Spaniards the
battleships could go in and sink them
| never had any idea that they would
get away"
"Now," said Captain Lemly, "therc
appear to be three reasons why you
made the turn. Why did you make
that turn?'
"As | already stated in my direct ties
timony, there is another much more
important reason which you have moi
asked, and that was that the ship
might continue in action and beat the
enemy as we did. That was the con
trolling one of all"
Captain IT, s. Borden was the first
witness Thursday and the last for Ad
miral Schley. Captain Borden is an Off
Ger in the marine corps and served OF
the Brooklyn during the Cuban cam
paign. His testimony was therefor,
largely corroborative of the evidenc,
which has heretofore been given BY
others who were on the Brooklyn.
did you see the commodore durins
the battle of July 3?' he was asked.
Eyes"
What was his bearing?'
Everything that could be expected
Of an officer"
Captain Sigsbee was then recalled
and made the following additions t.
and corrections of his former testi
mony:
II have carefully since my last testi
mony gone over all Of my official docu
ments, all of my private letters and the
records of the st. Paul. have no cor
rection to make in the testimony / theI
gave so far as it was given, excepting
that l said could not recollect whether
there were one or two assemblages OF
commanding officers aboard ship Oh
Santiago before the arrival of the fiyink
squadron there on the 26th and that il
there were two visits one must have
been on board the Yale.
my log shows there were two assem-
blages, both on board the Harvard, and
that l went on the second visit with the
captain of the Yale, and from that l
had come to the conclusion that the
second visit was on board the Yale.
That is the only correction / desire to
make.
II desire to state that l informed
Commodore Schley ON the occasion Of
my visit to him on the Goth, first, that
thought that the st. Paul had been
chased by torpedo boat on the night
of her arrival or the subsequent night;