The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-01

peSI hHOWleQSe ana Del1eI, ne gave me
 a written memorandum containing the secret code, but notwithstanding I have
 made diligent search among my papers for this document, I have failed to find iit'
 MT. Rayner-"Can you refresh your memory about this memorandum?
 There is no doubt about one thing and that is that the Iowa carried dispatch es."
 None whatever" | When were these despatches deliv-
 cred to Commodore Schley?" l They were delivered between half
 past 12 and 1 o'clock on the afternoon of the 22d.'' | Did you read the memorandum
 about signals given to you by Captain | Chadwick"
 Certainly, I did. but not the dis patches to Commodore Schley." What became of the memorandum" asked MT. Rayner, "As I told you, lost it. I searched everywhere and tried to find it. In | fact, am not sure it was memo randum."
 At this point MT. Raynor produced AO11l1dl ENd1lS DOUh A DeliioA 9 iNcso' and began to quote a passage from it
 on the subject of the code of signals when the judge advocate interrupted
 with an objection which was sustained
 by the court, Admiral Dewey remark ing: T would rather you would get the statement from the witness" Mir Ray
 ner. then, while reading from the book, put the question: Have you ever stat ed,' (quoting from Admiral Evans book), q, of course, took it for grant ed that the commodore understood these signals as well as I did. Other wise, I would have informed him of their significance
 That is absolutely a fact" replied the witness
 Therefore, you did take it for grant ed that the commodore understood the slgnals?"
 T did"
 He could not have understood the signals unless he knew something about it, could he D
 q took it for granted he understood it.
 Well, you found out that he did not understand it, did you not?'
 No"
 MT Rayner questioned Admiral Evans at some length concerning the signals as displayed on the coast near Cienfuegos, which the admiral said the offiocer of the deck had told him had been seen on May 22 and 2S, but the witness said that he had had no con versation with Admiral Schley about these lights and had made no report to him as to their appearance or sig nificance.
 MT. Rayner then changed the base of his examination from Cienfuegos to Santiago and began by asking Admiral Evans if he had seen the official chart showing the positions of the Brooklyn and other battleships on the day of the battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898. The admiral replied that he had seen the chart, but that it was wrong.
 MT. Rayner-"When did you first know about the turn of the Brooklyn, as you say a short distance from the Texas?"
 When I saw her cross the bow of the Texas
 DO you recollect the conversation you had with Commodore Schley the HUI OI July, lIe StCOllN ddy eii tcl iHC battle, regarding the loop of the Brook lyn?"
 ..No. sir; I do not. I don't remem- Der the subject at all"
 Do you not recollect that Commo- dore Schley first told you on July that it was the Brooklyn and not the Texas | that made the turn?"
 T never imagined anything of the sort"
 Give briefly the purport of your with Commodore Schley,"
 Briefly, as I recollect, the converse ton, he was talking to a person named Graham. He was sitting at his desk writing. I walked into his cabin to make a report. He put his hand on my shoulder and said, Bobby, I am just writing my report of the battle of the third of July He said, I have said of you that you handled your ship with consummate skill Then he in- troduced me to Mir. Graham. Then Captain Cook came in and asked me if I would tell him whether the position of certain ships was correct, which came out first, etc.; that he had been a little confused in his mind. We talked a few minutes and I then went into Captain Cooks cabin"
 "You do not recollect the conversa- ton, going over the particulars of the turn that the Brooklyn made and the remark that Commodore Schley made at that time about Captain Philip when you said you thought it was Cap tain Philip of the Texas who made the turn?"
 "I never said that. Absolutely, never said such a thing, because the Texas was right under my eye all the time. She never turned at all"
 Concerning the position of the Brook yn and the Texas on the day of the battle, the witness said "The Brook yn was dangerously near the Texas. should say within one hundred yards 1f her"
 What was your position, just at that time when she crossed the course of the Texas, relative to the Brooklyn and he Texas?"
 'The Iowa was heading straight into the Spanish fleet to intercept the Viz ,aya at that time. She was heading more to the northward than the Texas. The Texas was headed off more to the west When I saw the Brooklyn the third time she was across the bow of the Texas heading south"
 When did you see her next, If at all?"
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