The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-10-26
THE END IS NOT FAR OFF.
The Schley Court of Inquiry is
Rapidly Approaching Its
Final Stage.
FEW MORE WITNESSES TO HEAR,
The PRINCIPAL of These are Capt
Clarke, who Commanded the Ore
gon, and Rear-Admiral Schley
On whose Request the Inquiry
was Instituted.

ROn, nnu
On whose Request the inquiry
was Instituted.
Washington, Oct 23.-The Schley
court of inquiry is rapidly approach
ing its closing days, as is made evil
dent by many circumstances. One OF
these is found in the fact that the
court has had removed from its i'm
mediate vicinity most of the tables
which were placed there for the press
at the beginning of the. hearings in
September. Comparatively few of
these tables were ever used, and they
have been taken away to make o
for the increased attendance which
is expected during the last days of
the inquiry, and which is now made
manifest.
At the beginning of Wednesdays
proceedings Attorney Rayner, chief
counsel for Admiral Schley, said that
he would not have more than twelve
or fifteen witnesses to examine, and
that the examination of these would
require comparatively little time.
The principal witnesses yet to come
are Admiral Schley and Capt. Clarke.
1t is expected that Admiral Schley's
testimony will cover at least a day
or two of time, the length depending
largely on the extent of cross-exam-
~ination to which he will be subjected.
Capt. Clarke probably will be the last
witness before the admiral is heard,
but his statement, it is expected, will
be comparatively brief.
There was an unusually long list
of witnesses of former days present
in the court at the beginning of the
days session for the purpose of cor
recting their testimony, and after
they had been disposed of, another
long list for the day was presented.
The first of the new witnesses called
was James II. Hare, who, as a pho
tographer for an illustrated weekly
newspaper, witnessed and made pic.
tographs of the battle of July 3. He
was followed by Mr.. VIM. L. Hill, who
was chief boatswain on the flagship
Brooklyn during the work of coaling,
Other witnesses called for the day
were: Franklin 7. Apologize, a gun
ner on the Brooklyn; Maj. Paul st. c,
Murphy, who was in command of the
marines of the flying squadron, and
whose headquarters were on the
Brooklyn; Northumberland
S. Harlow, who was executive officer
of the Vixen, and who wrote an &C.
count of the battle of July 3, in which
1t is claimed alterations weremade be
fore it was officially published; Lieut.
L. W. Eberle, who had charge of III,
forward 13-inch turret on the Oregon,
Lieut.. A. A. Alderman, who was il
charge of the aft 13-inch turret of the
Oregon, and Lieut.. Rufus Y. Johnston
who was signal officer on the Oregon
and aide to Capt. Clarke.
While Lieut.. Simpson was on tn,
stand for the purpose of correcting
his testimony of Tuesday, he state,
In reply to a question by Nh. Hanna
that he had first seer the Oregon
coming up during the chase of tn,
Spanish ships, on July 8, when tn,
Oquendo was discovered to be on fire
Mr.. Hanna stated that his object il
bringing out this information was t.
fix the time when the Oregon cam
up.
: Mr.. G. z. Graham made an additio,
| to his testimony of Tuesday, concern
5 ing the interview between Commo
: dore Schley and Capt. Sigsbee, o
May &c. He said that beyond wha
, he had already reported Capt. Sigsbe
as saying, he further said: He ha
two pilots aboard, and hat those p
lots said that a feet of vessels of tn
t size of the Spanish squadron coul
not enter the harbor at Santiago"
Mr.. Graham also changed his repl
to the question of the court as t
whether he had heard a convers,
: ton between Commodore Schley an
Lieutenant-C Commander Hodgson du,
ing the battle of July 3. Referrin
to this, Mr.. Graham said: I'm answ,
to the question of the court l sale
e No, SIR but it seems to me that
e should say in that relation that thel
: was a great deal of conversation q,
ihS oh pctNNth thlSC VI Jour OIIlcel
l. forward, and answered no. becau,
It could not pick out from that co
a versation between Lieutenant-Co Cor
: mander Hodgson and Commodol
d Schley."
Chief Boatswain Hill, in the cour
is of his testimony, described the deaf
= of Yeoman Ellis. He said:
"The commodore asked in a matte
of-fact tone: What is the range
Ellis raised the stadimeter to his ey
# and as he did so a shell took his he;
off. As he fell to the deck, dead, NJ
Cauley said: Let's throw it owe
board The commodore said: ~
don't throw that body overheard.
died like a brave man, and / am y
ign to bury him like one.' He Il.
rected 7 e to look after the body.
u had it wrapped in blankets, laid
( the shade, and that evening il ".
Is g~ottehHTeady for burial. The Visca,
&c was putting up the best fight of al
ID ship there. She fought well, and 4
10 big shells were going over US, aud
ie great many of us ducked. The