Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-10-12


make our fire very slow. To the best
stated we would have to do the best
we could that the speed would be 10
knots. 1 3sS# # sts3
S Describing the range at which he
had fired his guns on the occasion he
said at first IT was z 900 yards under
orders and then he had increase led it, to
$500 yards, but that all the shots fell
short. He said that the Spanish shore
batteries had not given the American
ships much trouble on that occasion. @s
spaniards Could Get Away.
Lieutenant Francis Boughter. who
was a watch and division officer on
board the Marble ehead during Commo-
sdore Schley,s blockade of Santiago,
was then called. He said that during
that time the Marblehead and the Viz
5en were on picket duty between the
shore line and the line of the blockade,
the Marblehead being stationed three
miles from the shore and to the west
ward, six miles from the MORO. He
would not attempt to say how far out.
side the squadron was, but he could
not see the ships after nj ightfall. The
court asked: 3s :s1s D 5.ss ES@
Was the MarbleheadSs in such posi-
tion at night while on picket duty off
Santiago that the enemy's vessels.
would have been seen j had they at
tempted to leave the Sharb OF ??'' y.
Witness repli d--t' T hat. would de-
pend upon q great many $circum-
stances, tfe state of the weather, the
course they took and the success In
keeping their ships dark and quiet:
Admiral Dewey The Marbl lehead
was on picket duty Could she have,
seen the enemy coming r. ~ ;> s.
sI sIf the enemy had kept close to
shore and we were three miles off, as
we were during most of the time, we
could not have seen them; IL the en-
Eemy had stood south from the en-.
trance, which would have placed them
about four miles off we could not have
seen them provided they Kept reason
ably dark and quiet. ''#$s
Mr.. Rayner & hat was the purpose
aof the picket boats being there IL
they could not see the enemy ?'' SS
i hey were supposed to be there,I
presume, for that purpose. Z, Il S55
s& Then IL they were there for that
purpose what was sit that would have
prevented them from accomplishing
this jectt ~ 55s 81
81 The fact that they could not see a
vessel ifeit ran alta distance OF from
two to two and q half miles Off at
night. ~ III
Based Entirely on Estimate.
hen. the afternoon session Of the
court began, Mr.. Rayner continued his
5crosscexa mat ion ss2 OF 5sis iealbenant.
Boug ghter. The lieutenant said his es-
TINA of the distance his ship was out
from the Morro from land ait Santiago
was based on an estimate and not on
measurements. /. He said he had not
informed Captain McCalla, his com
manding officer, Of any fear that the
Spaniards might escape, for the rea-
son that he considered Captain Nc
Gala as well Informed on that point
B as himself.
When Lieutenant Boughter was ex-
cused Lieutenant Ernest Bennett, who
was flag lieutenant on the New York
I'D y 1898. was called to the stand.
He said that when the North At
1antic squadron arrived off Santiago
they found the flying squadron there.
They stopped about seven miles di-:
rectly south of & the harbor and the
witness said he had seen the Cristobal
Colon In the harbor. He also said that
almost Immediately afterwards the
vessel moved to the \ westward back
Sof Gay Smith. J. This last statement
however, was stricken from the record
on the ground that such testimony
prHYiOHSiY had been exeillaa ed