The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-01
SCHLEY'S STORY ENDED.
Rear-Admira1 Schley Concludes His
Direct Testimony Before the
Court of Inquiry.
IS NOW IN HANDS OF CR0ss-ExAMIRERS
Capt. LemIy and MIR. Hanna VIII
Try Their Aands at Getting the
Admiral and His Dates Mixed
The Give and Take Of the
Brooklyn i'm the Battle I'm Evil
dence.

Brooklyn i'm the Battle I'm Evil
dence.
Washington, Oct. 2S.-When the
Schley court of inquiry resumed its
sitting, Admiral Schley took the
stand, and after being reminded by
Admiral Dewey that he wasstill under
oath, continued his testimony. When
he left the stand on Friday his exam
ination-in-chief had been almost con-
cluded, and when he resumed 1T vas
the understanding that after com
paratively few questions had been
asked by Mr.. Rayner he would be
placed in the hands of Judge AGvo-
cate Lemly and Mr.. Hanna for cross
examination. Mr.. Rayner's questions
were again directed toward throwing
light upon disputed points in the
controversy, and most of them con-
cerned conversations which various
witnesses for the navy department
had reported as having had with the
admiral. Before the adjournment on
Friday, he had asked him about the
ma jority of these conversations, and
the principal ones left were those
which were reported to have taken
place between Admiral Schley and
Admiral (then captain) Evans, of the
Iowa, and Commander Sharpe, of the
Vixen. The admiral's version of these
interviews differed considerably from
that of the other parties to them.
The cross-eXamination is evidently
calculated to cover quite an extended
period of time. The attendance was
large, as it had been every day since
Admiral Schley went on the stand.
Previous to Admiral Schley taking
the stand, Lieutenant-Comman
Harlow was called to correct his tes-
timony. This occupied but few min
utes, and Admiral Schley took the
stand about lilo o'clock. Mr.. Ray
ner's first question related to an Incl
dent testified t. by Lieut.. Grant on a
melee the ships got into on the way
from Cienfuegos to Santa when they
met a sailing vessel. The admiral re
piled that he had an indistinct recol-
lection of the incident. He said that
whenever the squadron stopped it was
always in conformity with signalspre-
viously made. "If there was any
mix-up, as testified to- he said, lit
must have been as the result of the
carelessness of the officer of the deck
in not carrying out the signals from
the flagship
Reverting to May 81, the day of the
reconnaissance, Mr.. Rayner asked the
witness if he recollected any signal
from the Massachusetts, to the squad
al
Il can not recall that signal, at all"
replied Admiral Schley. 1T would
have been, of course, unnecessary in
view of the fact that no vessel could
have left the line without permis-
sion of the flag or of the commander
in-chief."
Mr.. Rayner then asked Admiral
Schley regarding alleged conversa-
tions with Admiral (then captain)
Evans on July or 5.
81 did have a conversation with
him. replied the witness, "but 1 do
not remember whether it was on the
4th or 5th. / would say of Capt.
Evans, as | have said of all the 9TH
ers, do not believe he would willing
ly misstate. 1 think his recollection
is at fault. He lid have a conversa-
tion with me in relation to shooti1 z
the bow off of one of the torpedo
boats, and the stern off another, and
putting his helm a-starboard and rak-
ing one ship, and then a-port and rak-
ing another. My recollection now is
that preliminarily he said to me: Did
you see Jack Philip start to run
away and 1 said: No. that he was
mistaken. 1t was the Brooklyn that
made the turn, and L asked him if he
did not see the tactical necessity for
it,
Mr.. Rayner then called Admiral
Schley's attention to the testimony
of Admiral Taylor, who, as captain,
commanded the battleship Indiana dur.
ing the battle off Santiago, and Capt
Dawson, who commanded the marines
on that vessel, 10 the effect that the
Brooklyn, when she made the loop
went southward a mile or a mile and
half.
81 think they are entirely and alb
solutely mistaken" replied the wit
ness. THE Brooklyn did not pass to
the southwark of the line except the
distance perhaps of her tactical diam
eter, which surely was not greater
than 600 yards, and from that time
she steered a course parallel to the
Spaniards, and i do not think we
were over 1900 or 2,4O0 yards at any
time from the Spanish line I say
emphatically, that the Brooklyn did
not run south, and any statement to
tho CONTRARY iS folr
The witness stated in reply to a
question from Mr.. Rayner that when
he started to the westward from
Santiago, he left the ST. Paul at the
latter place.
Admiral Schley then told of how
his papers were boxed up by his sec
retary for transmission to the depart
ment, as the regulations require
About this time he went to Porte
Rico as a member of the Porto Ricar
commission, and this box was put. OF
the steamer, together with his bag
gage. The box finally reached Wash.
ington, and w~1 then opened for the
first time, T, Witness desiring to see