Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
DIDN'! GET THE NEWS
Government Sought To Establish That
Schley Had Been Notified
EAGLES DISPATCH NOT DELIVERED.
The Ships Record Shows That They
Were Too Far Out to Recogniz. =.
Signals From the Shore

Washington, D. c., special.-Just be-
fore the Schley court of inquiry ad-
journed Thursday Judge Advocate
Lemly introduced Lieutenant J. H
Holden, formerly watch officer on the
scorpion, as a witness Lieutenant
Holden signed the entry in the Scorpi-
ons log, giving the particulars Of the
receipt or a message for Commodore
ochley from the Eagle, which that yes
sci had brought from Captain McCai!a
on May ~, 1893, when the flying squad
ron, then bound for CienfuegOs. fell in
with captain McCalla's sub-squadrOn
which had just left that port. - he g0y-
ernment had sought to show that hv
this message Commodore Schley had
Deen notified that the Spanish fleet was
not IN the harbor Of Cienfueg0s. and
Lieutenant Commander Switzerland
of the Eagle, had testified that he had
megaphOned to the Scorpion that there
were only torpedo boat and several
cannopierioH in that harbor. Carta;n
Lemly told the court that the log OK
the Scorpion did not show that the re-
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that there was no evidence to Show the
delivery Of the message to COmmC-
dore Schley.
Other witnesses were Lieutenant
Commander w. II. SchuetZa. who sery-
ed on the Iowa, and Lieutenant A. ".
Grant, who was on the Massachusetts.
who testified concerning the general
campaign OF the flying squadron. Lieu
tenant E. r. Leipner concluded his tes-
t1mOny begun yesterday. Captain Lem
iy asked him concerning the blockade
Of Santiago by Commodore SchIey.
The witness said the vessels were "
Ing In column from six to eight miles
OF shore. AT night they steamed slow
~ back and forth in front Of the har-
Dor 500 yards apart. They We're SO far
out, the witness said, that it was i'm
possible to distinguish pointA on the
shore or to determine where the shore
line met the water line.
Lieutenant olUmander VIM r.
SchuetZe. who was a member of the
board of navigation which prepared the
official chart Of the positions of the
board OF navigation which prepared
the official chart of the positions of
the vessels engaged in the battle of
July 3, said he had not been satisfied
with the report. Il protested,' he said.
"againS the signing Of the report as
being inaccurate, but | was finally per
suaded to do SO by the senior member
Of the board, Commander Wainwright,
who thought that was the best we
could do even if we stayed there until
doomsday and | signed it under pro-
test. My first Ohje ion was that the
chart was mac ate; that the position
Of the Iowa IS plotted on this chart
as giving her too much speed. Another
objection l had was the initial position
of the Brooklyn when the Spaniards
left the harbor. l contended that the
BrOoklyns position was too close to
the mouth Of the harbor; that she was
not in her regular position. She was
south of it."
Captain Lemly: Il want you to state
when you saw the TeXas?"
when first saw the Texas she was
heading to the eastward Of north Soon
afterward I noticed her again and she
was headed to the westward and ap-
parently lying dead in the water l call
ed Captain Evans attention to the fact
that she was in our way; that she was
lying dead in the water and cautiO
thc captain that we would probably run
into her if we kept on the way we wele
heading She was then on our port
bow. We were trying to get close into
the harbOr and steamed at first direct
ly for the mouth of the harbOr AS the
Spaniards turned to the westward We
turned in the same direction and in this
move we were hindered by the Texas"
On cross examination Mr. Rayner
questioned the witness in reference TO
the official chart.
why did not you state, This chart
Is wrong and I will not sign it,"
Il did"
Then why did you sIgn?'
"Becausce I was persuaded by the
other witnesses Of the board that that
vas the best we could do and they
wanted to come to an agreement. That
was a compromise"
Then really this chart was signed
for the purpose Of coming to an agree
ment and not for the purpose OF show
ing any accurate results. was it?"
The board was ordered to show &C
curate results, but it was an absolute
impossibility to make chart OF that
kind showing accurate results. There
was never a chart drawn Of any battle
in the world that.is correct.
When the court re-conVened after
luncheon Lieut. Commander Schuetze
said he had seen no evidence Of dis
position on the part Of any OF Ger
yera's ships to ram any Of the Ameri-
can vessels.
BY the court: Was your position du
ring the battle OF July such as to en-
able you to observe clearly the relative
positions and movements of the differ
ent ships?"
NO, sir. never observed the rela-
tive positions of all the ships on ac-
count cf the smoke and the attention
we we're paying to our own ship in the