The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-28

very quietly. He seemed to be very
much perplexed at what 70 do"
DO you remember whether there was
anything said about communicaTs1-~
with The insurgents2"
There was thing said by me-"
In the commoaore's presenter"
NO; chief Of STAFF on deck The
commodore was IT, the cabin"
Tan you state whether or not. dur
ing the time you were at CienfueEos
with the Hawk. any effort was made
Cubans2''
There was not
The witness then testified that the
steamer Aaula, IN passing, had re-
ported to the Brooklyn that n cSl57z
nad been received at Kingston, Nav 10
saying tina the .ipanish squadron was
IN the narbOr at Santiago Admiral
Schey's report of this occurrence was
also read, as was his statement dis
creditng the information, because he
Inen believed the squadron to be in
Cientuegos. All these reports have
heretofore been published.
NJ Raynor began his cross-exami-
nation a few minutes before 1 o'clock
ara mad rot proceeded FAR when the
court took q recess for luncheon.
Schley Coaches Raynor.
When the court began its afternoon
session Mr.. Raynor continued his cross
examination OF Lieutenant Hood. The
latter said his recollection was that he
had delivered his dispatches to Commo-
dore Schley IN his (Schley-s - cabin. but
IL flight be that he had banded them
10 Lieutenant Wells and had walked
down TO the cabin with him. He
thought there was no one in the cabin
when lie conversation between himself
and the commodore had taken place.
Mr.. Raynor was pre- ceeding to ques-
ton the Witnea. COncC ming his con-
vercati0n with Admiral sampson when
Admiral Scaley leaned over and warned
him that this cOnvers1 AiOu had been
ruled out
Mr. Rayncr then changed his line Of
questioning. He said:
y want 30 ask you whether in this
converse tiou with Commodore Schley
upon this occasion. nc did not tell YOU
that Admiral Sampson had instructed
MIN before nc left for Santiago to sat
1siy himself that the Spanish fleet was
not ~ ticnfucgOS."
The reply was: II gathered from
ms converse zion that ne had that in
EoEnc of the dispatches which were
written previously 20 dispatches / car
Iied him. which were of later date and
therefore of course annulled all the
others"
cut this dispatch YOU carried gave
him that discretiOn2"
THAT was rot the latest dispatch
whose contents J knew"
DIR. Eayn0r questioned the witness
concerning the report OF the presence
OF me spanish fleet At Santiago and
attempted TO read quotation from a
magazine article, alleged TO have been
written by Admiral Samson to stls-
tain his point that the Adrla had re-
ported that the fleet -emained at san
tiago only one day. Nfr. Hanna OBJ
Tested 90 the intrOduc ton OF the article
- testimony. He said among other
things;
II have written magazine article:
myself for promine gentlemen whose
names were signed to them"
He said. however. that he did no
doubt that the article was Admira
SIMPSONS. The question was Uiti
mately withdrawn for the time being
Captain Lemly then asked:
Vas not your understanding tina
the Adula in communication with tn,
Bro oklyn. lead the officers of tn
Brooklyn to believe that the Spanish
fleet had arrived IN Santiago one DAY
and come out Of the harbor the mex
day Was not that the impression &
left on your mind?'
The reply was. THE impression
made on my mind was no impression
whatever. Tt IS my recollection that a
that date I knew the fleet was in San
tiaEo harbOr."
Captain Lemly questioned Mr.. Hoo
concerning the dispatches delivered b,
him to Admiral Schley. elicitfng from
ricd two dispatChs s to the adrnira
from the commauder-in-chief he knew
thai the Information contained in on
OF them was later than that in tn
other because the one was dated a
Havana and the other at Key West
The Havana dispatch had containe,
more positive instructions about pro
ceeding 10 Santiago.
Captain RcCal1a Testifes.
Lieutenant Hood then was excuse,
and Captain Bowman II. McCaua, VIII
commanded the Ms~blehead during tn
Spanish war was called. Witness ma,
first came into contact with the flynn
squadron on May 49, 1898. When h
was proceeding from the south coas
OF Cuba 10 Key West, he met tn
squadron on its way TO Cuba. Witnes
said he had not been asked TO come 81
board the Brooklyn for the purpose o
making report on conditions IN Chlba
but had made a fun report to Cap
ia Chadwick Admiral Sampson
80 of staff when he arrived at Ke,
SVes& on this point he said;
.1rt 1ulfl0n to written reports o
GispaicNs which I carried. 1 explaine,
10 the Nief - STAFF .he secret cod
which I ~ established with the Gu
bans n-ar Nienfucgos. That was no
done Sntu \ heard that COmniJdor
schle,' vas lNoeeeding TO Cienfuegos.
.'NVnpt was Xhe secret code. briefly {?
"s.l the i5uA and 16.h OF May. 1895
had be r. in comm. unication VIII
three cuban officers ana two private
on the MatSlehcId and / had arrange
with Lieutenant Lavarez. who spOk
English very wtf. a 81 stem of signal
sn ease they wiAhed to communieat
,vfth the Marbietcad or my forces
There were to Dee cbree no -izontal light
at night and three horses in line 81
the beach by day"
10 whom. according to the best o
your recollection, did YOU communicat
that secret code Of signals2"
only to Captain Chad wick. chief .
staff"
Did you make n written report 70
speeding those signals?"
Never. Il. was a secret code arrange
by myself ana ] did not wish any pub
ncity 20 be given ;his code becaus
he Cubans might be betrayed by an
publicity whith would reach the Span
ish government in havana.
Fear of Betrayal.
did you have any fear OF betraya
of our own force in like manner"
- thought thai was possible O
course; that was IN my mind at tn
time"
How long after you reached Ke
West before you made that csmmuni