Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-01

her starboard bow"
How was the Iowa headed by the
compass?"
ITO the westward, heading for the
enemy's ships. don't know whether
we were headed west by south or west
by north"
On his cross-examination by Mr..
Raynor, Admiral Evans said that he
had left Key West with the Iowa for
Cienfuegos on May Goth and that he
knew before leaving that port that a
secret code had been arranged for COM
munieating with the insurgents on
shore at Cienfuegos, as Captain Chad
wick had given him this information.
He came on BOARD the Iowa." said
the witness, Ito deliver dispatches to
me before we got under way. To my
best knowledge and belief he gave me
written memorandum containing the
secret code. but Notwithstanding have
made diligent search among my papers
for this document, l have failed to
find it,"
Mr. Rayner-Can you refresh your
memory about this memorandum?
There is no doubt about one thing and
that is that me Iowa carried dispatches
None whatever"
When were these dispatches de-
livered to Commodore Sch,ey?"
's,hey were delivered between half
past 12 and l o'clock on the afternoon
of the 22nd"
Did you read your memorandum
about signals given to you by Captain
Chadwick"
Certainly l did, but not the dis
| patch to Commodore Schley."
Mr.. Rayner here exhibited to the wit
ness two memorandum from the Off
| cial report, but Admiral Evans said that
| neither of these was teh one to which
he had reference. That, he said, was
| the code of signals with the insurgents.
What became of that memoran-
dunn"
AS | told you, I lost It. I search
| ed everywhere and tried to find 1t. In
fact. l am not sure it was a memoran-
dunn
When did you search for this mem
orandum?"
| Il searched within the last month for
it. ever since the question has been
raised in the newspapers about my not
having given Commodore Schley this
| information"
Then did you inform Commodore
Schley that this system OF signals had
been arranged"
81 did not. 1t never entered my mind
that he did not know it,
THE Marblehead being the vessel
that established this code and Commo-
dore Schley's squadron having arrlv-
ed at Key West before the Marblehead
got there, how did it get into your mind
that Commodore Schley must have
known or the signal cOde?
you make the mistake OF suppos-
ing that | knew this was done by the
Marblehead. had no knowledge that
the Marblehead had arranged these
signals. They were simply given to
| me by the chief of staff as a system
of signals
Upon what ground did you suppose
that Commodore Schley knew it?"
'He was the commanding officer of
the squadron"
From what sources did you suppose
he got this information?
81 did not suppose anything about It,
1t never entered my head. II 1t had,
should have said, of course, that the
commanding officer OF naval force
would not expect one of his junior cap
tains to give him information about
his signals. 1t was given to me as a
piece of information which | thought
every captain in the feet had. | new
err though of Commodore Schley In
connection with it. If had supposed
for a moment that Commodore Schley
did not have it, | would have given it
to him the first thing on my arrival
there. | did not intend to say that
Commodore Schley had this signal
CODE"
At this point Mr.. Rayner produced
Admiral Evans book "a Sailors Log"
ana began to quote passage from it
on the subject of the code, when the
Judge advocate interrupted with an OBJ
lection, which was sustained by the
court. Admiral Dewey remarking: Il
would rather yoNwould get the state
ment from the witness here"
Mr.. Rayner then, while reading from
the book, put the question:
Have you ever stated" Quoting
from Admiral Evans book, I, of
course, took it for granted that the
commodore understood those signals
as we'll as | did Otherwise | should
have informed him of their signifi-
cancer
THAT is absolutely fact" replied
the witness.