The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-01

municating with the insurgents on
shore at Cienfuegos, because Capt.
Chadwick had given him this informa-
! ton.
He came on board the Iowa." said
the admiral ito deliver dispatches be-
fore we got under way. To my best
knowledge and belief he gave me a
written memorandum containing the
secret code, but notwithstanding 1 have
made diligent search among my papers
for this document, 1 have failed to find
| it."
Mr.. Rayner: Can you refresh your
memory about + this memorandum
There is no doubtsabout one thing and
that is the Iowa carried dispatches"
None whatever.
when were those dispatches de-
livered to Commodore Schley?" They
We're delivered 1890 and l o'clock on the
afternoon of the 22d"
Did you read the memorandum
about signals given to you by Capt.
Chadwick" Certainly 1 did, but not
the dispatches to Commodore Schley."
Mr.. Rayner here exhibited to the wit
ness two memorandums from the Off
cial reports but Admiral Evans said
that neither of these was the document
to which he had reference. That, he
said, was the code of signals with the
insurgents.
What became of that memoran-
dunn" "As 1 told you'll lost it'll searched
everywhere and tried to find it. In fact,
1 am not sure it was a memorandum"
When did you search for this men,
orandum? Il searched within the
last month for it."
Then did you inform Commodore
Schley that this system of signals had
been arranged?" II 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 havings arrived
at Key West before the Marblehead got
there, how did it get into your mind
that Commodore Schley must have
known such signal code?"
You make the mistake of supposing
that l knew this was done by the Mar
blehead. 1 had no knowledge that the
Marblehead had arranged these signals.
They were simply given to me by the
chief of staff as system of signals"
Upon what ground do 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" Il did not
suppose anything about it. 1t never
entered my head. If it had 1 should
have said of course, that the command
ing officer of a naval force would not
expect his Junior captains to give him
information about his signals. 1t was
given to me as piece of information
which l thought every captain in the
fleet had. l never thought of Commo-
dore Schley not having it. If I sup
posed for moment that Commodore
Schley did not have it 1 would have
given it to him the first thing on my
arrival there. I did not intend to say
that Commodore Schley had this signal
code"
At this point Mr.. Rayner produced
Admiral Evans book "A sailors log
and began to quote passage from it
on the subject of code, when the Judge
advocate interrupted with an objection
which was sustained by the court, Ad-
miral Dewey remarking: would rather
you would get the statement from the
witness"
Mr.. Rayner, then, while reading from
the book, put the question; Have you
ever stated" Quoting from Admiral
Evans book, Il, of course, took it for
granted that the commodore under
stood those signals as well as | did
Otherwise, I should have informed him
OF their significance? ?" That is alb
.solutely fact replied the witness.
Therefore you did take it for granted
that the commodore understood the
signals2" Il did"
He could not have understood the
signal until he knew something about
1t, could he?" Il took it for granted
that he understood them"
Admiral Evans was asked if he had
Seen the official chart showing the
position of the Brooklyn and other
Dattleships on the day of the battle
off Santiago, July 3, 1898. The admiral
replied that he had seen the chart but
that it was wrong
Mr.. Rayner-"When did Won first
know about the turn of the BroolxIvn
as you say, short distance from The
Texas ?" When 1 saw her cross tha
bow of the Texas.
DO you recollect the conversation
you had with Commodore Schlev tba
NTH OF July, the second day after the
battle. regarding the loop of the
Brooklyn?'' No, sir, I do not remem-
Der the subject at ALL"
You do not recollect that Commo-
dore Schley first told you on July 5
that 1t was the Brooklyn and not the
Texas that made the turn?" Il never
imagined anything Of the sort
Give briefly the purpOrt of your
conversation with Commodore Schiey."
Briefly, as l recOllect the conyersa-
ton. he was talking to a person named
Graham. He was sitting at his desk
writing. 1 walked into his cabin to
make a report. He put his hand on
my shoulder and said, Bobby, 1 am
just writing my report of the battle
of the third of July He said L have
said of you that you handled your
snip with consummate skill Then he
introduced me to Mr.. Graham Then
capt. Cook came in and asked me if
would tell him whether the position
OF certain ships was correct, which
came out first. etc; that he had been
little confused in his mind. We talked
a few minutes and 1 then went into
Capt. Cooks cabin"
you do not recollect the conversa-