Evening star., 1901-10-22
GRAHAM TESTIFiES
Was War Correspondent on the
Brooklyn,
STORY OF TIE BATTLE OF JULY 3
Sch!ey-Evans Conversation Re-
gardng Philip.
RULING BY THE COURT
TORY OF TEE BATTLE OF JULY 3
RULING BY THE COURT

quiry was called to order at IL o'clock to-
| day, and continued his narrative of the
events OF the Cuban campaign Of 1895 He
was under cross-examination by Judge Ad-
vocate Lemly and his assistant. Mr. Han
| ma, when the court adjourned yesterday
and they continued their questions today.
Lieutenant Wells was followed by A. V
Mason. the log writer Of the Brooklyn. who
wrote the logs on that vessel during the
| Cuban campaign.
Mr.. G. Z. Graham, the correspondent OF
| the Associated Press, who was on board
the Brooklyn with Admiral Schley during
the entire campaign, was also on the list
of today's witnesses
The early attendance upon the court to-
day was somewhat larger than on previous
| days. indicating the increasing attractive
| ness OF the court as public spectacle
| captain Lemly began his examination Of
Lieutenant .Wells by asking him whether
| there was kept book of records showing
| letters received on the Brooklyn as Lieu
/ tenant Commander Sears had testified there
was The witness replied that there was
no such book kept, but that there was a
record OF letters sent to and received from
vessels Of the squadron.
| Navy DEPARTMENT. Orders.
| Lieut. Wells was also questioned concern
concerning
| risking of the American ships to lombard
| ment from shore batteries, the orders I'M
/ der consideration being those of April q.
April % and two of May g.
| The first of the orders OF this character
stated that the department does not wish
the vessels of your squadron to be ex-
posed to the fire of the batteries at Ha-
| Vana, Santiago or other strongly fortified
pcrts in Cuba and the others were re-
garded as notifications of these In the
last OF these, dated May 6, the department
said; The deparenent is perfectly willing
that you should expose your ships 10 fbs
heaviest guns of land batteries IL in vour
| opinion, there are Spanish vessels of suf-
Tclent military Importance protected by
THESE @tnese guns TO make an attack advisable,
| your chief aim for the present being the
destruction of the enemy's principal YES
| Sels.'
After having read these different dis
patches the witness was asked by CAPTAIN
Lemly; can you separate your knowledge
with regard to the conversation with Com
modore Schley so as to distinguish between
either OF the other two orders or both of
tnese oroers and as to whether or not any,
thing was said with regard to the recent
OF information in relation to these letters
mere, which you have before you at the
interview OF May Is In Key West?"
NO, sir. L do not distinguish between
any OF them. l have given my general re-
membrance, which Is that the order was
not 10 rlSk the ships"
In reply to questions bv Cant I,en,lv the
witness said there had been no written or
printed order of battle, but that on the tay
pelore C1enfuegos was reached some spe-
clal directions were sent to the ships by
| the Scorpion. This was. he said, order No.
| y, relating to signals in case the enemy
should be sighted. This order was then
read.
Questioned further on this point. the Wit
| ness said: Il prepared no written orders
ana did not know of the existence of any
L remember, however, that the commanding
officers were called on board"
Questioned by the Court
The witness answered several questions
put by the court as follows: AT what Pc
riod of the battle of July 8 did you use q
range Of .1,1o0 yards?"
THAT was at about the beginning Of what
is known as the turn; not the beginning.
but after the turn had begun, / should say
AT what point of the chase did you esti-
mate the Colon to be 10000 yards distant
from the Brooklyn?'
When the Viscaya went ashore"
Writer of the BrookIyn's Log
Lieut.. Wells was then excused and Mr..
Albert V. Mason called. He was questioned
by Capt Parker, and said that he had been
a yeoman of second-class on board the
Brooklyn during the Santiago campaign and
had been the writer of that ships log. He
had made the entry concerning the battle
off Santiago, and he produced copy Of the
rough log which he had made for his own
use.
The witness said that as the log giving an
account Of the Brooklyn's turn had been at
first prepared IL read: I'VE engaged with
port battery at first, but just as soon as the
enemy stood to westward we put our helm
starboard at first, then hard aport, so as to
bring starboard battery to bear, and.
swinging clear of the Texas fire, we stood
parallel with and to the enemy
hp heen changed
later at the instance of Lieut.. Hodgson
as to make it read it does in the perma-
nent copy, as follows; As soon as the
enemy stood to the westward we put our
helm aport, swinging clear of the Texas,
&c"
Correspondent Graham Testides.
Mr.. Mason then retired and Mr.. George
Edward Graham, the Associated Press cor
respondent, was called. He was questioned
by Mr.. Rayner and said he had been on
the Brooklyn from March % to August 20.
1898.
Mr.. Graham was then questioned concern
ing the conversation between Commodore
Schley and Capt. Sigsbee on the occasion
of the captains visit to the Brooklyn on
May &c, follows: Did you see capt.
Sigsbee on board the Brooklyn on May
26?"
Did you hear him in conversation with
Commodore Schley?'
Yes, SIR
can you give us what that conversation
WASP
After he had reached the quarter deck
of the gangway he stopped and Commodore
Schley said to him, Have we got 'en, Sigs-
beeT Capt Sigsbee said, No. they are not
here. ] have been here for a week and
they are not here
lis that the whole of the conversation as
you recollect?'
mo. sir. We went aft further back OF
the quarter deck and he continued the con-
yersation. Commodore Schley said: Are
you sure they are not in there He said.
I have been very close to the harbor en-
trance two or three times. Capt. Cotton
has been in and cut cable and they are
not theref +"
You heard Sigsbee say that?"
Yes. sir. 1 took some part in the con-
versation.'
Ibid you record that conversation and
did Capt. Sigsbee know you recorded Hg
Captain Sigsbee knew was a newspa-
per man and was there looking for infor-
nation, and Captain Sigsbee later took
dispatch written by me and vised by Com
modore Schley. He took IL aboard his ship