Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-09-28

wish TO Dr1ng IL out UnaT the dupont
was inside the line and that is the re
port made. l shall stand on the point
that he is not bringing out where the
| torpedo boat was.
"You are perfectly right about that,
| but you are asked in reference to any
| criticisms you may have heard of the
commander-inc chief. The question is
this: Captain Harber has definitely
stated that there was no picket boat in
side the line at Cienfuegos. You say
there was, and that the Dupont was one
of those boats?
81 was inside the line; inside the Cas-
tine"
By. the court-"Could you see the
Texas from the Dupont during the
nights of May % and May 1872"
''No sir. "
Mr.. Hanna asked what steps had been
taken while the flying squadron was off
Oienfuegos to ascertain if the Spanish
feet was inside the harbor there.
"None that know Of, was the re-
sponse.
"Was there any effort to destroy the
shore batterieyH"
The witness replied that he knew of
none.
He said, replying to another question
by Mr.. RaynOr, that vessels in the in
side harbor could not have been dis
cerned from the outside.
Lieutenant Wood was then dismissed,
and as he was leaving the courtroom
Mr. Hanna took occasion to say:
Mr.. Hanna to the Court.
II will make an announcement while
we are waiting. There has been intro.
duced before the court question of the
correctness or the identity of a certain
very important dispatch sent by the
Harvard, May 27, from off Santiago by
the commanding officer of the flying
squadron. It tappears that in the process
OF translation from the commander-in-
chief TO the department some changes
IN the language of that dispatch oc.
CURED. / do not desire at this moment
to interrupt the proceedings by any dis
cussion of that point, but shall merely
make the announcement here that we
DO intend to enter into that matter very
fully and completely; that is to say, as
1uIIy as the court may desire before we
leave it"
Colonel John Hood, who commanded
the Hawk, was the next witness. He
dispatches from Admiral Sampson to
Admiral Schley, when the latter was off
Cienfuegos.
The witness then read dispatch No. s,
from Sampson to Admiral Schlsy May
81, telling the latter that the Spanish
squadron was probably at Santiago. He
also read the Brooklyn's receipt memo
randum showing that this dispatch as
we'll as the accompanying memorandum
had been received at 8:15 May 29. The
witness identified these as the orders he
had carried.
He also said that he had carried two
other envelopes, one containing orders
from the department and the other a
memorandum, which had not been read
TO him. He said he had arrived off
Clentuegos at a. M, May %, and had
gone aboard the Brooklyn for the pur-
pose Of delivering the dispatches.
Relates Conversation.
In response to a request from the
judge advocate, Lieutenant Hood re-
lated the conversation he had had with
Admiral Schley after delivering the
message, saying that he (witness) had
told the admiral that it was Admiral
SIMPSONS wish that the flying squad
ron should proceed Immediately to San
tlago, as his information was very posi-.
tive. His statement was as follows:
Commodore Schley read the dis.
patch and then turning to me said:
Captain, Admiral Sampson wishes me
to go to Santiago. I cannot do it. -
81 told Commodore Schley that Adj
m1rsl Sampson expected the squadron
to leave the instant / arrived there.
Admiral Schley said then in nearly
these words:
Il am not at all satisfied that the
Spapiards are not in Cienfuegos."
'He said his ships all wanted coal;
the Massachusetts. the Texas and the
Brooklyn wanted so many tons of coal,
and that the day before Captain Samp-
son had sent him down the Iowa with
only half her coal supply, so that she
could not go anywhere; that it was use
less to send such ships down there only
half filled with coal. I told Commodore
Schley that I had passed collier con.
voyed by gun boat only a little before
daylight that morning and it would Ger.
tainly be there with at least 1000 or
5000 tons of coal within two or three
hours.
"de referred again to his belief of the
that he had heard some firing about 40
miles from port, which he took to be a
welcome TO the Spanish squadron; he
had also seen some smoke winch he
conceived to be the Spanish squadron
and he believed they were there. | said
to Commodore Schley then that the
which the admiral mad he
considered as definite; he had no doubt
but that the SDaniSh SOuadrOu was of
Commodore Schley then said
TO me:
Sampson Does Not Understand.
Captain, Sampson does not under
stand. He is not on the spot and cannot
judge.
Describe the commodore's manner on
this OCCASION" said Captain Lemley.
THE commodore was sitting in his
chair at the time was talking to him,
very quietly. He seemed to be much
at what to do"
% vou ramon hnr what was said