The age-herald., 1901-10-29
Judge Advocate Tries to Show SchIeyMade No Orders
 of Battle WORK or BROOKLYN'S GUNS
Brooklyn Received 70 Per Cent of the Hits from the Spanish ShIps-SchIey
 Frankly Admits He Cannot
 Recall Minor Details.

Washington, October 2S.-The cross examination of Admiral Schley began to- day before the court of inquiry and hardly more than a third of the ground was covered when the court adjourned at o'clock After Admiral Schley con. cludes tomorrow two other witnesses will be called in his behalf, Admiral Barker and Captain Thomas Bordon. The latter was an officer of the marine corps aboard the Brooklyn. The judge advocate ther will call his witnesses in rebuttal, oi whom there are understood to be more than fifteen,- and it is probable that Ad- miral Schley's counsel will call witnesses In rebuttal.
 The only outburst today in the court occurred when MT. Rayner, Admiral Schley's counsel. objected to line of in- quiry of the judge advocate designed to criticise Admiral Schley's alleged failure to formulate plan of battle, with the declaration that as Admiral Sampson was in command, his junior had no right to plan an order of battle.
 Admiral Schley concluded his direct ex- animation, which continued only about ten minutes after the court convened this morning, with a statement of the effect of fire of the respective fleets at Santiago, showing that 36 per cent of the hits suf- fered by the enemy were scored by the Brooklyn's 5-inch guns, while his ship received 70 per cent of the hits from the Spanish ships. Captain Lemly's cross examination was very searching. Ad- miral Schley, however, appeared to be unruffled throughout the examination, frankly admitting on several occasions that he could not remember little details after the lapse of three years. One line of inquiry which the judge advocate tried to press to show that Admiral Schley did not proceed with dispatch" from Key West to Cienfuegos by attempting to con trast the speed made between Charleston and Key West with the time between l Key West and Cienfuegos was curtailet by decision of the court which confined the questions to the time subsequent tt May 19 the day on which the flyinl | squadron left Key West. The judge ad vocate in his cross examination dwell upon the interview between Admira Sampson and Commodore Schley at Ke,
 
 squadron at which the latter testified that Admiral Sampson was instructed not tc | expose his ships to shore batteries until I the Spanish fleet had been destroyed and on the fact that Admiral Schley issued no written order of battle.
 No Mlxup at Sea. Admiral Schley took the stand at 11:1( o'clock. MT. Rayner's first question re- lated to an incident testified to by Lieu tenant Grant of a melee the ships got into on the way from Cienfuegos to San- tiago, when it met a sailing vessel
 The admiral replied that he had no dis tinct recollections of the incident He said that whenever the squadron stopped 1t was always in conformity with signals previously made. Asked if there was any mix-up as testified on the stand, he said ''1t must have been the result of care lessness in not carrying out the signals from the flagship
 Reverting to May 31, the day of the reconnaissance, MT. Rayner asked the witness if he recollected any signal from the Massachusetts to the squadron not to go in any closer.
 T cannot recall that signal at all," re- piled the admiral
 Tt would have been, of course, unnec- essary in view of the fact that no vessel could have left the line without permis- 'ACiA II CAi SllC iid6 LII chief"
 MT Rayner then asked Admiral Schley regarding alleged conversations with Ad- miral, then Captain, Evans, on July or 5.
 ''I did have a conversation with him, " replied the witness but I do not re- member whether it was on the 4th or 9th. l would say of Captain Evans as have said of all the others, I do not believe he would willingly misstate. I think his recollection is at fault He did have a conversation with me in relation to shooting the bow off one of the torpedo boats and the stern off another and put ting his helm astarboard and raking one ship and then aport and raking another. | My recollection now Is that preliminarily | he said to me. Did you see Jack Philip start to run away and l said No, that | he was mistaken. It was the Brooklyn l that made the turn, and l asked if he | did not see the tactical necessity for 1t. The Brooklyn Loop. MT. Rayner then called Admiral Schley's attention to the testimony of Admira Taylor who as captain commanded the battleship Indiana during the battle of Santiago, and Captain Dawson, who com manded the marines on that vessel to the effect that when the Brooklyn made the loop it went southward mile or mile
 
 '.I think they are entirely and absolute. ly mistaken" replied the witness.
 'The Brooklyn did not pass to the southward of the line except the distance perhaps. of her tactical diameter. which surely was not greater than 600 yards and from that time she steered course parallel to the Spaniards and I do not think we were over 2,300 or 2,400 yards at any time from the Spanish line. say emphatically- that the Brooklyn did not run south and any statement to the con trary is a mistake.
 The admiral then spoke of the hits on the Spanish squadron. The Brooklyn, he testified, was the only ship carrying B. inch guns A record of the hits received by the enemy showed that 36 per cent. of the hits scored by the American fleet came from those guns on the Brooklyn. The Brooklyn received thirty, of the for ty-two hits from the SDanish fleet or