Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-04-18
SERC'T DAVIS TELLS
OF WATER CURE"
TestimonyBefore Senate Com
mittee on Philippines.
STORY OF CRUEL TORTURE

How "Cure" Was Administered to a
the Regulars, Gave Order for This
Punishment.
Washington, April 17.-Edward J.
| Davis, of Greenfield, Mass, who was
a sergeant of company NJ, Fourth vol
unteer infantry, was before the senate
| committee on the Philippines commit
| tee today.
He was present in the convent at
Tgbaras Nov. 27, 1900, when the water
cure" was administered to the presi.
dente of the town of Igbaras, as tes-
tilted to by Sergeant Riley and Pri-
vate Smith and related the incidents
connected Herewith.
He was sworn before being exam
ined and questioned by Senator Raw.
Inns. He spoke of the arrival of the
regulars under the command of Cap.
tain Glenn. He said that under or.
ders from Captain Glenn he, with a
custody on Nov. 27 and had escorted
| them to the convent where the ''cure"
was administered
He repeated the story of the torture
| of the presidente, adding some details.
The man was, he said, about 40 years
| old. When he was taken into the con.
vent he was asked to give information
as to whether runners had been sent
| out to notify the insurgents of the ar.
rival of the scouts in town. Refus.
Ing to do this, the water detail" con.
sist1ng OF two privates of the Eigh.
| teenth infantry, was ordered by Cap.
tain Glenn to strip him. The mans
clothing was removed and his hands
tied behind him, when the cure was
administered {.
He was then" the witness said,
taken to the watwer tank and thrown
upon his back and while an interpre.
ter stood over him a stream of water
was directed into his mouth, which
was held open"
who gave the command for this
| treatment?"
Captain Glenn"
How was the mans mouth kept
open?"
by means of stick, but l could
not see just how it was done"
Continuing the witness said that the
victim was filled with water, and then
the members of the detail would force
1t out of him by rolling their fists over
his stomach, and that the process was
kept up for about ten minutes. He de-
| scribed the second application of the
cure as previously testified by Ser.
geant Riley. He said Captain Glenn
and Lieutenant Conger were not pres.
| ent when it occurred.
Mr.. Davis said in reply to questions
| as to the physical effect of the pro-
cess that the man 'squealed" terribly
and that his eyes were bloody, but
that the next day he was able to mount
his horse and lead the scouts to the
mountains. Afterwards, he said he
was taken to IloilO and put in prison.
He. also repeated the statement that
two police officers of the town of Ig.
baras had been subjected to the water
| cure.
There was" he added, 'also a ma.
T tive schOolteacher there who was NAL.
treated at the same time, but the wa.
ter cure was not administered to hiEl.
He was taken into one of the back
rooms of the convent by Dr. Lyons,
| who secured the information he want.
n6 inn hxy nj IRC
yolvers to his head, thus rendering 1t
unnecessary to use the cure"
did you see this?"
az did"
Mr.. Davis gave the details of the
burning of the town of Igbara, which,
he said, contained about 10000 people,
but no business places. All except
about Is houses were destroyed and
| men, women and children were forced
out indiscriminately.
Senator BurroWs-"Who gave the
order to burn the town."
Captain Glenn"
"To whom did he give it?"
ITO Lieutenant Conger. He told the
lieutenant to burn the town.
did you hear him?"
81 did"
did he say why it should be burn
~a9v
He die r@"
Tne wIrness also said that neigh
boring town containing about 10000
people had been burned, but that he
did not know who had given the order
for its destruction.
He stated in reply to questions that
the torture in all the instances men
toned had been conducted by the reg
ular soldiers and that they had not
been participated in by the members
of his regiment, the Twenty-sixth vol
unteers.
my orders were," he said, "to treat
natives kindly, and so far as I observ
ed the soldiers generally so treated
them, with the exceptions mentioned"
He added that the presidente had
been a traitor to the American cause
and that the other natives did not
generally have any sympathy for him.
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