The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-27
Says the Corporal Deliberately
 Lied to Senators
WAS TROUBLESOME SOLDIER
captaln Mcdonald Says He and Other Officers Did Not Mlsbehave at Dance or MaItreat a Certain
 Spanish Woman.

waahInRton. May 26.-Captain McDon" aIa formerly of the Twenty-sixth Volun- teer Infantry, one of the officers accuseu in Corporal O'BrienTs testimony, was be- fore the Philippines committee of the Senate today. He denied all the aiiesa- tions made by O'Brien, and said oBrien was on duty elsewhere at the time ne claims he was present. Mcdonald salo that none of the officers had violated Ssanish woman or other women 10 ms knowledge He also denied the statement made by O Brien that he CMcDonalo) ana a number df officers misbehaved them selves at native dance. He showed that at the time alleged Major Cook, one or the officers named, and himself were on duty elsewhere The shooting of bearers of flags of truce and the burning Of woman and child by his command was another story by O'Brien that he denied C,aptain Mcdonald said O'Brten was a troublesome soldier from the first.
 Captain Mcdonald, who is from Charles town, Mass said he had no doubt that he was the Captain Frederick Mcdonald referred to In Corporal O'Brien's testi- mony. He admitted having seen the wa ter cure administered at Igbaras. but as- serted thst O'Brien was at San. Joaquin thirty miles away. at the time. The one case was the only time he ever saw the water cure administered.
 Senator Lodge: Do you, know anything of the violation of the person of Span 4 Off fled to by O'Brien?'
 Denies Assault Story.
 Captain McDonald "No such c1rcum- stance as that ever occurred at that time or any other from the beginning to the end of my stay In the Philippines and I have never known of the person of A Spanish woman or any other woman being violated by an American officer. The witness went on to say that ne sup posed the woman that O'Brien had named in this connection was a wife of son or the mayor of Igbaras A brother of the womans s husband he said had been made a cripple for life by Montourses band of I.adrones. and the body or the nus bands father when he died, had peer dragged about the streets by Montours himself This woman, he said, had givel valuable information to Sergeant Davi of his company, concerning the movemen of the insurgents. But the witness adde' that this woman never had been maltreat ed by the Americans.
 Regarding O'Brien's statement that Nc Donald and other officers had demeanec themselves disgracefuly at native dance at San Joaquin. Captain Mcdonald said:
 .'This statement Is a deliberate lie from beginning to end. Major Cook, whose name Is given as that of one of the off, cers present on that occasion was on duty at the town of Jaro, sixty miles distant at the time the dance Is said to have occurred and I was on duty at Migoon."
 This dance was said to have occurred at the home of the presidente of the town of San Joaquin and the mention of that individual brought to the mind of Captain Mcdonald an incident which, he said, had occurred when he first visited the town.
 Tells an Incident.
 The presidente had invited him to breakfast and after he had partaken of that meal he became violently ill phy- sician pronounced the symptoms to be due to poisoning. but as some of the members of the presidente's family also were similarity ;ick. 1t was supposed at the time that the poisoning was acci- dental and the matter was dropped. "I state that as a reason why l could not have been at the dance" he said. and he added that he had later received evil dence that this native official was con tributing to the insurgent cause.
 Captain Mcdonald also f1atly contra dicted O'Brien's statement to the effect that he or any other officers of the com pany had withheld from the troops the rations to which they were entitled
 He also declared that it was not true that the bread received for the com pany had been sold.
 Captain Mcdonald denied that he ever had struck a prisoner over the head with a revolver as Brien had charged If" he said "a prisoner had not done as ordered l should have shot him in. stead of striking him." The witness alsC testified concerning the capture of Bar rio of Lanog fin connection with whici O'Brien had said that an unarmed bo, had been fired on by the entire com mand. that three old men, two of then bearing a flag of truce had been sho down and that a woman and two childrer had been burned to death. He denied al the statements, but said 1t was true tha the barrio had been captured and burn. ed It was a stockade stronghold oi ladrones The Americans occupied the town for two hours and then after giv- ing ample notice of their intentions, set fire to the place. If any person was burn- ed to death, he never had heard of the fact