Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-27
TISSUE OF LIES.
Capt. Mcdonald Disposes of
Corp. O'Brien's Stories.
Has Deliberately Lied About American
Officers and Men.
No Such Deeds As He Described Have
Ever Occurred.

Washington, May 26-Capt. McDon-
aid, formerly of the 2Gth Volunteer In
fantry, one of the officers accused in
Corporal O'Irien's case, was before the
Philippine committee of the Senate,
today. He denied all Of the allegations
made by O'Brien and said O'Brien was
on duty elsewhere at the time he claim
ed to have been present.
Mcdonald said that American officers
had not violated a Spanish woman nor
any other woman to his knowledge. He
also denied the statement made bv
O'Brien that he (McDonalO and a
number of other officers misbehaved
themselves at native dance. He
showed At the time alleged, Major Cook,
one Of the officers named, and himself.
We're on duty elsewhere.
The shooting of the bearers Of flag Of
truce and the burning of a woman and
child by his command was another
story by O'Brien that he denied Capt.
Mcdonald said O'Brien was a trouble
some soldier from the first.
capt. Mcdonald, who lives in Boston.
said he had no doubt that he was the
Captain Frederick Mcdonald referred
to in Corp. OBricn's testimony. He
administered at Igbaras, but asserted
that O'Brien was at San Joaquin, 50
miles away at the time. TIE one case
named was the only time he ever saw
the water cure administered.
Senator Lodge-"Do you know Of the
violation of the person Of a Spanish wo-
man by American officers, as testified
to by O'Brien?"
Capt. McDonall-"No such circum-
stance as that ever occurred at that
time or any other from the beginning
to the end of my stay in the Philippines
and l have never known of Il Spanish
woman or any other woman being vio-
lated by IN American officer"
The witness went on to say that he
supposed the woman that O'Brien had
in mind in this connection was the wife
of son of the mayor of 1gbzaras. A
brother of the woman's husband, he
said, had been made cripple for life
by Montour's band of ladrones ana the
body Of the husbands father. when he
died, had been dragged about the
streets by Montour himself. This wn-
man, re said, had given valuable infor-
nation to SerGt Davis of his company
concerning the movement of the instr-
woman never had been maltreated by
the Americans.
Regarding O'Rrien's statement that
Mcdonald and other officers had de-
meaned themselves disgracefully at a
native dance at San joaquin, Capt. Nc
Donald said:
That statement is n deliberate lie
from beginning to end. Major Cook
flI1tN "A "a nf IA n
miles distant at the time the dance is
said to have occurred and l was on
duty al Migoon."
Capt. Mcdonald also fatty contradic- |
ted O8ricn's statement to the effect |
that he or any other officer of the COM
pany had withheld from the troops the |
rations to which they were entitled. He |
called attention to the fact that the |
captain of company never handles |
the fund for the purchase from the |
supplies needed by his command.
He also declared it was not true that
the bread received for the company
has been sold.
THE soldiers he said. chad fresh |
bread every day in the week that we
could bake it,
AS to the statement that the insur-
gents hau put price on his head be |
cause Of his cruelty, Capt. Mcdonald
said he never had heard of that
II imagine he said, that the in
surgents would have shot any officer of
the American army as / would have
shot any insurgent officer who would
not surrender, but that there was any
price upon my head | had no evidence.
and | went about freely and alone
among the natives at all times
He also denied that he ever had |
ever had struck prisoner over the |
head with revolver as O'Brien had |
charged.
If he said, "a prisoner had not
done as ordered, 1 would have shot him
instead of striking him.
Speaking of the treatment of peace
able natives by the Americans in the
Cant. Mcdonald said 1t
was like the treatment of a child by his
father.
The witness also testified concerning
the capture of Barrio in connected j
with which O'Brien had said that an
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