The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-27
The Kansas burning Recalled.
0'BRIEN WAS BAD SOLDIER.
Capt. Mcdonald of Goth Volunteers
C0ntraGicts Sensational Testimony
of CORPORAL.

Capt. Mcdonald of Goth Volunteers
Contradicts Sensational Testimony
of Corporal.
Washington, May 26.-Capt. McDon-
aid, formerly of the Twenty sixth Vol
unteer Infantry, one of the officers ac-
cused in Corpl OBriens testimony,w
before the Philippine Committee of the
Senate to-day He denied all of the
allegations made by Corpl. O'Brien. and
said Corpl. O'Brien was on duty else
where at the times he said he was pres
emit. Capt. Mcdonald said that Ameri-
can officers had not violated Spanish
woman, nor other women to his knowl-
edge. He also denied the statement
made by Corpl. O'Brien, that he (Mc-
Donald, and a number of other officers
misbehaved at a native dance. He
showed that at the time alleged Maj
Cook, one of 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 Corpl. O'Brien that he denied
Mcdonald said O'Brien was a trou-
blesOme soldier from the first.
The Spanish Woman Case.
The witness said that he supposed
the woman that O'Brien had in mind
was, the wife of a son of the Mayor of
Igbaras. A brother of the woman's
husband had, he said, been made a
cripple for life by Montour's band of
Ladrones, and the body of the hus-
bands father, when he died. had been
dragged about the streets by Montour
himself. The woman had, he said,
given valuable information to Sergt
Davis of his company. concerning the
movement of the insurgents. But the
witness added, this woman had never
been maltreated by the American. Ii
this connection the witness said he had
received letters from several subordi-
nate officers of his company confirm
ing what he had said concerning
O'Brien's absence from Igbaras at the
time.
Asked in regard to O'Briens state
ment that he and other officers had
demeaned themselves disgracefully al
a native dance at San Joaquin, Capt.
Mcdonald replied. my English vocab-
ulary is not sufficient to enable me to
adequately and properly qualify that
statement. 1t is a deliberate lie from
beginning to end. Maj. Cook, whose
name is given as that of one of the Off
GERS present on that occasion was on
duty at the town of Jaro, so miles dis
tant, at the time the dance is said 70
have occurred, and 1 was on duty at
Migeon."
Poisoned by Presidents.
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 Capt. Mcdonald an incident which
had, he said, occurred when he first
visited the town. The presidente had
then invited him to breakfast and
after he had partaken of that meal he
became violently i'll. A physician pro-
nounced the symptoms to be due to
poisoning but as some of the members
of the presidente's family were also
similarly sick, it was supposed at the
time that the poisoning was accidental
and the matter was dropped.
II state that as a reason why could
not have been at the dance" he said,
and he added that he had later re-
ceived evidence that this native Off
cial was contributing to the insurgent
cause.