, 1902-05-28
HIS GUN WAS SPIKED
CAPTAIN MCDONALD EFFECTu-
ALLY sLuE-PENCILS coRPoR-
AL o'eRIEN'S STORY.
Big Anti-Administration Witness In
Philippines Investigations Runs Up
Disproves Every Assertion of
Cruelty n Wrong Doing.

Washington. May 2S.-Capt. MELON
Glu. 'ormerly of the Twenty-siXth vol
ulteer ialaIt y, one of the officers ac-
cpsed in Corporal O'Brien's testimony
was before the Philippine committee
OF the senate Monday. He denied all
Of the allegations made by O'Brian
and said O'Brlen was elsewhere at the
times Re claimed to have been present.
Mcdonald said that American officers
had not violated a Spanish woman nor
other women to his knowledge.
He also denied the statement by
OBlien that he lMcDonald) and a
number OF other Offices misbchayci
themselves at q native dance He show
ed that at the time alleged Maj. Cook.
one of the officers named. and himself
were on duty elsewhere.
truce and the burning of Il woman and
child by his command was anothcr
story by O'Brien that he denied. He
said O'Brien was a troublesome soldier
rom the fist.
CAP. Mcdonald. who is from Char
lestown. Mass, said he had no doubt
Donald referred in Corporal O'Brieu
testimony. He admitted having seen
the water cure administered at Igbaras.
but asserted hat O'Brien was at San
joaquin. 80 miles away, at the time.
Witness said he went to the Philip.
pines in 1899 AID had been there IS or
20 months.
Senator Lodee-"Do you know any
thing of the violation of the person of
a Spanish woman by American officers,
as testified to by O'Brien?"
Cart. McDonald-"No such circum-
stance as that ever occurred, at that
time or any other. from the begin
ming to the end of my stay in the Phil.
ippines, aud have lever known of a
Spanish woman or any other woman
being violated by an 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 a son of the mayor OF Igbaras. A
brother Of the woman's husband. he
said, had been made a cripple for life
by Montour's band of %ladrones. and the
husbands father, when he died, had
been dragged about the streets by
Montour himself. This woman, he said
had given valuable information to Ser
geant Davis of his company concern
ing the movement of the insurgents.
But, the witness added, this women
never had been maltreated by the
Americans.
Regarding O'Brien's statement that
Mcdonald and other officers had de-
meaned themselves d~isgracefully at a
native dance at San Joaquin, Capt.
Mcdonald said:
That statement is a deliberate lie
from beginning to end. Maj. Cook,
whose name is given as that Of one of
the officers present on that occasion,
al on duty at the town Of Jaro, 60
miles distant, at the time the dance Is
said to have occurred. and I was IN
duty at Migoon."
Capt. Mcdonald also fatty contra
dicted O'Brien's statement to the effect
that he OF any other officers of the
company had withheld from the troops
the rations to which they were entitled.
In that connection he called attention
to the fact that the captain Of a COM
pany never handles the fund for the
purchase of supplies needed by his COM
mand. He also declared that it was
not true that the bread received for
the company had been sold. THE sold
iers." he said. "had fresh bread every
day in the week that we could bake It,"
AS to the statement that the insur-
gents had put a price on his head be-
cause of cruelty, Capt. Mcdonald said
he never had heard of hat fact, II it
was a fact. II imagine" he said, that
the insurgents would have shot Il
OLlCtT vi Lie AllCI Sdu ~ Liy, 90 /
would have shot any i%nsurgent officer
who would not surrender, but that there
was any price upon my head l had no
evidence, and I went about freely and
alone among the natives at all times"
He also denied that he ever had
struck a prisoner over the head with
a revolver, as O'Brien had charged.
"If" he said, "a prisoner had not done
as ordered, 1 should have shot him in
stead of striking him."
Speaking Of the treatment Of peace
able natives by the Americans in the
Philippines, Capt. Mcdonald said it
was like the treatment Of a child by
his father.
The witness also testified concern
ing the capture of the barrio of Lanog,
In connection with which O'Brien had
said that an unarned boy had been
fired upon by the entire command. that
three old men, two OF them bearing a
flag of truce, had been shot down and
that a woman and two children had
been burned to death. He denied all
the statements detailing these suppos-
ed circumstances, but said It was true
that the barrio had been captured and
burned. It was a stockaded strong.
hold OF ladrones, set on a hill and con-
sidered inaccessible while the Span
iards controlled the country. When