The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-27
M'DONkzO' IS
 y0I GUILTY
 $S DcAles All of 0'Brlen's
 Statements. NO WOMAN MALTREATEn
NO WOMAN MALTREATEl
Saw the Water Cure Ad- rninistered Only Once.
Story of Murder of old Men DsaFing Flags of Truce Absolutely. un- founded-No Bad Conduct
 at Dance.

Washington, May 26.|Before the senate Committee on Philippines today. Captain Mcdonald, who is from Charlestown, Mass, said he had no doubt that he wps tne Capt. Frederick Mcdonald referred to in Corporal o.Brien's testimony He admitted having seen the water cure ad- ministered at 1gbaras. but asserted that UBrien was at San Joaquin, thirty miles away. at the time. The one case was the only time he ever saw the water cure ad- ministercd.
 Senator Lodge-Do you know anything of the violation of the person of Span ish woman by American officers. as testl- fled to by O Brien?
 Captain McDonald-No such circuna- stances 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 Spanish woman or any other woman being yio- lated by an American officer
 The witness went on to say that he sup posed the woman that o'Brien had named in this connection was a wife of son of
 
 woman's. husband. he said, had been made a cripple for life by Montour's band of
 Ladrones and the body of the husband . father, when he died had been dragged about the streets by Montour. Woman Not Maltreated. This woman. he said, had given yalu- able information to Sergeant Davis, of his company. concerning the movements of the insurgents. But the witness added that this woman never had been mal- treated by the Americans.
 Regarding O OBrien's statement. that Mo Donald and other officers had demesned dance at San Joaquin. Captain Mcponsld
 said;s ."This statement is a deliberate lis | from beginning to end. Major Cook whose name Is given as that of one cf the | officers present on that occasion. was on | duty at the town of Jaro. sixty miles | distant. at the lime the dance is said to have occurred, and I was on duty at Migoon' t- s Fl This dance was said to have occurred at the home of the President of the town
 of San Joaquin, and the mention of that individual brought to the mind of Cap. | tain Mcdonald an incident which, he said, had occurred when he first visited the I town The Presidente had invited him to breakfast. and,. after he had partaken of that meal, he became violently i'll. A physician pronounced the symptoms to be due to poisoning, but as some of the mem bers of the Presidente's family also were similarly sick, 1t was supposed at the
 time that the poisoning was accidental
 and the matter was dropped.
 Reason He Was Not There. T state that as a reason why l could not have been at the dance" he said. and
 he added that he had later received evi.
 dence that this native oficial was con. tributing to the insurgent cause.
 Captain Mcdonald also hatly contra.
 dicted O'Brien's statement to the effect
 that he or any other officers of the com. pany had withheld from the troops thu
 rations to which they were entitled. He also declared that 1t was not true l that the bread received for the company
 had been sold. He denied that he had ever struck a prisoner on the head witf
 a revolver as O'Brien had charged. -If,'
 he said. "a prisoner had not done as or, dered, I should have shot him instead oi
 striking him.. Gg{ The witness also testified concerning ths capture of Barrioof Lanog in connection with which O'Brien had said that an un.
 armed boy had been fired on by the en,
 tire 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. Ht
 denied all the statements. but said it wat true that the barrio had been captured ! and burned. It was a stockaded strong l hold of I.adrones The Americans occu, pied the town for two hours. and then
 after giving ample notice of their inten
 tions. set fire to the place. If any persor | was burned to death, he never heard ol | the fact.