The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-05-30
SAYS CORPORAL O'BRlEN LIED.
Capt. Frederick Mcdonald Gives
Some Emphatic Testimony.
Before the Senate Committee an
American Omcers Denies Stories
That Soldiers Were Cruel
and immoral.

Washington, May 27-Capt. McDon-
aid, from the Twenty-sixth volunteer
infantry, one Of the officers accused
in Corporal O'Brien's testimony, was
before the Philippine committee Of
the senate yesterday. He denied all
the allegations made by O'Brien and
said O'Brien was on duty elsewhere
at the time he claimed to have been
present. Mcdonald said that Ameri-
can officers had not violated a Span
ish woman nor other women to his
knowledge.
Capt. Mcdonald, who is from
Charlestown, Mass, said he had no
doubt that he was the Capt. Frederick
Mcdonald referred to in Corporal
O'Brien's testimony. He admitted
having seen the water cure admins
tered at Igbaras, but asserted that
O'Brien was at San Joaquin, 80 miles
away, at the time. The one case
named was the only time he ever saw
the water cure administered.
Senator Lodge: "Do you know
anything Of the violation of the per-
son of Spanish woman by American
officers, as testified to by O'Brien?''
Capt. 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
Philippines, and I have never known
Of Spanish woman or any other
woman being violated by an Ameri-
can officer
Regarding O'Brien's statement that
Mcdonald and other officers had de-
meaned themselves disgracefullv at
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, was on duty at the
town of JarO, go miles distant, at the
time the dance is said to have Oc-
CURED, and I was on duty at Mi
gOOn."
Capt. Mcdonald also fatty contra
dicted O'Brien's statement to the eff
feet that he or 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 company never handles
the fund for the purchase Of sup
plies needed by his command.
Speaking OF the treatment Of
peaeeable 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 unarmed
boy had been fired upon by the en-
tire command, that three old men.
two of them bearing a flag of truce,
had been shot down and that wOm-
an and two children had been burned
to death He denied all the-state-
ments detailing these supposed cir
cumstances, but said it was true that
the barriO had been captured and
burned. 1t was a stOckaded strong
hold of IadrOnes, set on n hill and
considered inaccessible while the
Spaniards controlled the country.
When his troops approached it the
natives fred first, but the place was
taken The Americans occupied the
town. for two hours and then, after
giving ample notice Of their inten-
tiOns, had set fire to the place. If
any person was burned to death he
never had heard Of the fact Nor
had he ever given any orders while
approaching the place to take no
prisoners.