The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-27
SAYS 0'BRIEN'S
STATEMENT Is
DELIBERATE LIE
Captain Mcdonald Denies Al
legged Atrocities in Philippines
O'BRIEN ALWAYS KICKING
Offers Proof of His AIibi in
Regard to Himself,
O'BRIEN ALWAYS KICKING


try, one of the officers accused in Corpor-
al o'Brien-s testimony mas before the
Philippine committee OF the senate today.
He denied all allegations made by o'Brien
and said e'Brien was or duty elsewhere
at the time reclaimed 10 have been pres
ent Mr. Mcdonald said that american
officers had not violated a Spanish woman
nor women 10 his knowledge. He also
denied the statement made by O'Brien
that he C,dcDonaid) ard number OF 9TH
er officers. misbehaxed themselves at a
native dance. lie showed that at the time
alleged. Major Cook. one of the officers
named. and himself were on duty else
where. The shooting OF bearers OF flags
of truce and the burning of woman
and child by his command was another
story by o'Bhen that he denied.
Captain Mcdonald said o'Brien was
troublesome soldier from the first
Captain McDonald, who IS from
Charlestown, Mass. said he bad no doubt
that&he was the captain referred to in
Corporal O'Brien's testimony He ad-
mitted having seen the water cure ad-
ministered at Igbaras but asserted that
O'Brien was at San Joaqin, thirty miles
away. at the time. Witness said he
went to the Philippines in 1899 and had
been there eighteen or twenty months.
Senator Lodge: DO you know any
thing of the violation OF the person of
Spanish woman by American officers, as
testified 10 by OBrien?"
Captain Mcdonald: "No such circuu-
stance 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 a Spanish
woman or any other woman being vio-
lated 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 son of the mayor of Igbaras. A
brother of the womau's husban. he said.
had been made cripple for life by Mon
tours band Of Ladrones and the body
OF 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 concerning
the movement of the insurgents. But.
the witness added. this woman never had
been maltrested by the Americans.
Regarding O'Brien's statement that Nc
Donald and other officers had deneaned
themselves disgracefully at native
dance at San joaquin, Captain McDon-
aid said:
"The statement is a deliberate lie from
beginning to end. jor Cook. whose
name is given as that Of one OF the or
hoers present or that occasion. was on
duty at the town of Jaro. sixty miles
distant. at the time the dance IS said TO
have occurred. and l was on duty at
Migoon.
Captain McDonald also fatty contra
dicted OBrien's statement TO the effect
that he or any other officers OF the com
pany had withheld from the troops the
rations TO which they were entitled.
In that connection ne called attention
70 the fact that captain Of a company
never handles the funds for the pur-
chase Of supplies needed by his com
msnd.
He also declared that It was not true
that the bread received for the com
pany had been old The soldiers" he
said. had fresh bread every day in the
week that we could bake it."
AS 10 the statement that the insur-
gents had put price or his head be-
cause Of his cruelty, Captain Mcdonald
said he never had heard OF that fact.
II it was a fact
Il imagine" he said. that the IN
would have shot any oficer %
the American army. rs ] would have shot
any insurgent officer who would not
surrender. but that there was any price
upon my head ! had no evidence. and 7 I
went about freely and alone among the
natives at all times"
He also denied that he had ever struck
a prisoner over the head with revol-
yer as OBrieu had charged. .If.n he
said. a prisoner had not done ss I or
ssred I should have shct him instead of
striking him.
natives BY the Americans in the PhsIip- 4
pines. Captain Mcdonald said Il was ike I
he Treatment CT a child bv his father
The witness aiso testifsi concerning 4
The capture % the BarTto q I.anog. II 1
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mat an unarned boy had been fired /
sFcn ~ the ertire consn5ands that three 4
I'd men. three q them bearing Tag q .
Tsce had bcen shot down. and thstfz 4
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10 death. he dazsed ~ tAf statements +
detailing theze suppcsed eireuEastsncas.
1ut said that 4 Vas true that TIE aar-
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