The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17
TIED AND GAGGED
Another Witness Describes Ad-
ministratiOn Of Water Cure.
When the Victim Was Full 1t
Was Pressed Out
By Rubbing Of the Operators
Fists Over His Stomach.
RIIRNING OE A TOWN
BURNING OF A TOWN.
Men, Women and Children
Driven Out of Their Homes.
Another Town Of l2, 900 Inhab-
itants Destroyed.

Washington, April 17.-Edward J.
Davis. of Greenfield, Mass. who was a
sergeant in company NJ, Twenty sixth
volunteer infantry, was before the SEN
ate committee on the Philippines today.
He was present in the convent at Ig
baras, November 27 1900, when the
water cure was administered to the
presidente of the town of Igbaras as
testified to by Sergeant Riley and Pri-
vate Smith, and related the incidents
connected herewith.
He was sworn before being examined,
and was questioned by Senator Raw
Inns He spoke of the arrival of the reg
ulars under the command of Captain
Glenn. He said that under orders from
Captain Glenn he with a squad had
taken the presidente into custody on
November q and had escorted him to
the convent, where the cure was ad-
ministered-
He repeated the story of the torture
of the presidente, adding some details.
The man was, he said about 40 years
of age. When he was taken into the
convent he was asked to give informa-
ton as to whether runners had been
sent out to notify the insurgents of the
arrival of the scouts in the town. Re
fusing to do this, the water detail, con-
sisting of two privates of the Eigh-
teenth infantry, was ordered by Cap
tain Glenn to strip him. The mans
clothing was removed above the waist
and his hands tied behind him, when
the cure was administered by this de-
tail.
He was then" the witness said.
taken to the water tank and thrown
upon his back, and while an interpreter
stood over him a stream of water was
directed into his mouth, which was
held ODen.''
who gave the command for this
treatment"
How was the mans mouth kept
open2"
BY means of a stick, but could. not
see just how it was done"
Continuing the witness said that
when the victim was filed with water
the members of the detail would force
it out Of him by rolling their fists over
his stomach, and that the process was
kept up for about 10 minutes.
He described the second application of
I the cure as previously testified to and
! cOrrOborated Sergeant Riley in the state
ment that the details of this perform
ance were under the charge of Contract
Surgeon Lyons and that capt. Glenn
/ and Lieutenant Conger were both pres
| ent when it occurred.
Mr.. Davis said IN reply to questions
! as to the physical effect of the process
! that the man .squealed" terribly and
/ that his eyes We're bloodshot, but that
{
+ horse and lead the scouts to the noun
/ tains. Afterward he was, the witness
/ said, taken to Iloilo and placed in prison.
The witness also repeated the state
nent that two police officers of the town
/ of Igbaras had been subjected to the
+ water cure.
There was" he added "also native
/ school teacher there who was maltreated
at the same time but the water cure was
4 not administered to him. He was taken
into one of the back rooms of the con-
/ vent by DR.. Lyons who secured the in
4 formation he wanted from him by plac-
I ing two Colts revOlVers to his head, thus
rendering it unnecessary to administer
the cure
Did you see this?''
Mr.. Davis also gave the details Of the
burning of the town of Igbaras which
+ he said contained about 1000 people but
no business place. All except about IS
| houses were destroyed and men, women
| and children were forced out indiscrirn-
/ inately
Senator Burrows: who gave the or
/ der to burn the town ?"
The witness: Capt. Glenn"
ITO whom did he give it?"
Lieutenant Conger- He told the lieu
tenant to burn the town.
Did YOU hear him?"
/ "I did,
Did he say why it should be burned?''
He did not"
The witness also said that a neighbor-
ing town containing abollt $4,000 people
had been burned, but that he did not
know who had given the order for it's
| destruction.
He stated in reply to a question that
! the torture in all the instances men
toned had been conducted by regular
/ soldiers. and that they had not been
/ participated in by the members of his
regiment, the Twenty-sixth volun-
MY orders were.' he said. ito treat
/ the natives kindly, and so far as I OBJ
served the soldiers generally so treated
them with the exceptions I have men
| toned"
He added that the presidente had
/ been traitor to the American cause,
and that the other natives did not gen
! orally seem to have any sympathy for
/ them. Mr.. Davis said he had been in
/ CHARGE of a detachment of Is men in
/ the town of Igbaras for several months
/ before the arrival OF the regulars and
4 also for some time afterWard. and that
/ he had naver had any trouble what
4 ever with the nativss He had talked
/ with the regular soldiers about the
water cure and had been given to un-
derstand that its administrator was
| not of rare occurrence, but said they
i had not given names of persons or
/ places. He replied to Senator Lodge
/ that he knew of the murder of several
of the members of company F of his
/ regiment by natives at another point.
! but it had been his understanding that
/ they We're killed by Iadrones rather
/ than by the town authorities, as Col.
| Dickman had reported