Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-27
Never Heard Of American Soldiers Violating
Spanish Woman in Islands,
ONE CASE OF WATER CURE IN TWO YEARS
Brands as Deliberate Lie Charges Against
His Personal Conduct.
PROVES IMPossIBILlTY OF TRUTHFULNEss
Treatment of PeacrabIe Natives by
Americans. He Says. was Like
that Of n Child by Its
Father.

"AHHINIION, May Eb.-IAnt0l0 McDO0-
aid, formerly Of the Twenty-sixth volunteer
infantry, one Of the officers accused 10 Cor
poral o'Brien's testimony. was before the
Philippine commission OF the senate today.
He denied all Of the allegations made by
o'Brlen and said o'Brien was on duty else
where at the times he claimed to have been
present.
Mcdonald said that American ofhcers rad
not violated a Spanish woman nor other
women to his knowledge He also denied
the statement made by o Brien that he INC
Donald) and a number Of other officers mis-
behaved themselves at a native dance. He
showed that at the time alleged Major Cook
one OF the officers named, and himself were
on duty elsewhere.
The shooting Of bearers Of faEs OF truce
and the burning Of a woman and child by
his command was another story by O'Brien
that he denied.
Captain Mcdonald said o'Brien was a
troublesome soldier from the first
Ho is Man Referred to.
Captain Mcdonald, who is from Charles
town, Mass, said he had no doubt that he
was the Captain Frederick Mcdonald re-
ferred to in Corporal o'Brieu's testimony.
He admitted having seen the water cure
~ AbbdAdos buN dtbtIltu ludl
o'Brien was at San Joaquin, thirty miles
away at the time. Witness said he went
TO the Philippines in 1899 and had been
there eighteen or twenty months. 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 thA person Of a Spanish
woman by American oflcers, as testified
to by 0Brien?
Captain Mcdonald: NO such cireum-
stance as that ever occurred at that time
or any other from the beginning to the
end of my stay In the Philippines and
have never known OF a Spanish woman or
any other woman being violated by an
American oficer''
Explains the woman Case.
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
eon of the mayor of Igbaras A brother
OF The woman's husband, he said, had been
made a cripple for life by Montours band
OF ladrones, and the body of the husbands
father, when he died. had boon dragged
about the streets by Montour himself. This
woman. he said, had given valuable In
formation to Sergeant Davis in his COM
pany concerning the movements OF the in
surgents. But the witness added. this
woman never had been maltreated by the
Americans.
Regarding o'Brieu's statement that Nc
Donald and other oficers had demeaned
themselves disgracefully at a native dance.
Captain Mcdonald said:
"That statement is a deliberate lie from
beginning TO end. Major Cook, whose
name is given as that Of one of the
officers present on 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."
Proves an AIibI.
This dance was said to have occurred at
the home OF the presidente Of the town Of
San Joaquin. and the attention OF that indi-
Nidual brought TO the mind. of Captain Me-
Donald an incident which he said had oe-
Cured when he FIRST visited the town. The
presidente had invited him to breakfast,
and after he had partaken Of that meal be
became violently ILL., A physician pro-
nounced the symptoms to be due to pois-
onIng. but as some OF the members OF the
presidents's family also were similarly sick
II was supposed at the time that the
poisoning was accidental and the matter
was dropped.
II state that as / reason why ! could
not nave been at the dance" he said, and
he added that he later had received EVIL
dence that this native official was contribut-
ing To the insurgent cause.
CAPTAIN Mcdonald also hatly contra
dicted oBrien's statement to the effect that
he or any other ofheers of the company had
withheld from the troops the rations TO
which they we're entitled. In that connec-
tion he called attention to the fact that a
captain OF a company never handles the
fund for the purchase Of the supplies
needed by his command.
Fresh Bread Every Day.
He also declared that 1t was not true that
the bread received for the company had
been sold.
The soldiers" he said. had fresh bread
every day In the week that we could bake
It."
As 70 the statement that the insurgents
had put a price on his head because OF his
cruelty. Captain McDonsld said he never
had heard OF that fact. II IL was fact.
II imagine" he said, "that the insur-
gents would have shot any oficer Of the
American army, as would have shot any
insurgent oficer who would not surrender,
but that there was any price upon my head
had no evidence. and ] went about freely
and alone among the natives at all times. -
He also denied that he had ever struck
prisoner over the head with . revolver, as
o'Brien had charged.
IT." he said. "a prisoner had not done
as ordered should have shot him instead
of striking him"
same az PsteFnaI Treatment.
speaking OF the treatment OF the peace
able natives by the Americans in the Phil
ippines Captain Mcdonald said IL was like
the treatment Of a child by his father,
The witness also testified concerning the
e1Pture OF the barrio Of los. in connection
With which o,Brien had said that an un-
armed boy had been fred on by the entire
Command. that three old men. two OF then
bearing nag OF truce. had been shot down
aad that woman and two children had
oeen burned 10 death. He denied all tbs
statements detailing these supposed cir,