The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-12-19
BROWNSVILLE CASE
is SENT TO SENATE
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shots being aimed at a guest sitting
by a window. They shot into a SAL
loon. killing the bartender and woun-
ding another man. At the same time
other raiders fred into another house
in which women and children were
sleeping, two of the shots going thru
the mosquito bar over the bed in
which the mistress of the house and
her two children were lying. Several
other houses We're struck by bullets
1t was at night and the streets of the
town are poorly lighted, so that none
of the individual raiders were recog-
ni2ed; but the evidence of many wit
nesses of all classes was conclusive
to the effect that the raiders were
negro soldiers. The shattered bullets,
shells, and clips of the government
rifles, which were found on the
ground, are merely corroborative. SO
are the bullet holes in the houses;
some of which 1t appears must, from
the direction. have been fired from
the fort just at the moment when
the soldiers left It. Not a bullet hole
appears in any of the structures Of
the fort.
The townspeople were completely
surprlzed b. the unprovoked and
murderous savagery of the attack.
as deliberate murderers, who did
start to finish. They met with no
substantial resistance, and one and
all who took part in that raid stand
murder one man, who tried to muir
der others, and who tried 10 murder
women and children. The act was
one OF horrible atrocity, and so far
as | am aware, unparalleled for in
fanny in the annals of the United
States army.
The white officers of the compa-
mics were completely taken by sur
prize, and at first evidently believed
that the firing meant that the towns
people were attacking the soldiers.
II was not until or O'Clock in the
morning that any of them became
aware Of the truth. have directed a
careful investigation into the con.
duct of the officers. to see If any of
them were b,ameworthy, and have
approved the recommendation of the
war department that two be brought
before a court-martial.
As to- the non-commissioned Off
GERS and enlisted men, there can be
no doubt whatever that many were
necessarily prlvy. after if not before
the attack, to the conduct of those
who took actual part in this murder
GUS riot. | refer to Major Blocksom's
report for proof Of the fact that
certainly some and probably all of
the non-commissioned officers in
charge of quarters who were respon-
sible for the gun-racks and had keys
thereto in their personal possession
knew what men were engaged in the
attack.
Major Penrose, in command of the
post, in his letter (included In the
appendix gives the reasons why he
was reluctantly convinced that some
of the men under hlm-as he thinks,
from Z to 10-got their rifles, slipt
out of quarters to do the shooting.
and returned to the barracks with
out being discovered, the shooting
all occurring within two and a half
short blocks Of the barracks. II was
possible for the raiders to go from
the fort to the farthest point of fir
ing and return in less than ten min.
utes, for the distance did not ex-
coed $50 yards.
Such are the facts of this case
General Nettleton, in his letter here
with appended, states that next door
TO where he is writing in Browns
vile is small cottage where a chill
dren's party had just broken up be-
fore the house was riddled by Unit
ed States bullets, fired by United
States troops. from United States
Springfield rifles, at close range, with
he purpose of killing or manning the
inmates, including the parents and
children who were still In the WELL
lighted house and whose escape from
death under such circumstances was
astonishing.