The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-15

| Thirteenth streets testifies to hesring | the men come east on Thirteenth ana | go up washington street and Ire
 yolley and tsstifsd to :carsyinSi ,rs nsi,sy el 1 was fired. indicating "a return down | Washington and around into Thirteenth street Of the squad. The testimony oI Srs firin9 0s,eem as the stark house the sauad l proceeded up to Twelfth stfeet, then l out Twelfth which would bring them
 te the mouth of & the aiisy ,Sn wnsss ssy. ah be | saw them firing toward the river on | Twelfth street and this would prinG | them into conjunction with the other l of Thirteehth street and the alley and | proceeded ID the alley to Tilimsn sa-
 shet Up saloon. Coming now to the latter squad that | went to TilIman's saloon and their acts there they were in the ssio9n 9n1y 3nns spanish paper published at Brownsviile, whose evidence had to be interpreted I and another. Mexican named Alanis. | loon after the shooting began and had the barracks. Aianis, and Precidic
 ysrS Of sseass s saloon ad aheh s ! the alley through a gate or door.
 This yard seems to have been " very
 well iishtsd with several ;a lamps. ,s Tnsre sr | the saloon and the alley gate. Natus, | as he heard the firing put up the shut l ters in front of the saloon on Elizabeth street and then came back through the l court yard. in order to close the slley l gate or door. which stood open Alanis | who was in the water closet. took ref see Natus as he came out of the saloon door into the court yard. Freddie fol- l lowed Natus out and stood in the court the @ alley gate se and n shot Natus who had reached the cistern. on his way to the gate and fell over the cfstern Precidio
 wounded in the hand and had bull fled that he saw the men who did the shooting in the lights that were in the court yard and that they were ne- by the admission on his part that in a previous statement at the inquest before the grand jury and elsewhere men who did the shooting to be negro soldiers, but he seeks to, explain this by the fact that he was not asked,
 garrison near Elizabeth Street and all the way up the alley from the garrison road to Twelfth Street, and especially at the Cowen house. at the Leahy Ho- Saloon and at Twelfth Street near the alley. They were also found in front of the Stark house on Washington
 a5sd sos wneh o Tas tss snot t m & JSs MayS Ss morning of the shooting at the corner of Miiler's Hotel. The rest were found early in the morning of the next day used to hold five cartridges in the gun together, and a bandolter, or cartridge case to be siung over the shoulder. compsaS some Dy shes sss en loaded cartridges and two or three clips were collected, and were subject ed to expert examination by military officers atb Fort Sam Houston and by Captain Rice and General Crozier of the Ordnance Bureau They proved to be, all of them, ammunition, with marks tursd exclusiveiy for the U. s. Gov- ernment, and only for use in the Spring field rife, model 1903, with which the battalion at A Fort Brown M was ,s s.sr armed. ,, Lt not fit in any gun known in the mar ket, not the Krag or any other gun, military or sporting, known to the ex- chester rife of the model of 1905, but that the cartridges were so insensitive as not to explode under the hammer of to receive cartridges of this size ! so that the cartridges which were manu- factured and sold for, the Winchester 1seS rife had dsTsIs and ScS ISrs sen Fly distinguished them in appearance from the Government ammunition for the Springfield rife.
 SRrfngaelds Were Used.
 It is therefrom conclusiyely estab- lished that no guns but the Springfield rifle could have discharged the cart ridges, the shells, of which were found the morning of August IA.
 Three bullets were extracted, one in the presence of Major Blacksom at the from the Yturia house and one by MT. Garza from his own house on the south east corner of the alley and Fourteenth the weight and size of bullets used in the, Springfield ammunition and bears four marks of the Hands" or raised
 nE Tss rna tRs Of Ss Sh sss
 fe 1905, into which the size of the, Springfield rife would 1t, has six lands, so that the bullets could not have been fired out. of the Winchester rife: The bullets. however, were about the size. of the Krag-Jorgensen bullet and had the same make of lands, which Is four sheIlsi would not enter the Krag cham Der by an inch and the evidence indi- cates that there were but one Krag in the neighborhood of Brownsville and tified. e.~
 The evidence is conclusive that there were no guns exoept. the Springfield guns which would discharge the bullets from the cartridges found. When this evidence is carefully considered, it is a conclusive demonstration that the firing must have been made by men with the rifles of the Springfield 1908 model. The only rifles of this kind in or near Brownsville were in the pos- session of the soldiers of the three companies of the 18th infantry. The suggestion that after the hurried shooting which was done almost at IF o'clock and was fired certainly in ten or fifteen minutes, those who did the shooting could have had some other have picked up the cartridge shells of that gun which were extracted and thrown onto the ground as the shoot ing progressed. and could have then planted" shells of the Springfield rife. obtained from the target, range twenty miles away, certainly does not :