Richmond planet., 1907-06-08

washington Post. May %, 1901
After hearing three witnesses in
the Brownsville affair yesterday, the
Senate Committee on Military At
fairs adjourned until June 4 at 1
o'clock. During the examination OF
Capt. Hanson Z. Ely, of tho Twenty
sixth Infantry, who was brought be-
fore the committee as an expert.
Senator Foraker succeeded I'm con-
fusing the witness with regard TO
the character of bullets, as he had
done in the case of Mai. Blocksom
the day before.
Just before adjournment Senator
Foraker announced that the bullet
fired through the Tillman saloon,
which was later extracted by Lieut..
LeclSse from n post across the street,
and had been reported lost, has been
recovered and would be offered In
evidence next week.
Cant. Ely, who qualified before
the PenroSe court-martial as an eN-
pert in the use OF army rifles and am
munition, was the chief witness yes
terday. lie explained the manner
OF cleaning the Springfield rifles and
gave II as his opinion that the rifles
could be cleaned in a minute or two
He emphasized his statement by
saying: "You could clean the guns
with your eyes shut" He said that
such a cleaning would be sufficient
TO pass any ordinary inspection.
After testifying that there was a
marked difference between the Krag
bullet and the Springfield bullet,
Capt Ely was shown one each by
Senator Foraker. The Senator held
the shells in his hand, as he had
done yesterday when Mai. Blocksom
was on the stand, and, like Maj.
Blocksom, the witness picked Krag
when asked 20 designate the Spring
field. He was examined by Senator
Foraker concerning the dehections
of bullets fired from high-power ri
fes upon meeting resistance, and he
said that ordinary pine wood would
not defect the bullet in the least.
Upon hearing the testimony OF exc
perts, who made an exhaustive in
vestigation on that question, Capt.
Ely said that he probably was mis-
taken.
William Henry Adams, who drives
an ice wagon in Brownsville, testi-
fed that he heard Voschel, the cor
raj boss at the garrison say that the
Negroes would come out after pay
day and ''shoot up" the town. He
gave corroborative testimony on sew
eral other points. The committee
decided to postpone the recall OF
Maj. Blocksom and Lieut.. Leckie un-
til June 4.
Washington Post, June 5. 1901
Inspector General Darlington, up
on whose recommendation, largely.
the three companies OF colored sol
diers were discharged from the army
for participation in the shooting up
of Brownsville. before the Senate Mil
itary Committee yesterday reiterated
his belief that from five to twenty
men of Companies B, G aud d were
guilty of the outrage. He acknowl-
edged, however, that his examina-
ton OF every man in the companies
had produced nothing to implicate
any particular individuals.
His conviction, Gen. Darlington
said, was based not only on the tes-
timony of the Brownsville citizens,
but also on the bearing of the men
while under examination, they be-
coming "wooden-faced" and non
communicative as soon as the subject
of the riot was broached.
He did not believe, he said, that
there was a regular conspiracy, but
that the affair resulted from a sud
den impulse, aroused among some
of the badly disposed soldiers by their
treatment in Brownsville and depri-
vation of liberty on account or the
assault or Mrs. Evans the night De-
fore. There was, he said, an appar-
eat understanding among the men
concerned TO know as little about the
occurrences of the night as was pos
sible.
WOULD NOT BELIEVE SOLDIERS.
In reply to questions by Senator
Foraker. Gen. Darlington declared
he would not believe the testimony
OF any man IN the battalion. for he
had found almost invariably that
when Il came to question of pro-
tecting one OF their race the colored
people stood together. In connec-
ton with this he mentioned a some
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