New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
BROWNSVILLE RESULTS
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testified before the committee Captain Macklin
had court martial hanging over him. and all
'ie other officers knew they might be court
maj tla4ied And. moreover, the officers merely
PeSseu lhelr personal opinion the subject
as distinguished from direct evidence. The
vi the 10Th Infantry also expressedt the
| oPiihon that ie negroes did not do the shoot
'ns' out they also showed prejudice against the
people OF Brownsville. Only testimony for tbe
oefence was taken up to May II. when the COM
| nittee resumed its hearings after thrtv-nina
| day recess
SAW NEGROES DO SHOOTING
Beginning with May a. upward of thirty wit
nesses have sworn that they saw negroes in uni
iprIn and carrying rifles doing the shooting All
Vi these witnesses testified that the shooting be-
San Ut the fort and continued as the men ran
UP the alley to Tillman's saloon, and that the
| shots were fired from high power rifles Many
VI the witnesses saw the soldiers clearly enough
10 know that they were negroes. The chief of
ponce saw the men at close range and heard
them say: There he goes Shoot the " &"
Ahese words were heard by at least half n dozen
Witnesses who swear that they were uttered bv
negro The men fired ar Dominguez. killing
his horse and injuring his hand so badly that II
was necessary to amputate 1t, and the experi
ehce and shock have probably destroyed the old
mans health. 0
A man made Preciado was in Tillman's saloon
he followed the bartender, named Natus 10 the
door, and remained there while the bar+arder
started 10 cross the brilliantly lighted summer
garden and close the alley gates. AS he did SO
lne negro troopers appeared at the gate and
snot the bartender dead 5 he reached the centre
oL the garden, a second shot going through
Freciados coat A nursemaid in Mrs Cowan's
mouse, which was brilliantly lighted went to tho
window TO close the shutters, and clearly saw
lhe soldiers. and swore that they were negroes
the soldiers plainly. She counted sixteen and
heard one of them say: There's Katie Leahy;
shoot her" Another said: NO shoot straight
ahead She swore that of the negroes she
saw IN the raiding party she later saw in Cap
tain Lyons company when 1t patroled the
streets. The following morning, very early, she
saw half a dozen soldiers on the gallery of
Company barracks cleaning their guns. When
asked how she knew they cleaning their
guns she said she was the daughter of a soldier.
and was familiar with the process.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall, who live over the tele-
graph station Immediately across the road
from the fort. swore that they the soldiers
the fort wall. They are citizens of high repute
and there IS not the slightest reason TO doubt
their veracity.
These incidents are selected at random from
the of direct evidence there being many
others who testified with Iucidity and exactness
TO the guilt OF the soldiers.
BULLETS AND SHELLS.
The testimony regarding the bullets and shells
found In the streets and in the houses Of the
citizens is perfectly clear when the essential
less irrelevant evidence and questions The es-
sential portion may be found in the cross exam
ination of General Crozier. which is summarized
as follows, nine bullets and a number Of shells
and clips being in evidence before the commit
tee:
oCould these bullets have been fire fred o271a from
Mauser IS small. being only millinetre cali
o.-could they have been fired out Of a Win
chester or a Remington? A-No, because the KEN EN-
ington has seven lands and the winchester SIX,
while all these bullets bear the marks OF only iou+
Tbe lands are the ridges IN riflng of the
guns When a bullet is fred the lands cut grooves
Q9could they have been fired out of the Spanish
7 metTe MauseGS tG, dAistlaejsb them from bull
lets fred from that rife? A.-Because the spanish
agseT being bel cut or tbsr ss F46oves far up on the
tapering end OF the bullet as do the lands IN tae
SPglfs kssuming that these shells could have been
T9a nTmy Te Could these bullets have been fred
from these shells IN any ot4er rile ,Id NOT have
been nred from any known weapon except tho
Springfield rife
MIR. FORAKERs CONVENTIONS.
While presenting 10 evidence In support ol
such propositions, Senator Foraker has trled 10
establish the theories that the shoouhs d'
tarorynsviIIe was done by % MeXicans, CD the
noIicernen the chief of whom was injured, as
above stated, (3) by ex-polcemen, OF "hohl
tIera are ,9robably not eight living, (4) by SNUG
o-iers IN NV the Texas Rangers. none of whom
were In the vicinity; 90 by cowboys ana % Iy py
farmers from the surrounding country. He could
NOT produce evidence in support OF any one OF
these theories and he was obliged 10 aDanuOH
each in turn. The Senator even propounded mo
theory that Louis Cowan planned ana superlh-
tended the shooting, despite the fact that TWEEN
tv-three shots We're found to have been Ireo
into Cowan's home, where his wife. six children
and a maid were. ,, %
The original assertion that the cliZehs VI
Brownsville fired on the fort was abandoned be
cause there was absolutely nothing 10 support 1t,
and then the Senator put forward the theory that
the citizens fired their own homes.
The tedious and expensive Investigation or the
rrownsville raid has finally established nothing
that was not known to the military authorizes
when the men Of the 25th Infantry were dis
missed without honor. 1t has merely proved
that the shooting was done by the solulers OF
identify the individual culprlts