Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-15

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they we're soldiers.
The witness Mcdonald, an elderly
man. q carpenter by trade. living mai
y block from the garrison wall ~
Adams street TO The east OF washing
ton. va awakened by the hing'
came down TO the garrison road. li'
saw shots fired from the inside of The
< garrison, one from the gallery Of one
OF the barracks and another from me
ground. lie then saw twenty or mof'
men assembled In front OF the gar
,iyan wan on the garrison road near
the garrison gate, under the ighls o.
That gate. nearly opposite Elizabfth
street. He saw them divide into TWO
squads. one going west toward Eilza~
beth street., aud the telegraph station.
ana the other squad going to the aiiey
laround Martinez house. He lost slsnt
OF the squad going toward the gal
land telegraph station and reiterated
from the squad advancing toward ths'
cowen and Miller houses. He recos-
MED them as United states colored
soiaiers. There were two lights GA
either side Of the pillars Of the gate
%opposIte The DOT OF Elizabeth stree.
q. ~. Kendall, who, with his wife,
occupied a room IA the second story
or the telegraph station. Was awak-
ened bv two shots. He looked u af
The window toward The garrison wall
and saw from fifteen 10 twenty men
moving around between the barracks
land the wall. They We're negro SOL
diers and were shown 10 be such ia
the light Of the lamps Of the garrison
lgate. He could not Tell that they
were armed except that he saw en-
flashes from the discharged guns.
The witness Schfieber, q boy 20
years old. living on the garrison road
.ut M fhn ullna r4aVIuHE I'm tpEI.
VAS in bed when the first shot was
fred; got up and came out onto tho
sidewalk and saw a couple of volleys
fired from inside the garrison. lie
heard the men walking on the bare
racks porches, and heard some onf
say; Where Is the damned stun ges
1t going
Tamayo. scayenger Of y company,
testified that he was near the garrison
gate. He heard a shot toward the
garrison wall, but thinks It was OUT
side the wall.
Proceeding north. now TO Four
.teenth and the Cowan house on the
southwest corner Of the alley ana
Fourteenth street, II appears that there
had been a children's party az the
rowan house. AT the time OF the
shooting there were in the house only
Mrs. Cowan. the six children ana the
maid, Mrs. Cowan and her daughters
were In the dining room. There were
lights IN the house. As the Trims ap-.
proaclied Mrs. Cowan called all hei
children and rushed to her room and
put them under the bed, while The
maid rushed 10 the windows Of the
boys bedroom, near the alley 10
close the windows. As the maid got
10 the window she saw the men come
opposite to the hous ia the alley, ana
by the light from the Kitchen recos
nized them as negro soldiers. Tlif
Cowan house Was shot full OF buiiAt
holes. The dining Don lamp waa
shattered by 4 bullet aud another but
let broke a plate glass IN a wardrobe
aud was found behind the glass. Mrs.
Cowan and Louis and Gertrude Cowah
described the working of the guns
and the crashing Of the bullets.
Garsea lived In the Garsea house,
lust across the alley. He testified 10
the shooting Into his house. but was
not abb 70 say who did II.
on the northwest corner of the alley
and Fourteenth street was the back OF
the Ichhy hotel There were three
rooms In all that looked out into
Thirteenth street toward the Cowan
house. one room was on the corner
of the alley and was occupied by Her
bert Elkins. The next room was oc-
cupied by Judge Parks. The third
room was an empty room. into
which Mrs. Leahy. the proprietress,
went when She heard the firing. Judge
ParkH is dead, and the only evidence
from him is a letter which he wrote
10 his wife the day after the shooting.
Mrs. IeAhy testines that she heard
the firing from the garrison and that
from her window she was able 10 o
across tho block to the garrison ana
saw the upper barracks Of y company
and from there saw the lHshcs Of
shots fred from hat porch. Thee
three witnesses with others who saw
them at other places, describe the
move ments of the men who did th"
shooting as being under order and
having the march of soldiers-that a.
In hles-with a leader who gave the
word of command. These three wit
nesses say they were able, without the
slightest doubt to rec, gnize the men
who did the shooting as negro sol
dlers Ia khaki uniform The wit
nesses described With miuuteness the
proceedings OF the men who did the
shooting ana the number ct bullets
that were fred in the middle of the
street, some of the bullets striking the
rear OF the Leahy hotcL.
While the men who did the shooting
were at the Cowan house, Lieutenant
Dom lngueg, a policeman OF twenty
years service and one OF his men,
Padren. had come down from Wash
ington to Fourteenth street and stood
at the corner of those we streets and
saw the shooting and recognized those
who did the shooting as uniformed
men. AS the men went up the allcS
Dominique and Padron proceeded la
"A parallel line up Washington street
to Thirteenth and turned Into Thir-
teenth street, Domiuguez met one of
his policemen and these three pro-
ceeded toward the intersection III the
alley and Thirteenth street. Mean
while the squad proceeded up the
alley, passing the house of Or Throne
q physician.
nr. Thornv was aroused by the
shooting and heard the men go by his
house in the alley AS he lay in bed not
more than ten cor fifteen feet from
where the men We're. HI heard ,htir
conversation and heard them ut err
words indicating their desire To sBoui
somebody who was going hy. He tes-
tilted with great certatniy thnt he
voices were the voices OF ncgruts.
A short distance beyond h Horne
house the men who did he shooting
came TO the Miller hotel, ON the south
west corner of the alley and m tr-
teeuth street, and there they saw
Lieutenant Dominguez of The police,
passing along Thirteenth st"ect and
Two volleys were fired hy them al him
aud his horse. Dominique tsstih'l