Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-07
PREDICTION OF TROUBLE
HEARSAY EVIDENCE GIVEN TO
SENATE COMMITTEE.
Resumption Of Investigation Into the
Brownsville Affair - Railway
Conductor Tells of Threats.

| The senate committee on military affairs
| which Is investigating the Brownsville al
| Tray, heard three witnesses today and then
| adjourned until Monday. 1t is believed the
| hearings will be concluded next week unless
| 1t should be decided to send a sub-commit-
| tee to Brownsville late in the fall. Mrs
Emma Leahy continued her testimony to-
| day. She was cross-questioned by Senator
Foraker concerning her experience at the
| time of the ARRAY.
| Mrs. Leahy testified that a colored man
named Bill Henry had told her about hear
ing colored soldiers talking about shooting
up the town. She said Henry said he heard
| q colored soldier tell a man named John
son. who worked in Allisons saloon, not to
come out that night as they were going to
| shoot up the town.
She also testified for the first time that
she saw five or six colored soldiers on the
Ing of the 18th, between 80 and o'clock
cleaning guns. At the same time there was
| an offcer near the gate whom she did not
recognize out who she thought must have
oeeh elther Maj. Penrose Capt Lyon.
Louis II. Cowan, nlneteen-year-old
youth, and member of the Cowan family
mat was so badly shot up: Charles H.
Lunken heimer, a railroad conductor who
mad charge of the train that took the COL
ored soldiers into Brownsville, both testi-
ned The testimony of young Cowan was
not important.
Says Theats Were Made.
Lunkenheimer said he heard the colored
soldiers talking about how they would get
along in Brownsville. One of them after
asking him about the town, and when told
that there were very few colored people
there, asked about the saloons. When told
that there were no saloons for colored peo-
pie he said they would do as they had done
in the place they came from-they would
give them couple biffs and then they
would have no trouble in getting drinks.
! Another of the colored soldiers followed
him to the platform and said that while
| most of the colored soldier boys We're all
right they had few toughs among them
who got them all in trouble.
The committee then adjourned until next
Monday when the taking of testimony will
be resumed.
Saw Negro Soldiers Shoot.
Mrs. Emma Leahy, proprietor Of the
Leahy Hotel in Brownsville, Tex, told the
Senate committee military affairs yes
terday afternoon that she believed she
could identify of the former negro SOL
diers member of the group that shot
up the town. After hearing firing at the
garrison. and seeing the flashes of guns
she said that she sixteen men in
khaki uniforms in the Cowan alley shooting
into the Cowan house. She was in a win
dow Of her hotel about forty feet away,
and two of the men looked up while she
was watching them. Just at that moment
several shots were fired by members of the
group. and she said she saw the two men
distinctly. One was very black. and the
other a mulatto. The latter had large
spots on his face. and she is sure she could
recognize him if she should see him again.
The description of this man tallies with
the appearance of soldier Of Company c,
who was one of the men involved in the
trouble with Mr.. TAFT, a customs inspector.
A subpoena was issued for him at the be-
ginning of the Senate investigation. but he
has not been found. Mrs. Leahy testified
at length concerning the shooting.
Lieut.. Hawkins, who made the micro
scopic examination of bullets and shells
which were sent to the Springfield arsenal.
cor-oborated every point of Gen. Crozier.
who testified at the morning session.