Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1907-03-31

Most Of His Testimony corroborsssd
That Of his Men.

Washington. March 2s.--Lieutenant
George Carson Lawrason. who was In
command OF Company d. Twentyfif'h
infantry on the night Of the ARRAY ~
Brownsville, sa on tae stand nearly
all OF Wednesday in the Investigation
BY the senate committee on military
affairs. On most all practical points
his testimony corroborated that given
BY the men Of his command and also
that given by the men OF Companies
o and d. He was shown bullets taken
from the walls Of houses In Browns
VILE. but could not say whether they
had been fired from the Springfield
rifles with which the Twenty.fifth was
eouipped or whether they had been
DISCHARGED from Krag-Jorgensen cart
ridges by Krag rifles or carblnes. ne
further gave testimony that the smells
picked up In the streets may have been
discharged on the range ut Fort Mo.
brara and carried TO Fort Brown and
also that he was certain that two Of
the rifles identified by expert exami
nation Of the shells as having been
used 10 fire a certain lot OF the cart
ridges. had not been out of the chests
IN which they had been packed AZ
Fort Niobrara.
He told the committee that he was
sure he would have detected II II any
Of the rifles had been missing and he
was equally sure that the chests had
not been tempered with since they
were packed nj Fort Nlobrara. The
report OF experts who made -
microscopic examination Of she''s
picked up In Brownsville. identified
one lot Of these shells as having been
fired from one OF the guns known 10
have been in the arms chests
All OF the guns. he said. were In
spected the following morning when
drill was called and the ammunition
was inspected as we'll Lawrason told
the committee that he satisfied him.
self that no guns of his company had
been used the night before and that
the men had all OF their ammunition.
Senator Foraker called for the six
bullets taken from the walls OF the
houses In Brownsville and sent 10 the
committee ms n part Of the Purdy tes.
timony. He had the bullets laid be-
fore the witness and Mr.. Lawrason ey
.amlned them closely, but could not tell
whether they were fired from
Springfield or Krag rifle. The Ohio
senator called for the report OF the OK.
perts who examined thirty.three shells
offered In evidence in the message Of
President Roosevelt 10 the senate end
which were picked mp In Brownsville.
First. the senator took M the group
Of shells which bore evidence of hav.
ing been extracted from gun or rifles
more than once. as n they had failed
IN one rifle and then we're fired In an
other Lawrason said that while ~
the rifle renge at Fort Nlobrara thu
guns we're new and the bolts OF tho
guns cased in oil and that frequently
they missed fire there He said th-'
when this oil was wiped out ard 'he
men had rot used 10 the new guns
there had been no more trouble.
The witness explained that shells
picked M on the range are saved and
iecapned and are then shipped baci, 10
the arsenal He said that nj Fort
Niobrara there was something wron-
with Company rs decays and the
shells. more than thousand In num-
Der. we're put In a box and shipped 10
Fort Brown 10 be decanped there he
did not know what had become Of the
box after the arrival OF the company
AZ Brownsville.