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

screen through which they we're look
ing and went into the ceiling
through into the room just above nc
Odinis room. Mrs. Odin says that the
bullet went through her hair thar
1.-The man who fired with the gun faised
could not have been much more Than
twelve feet from where they were
standing. Mrs. Odin testified that the
man Who fred was d negro. They
also testified that the men came up
the alley In hles OF two and that IN
The light from the street lamps and
flashes Of the guns they were able 10
count twelve and that they were all
negroes IN uniform.
other guests Of the hotel. q ioc0-
motive engineer and q locomotive fire.
man. testified 10 seeing negro soldiers
cross the streets.
The clerk Of the hotel and y guess
OF the hotel heard the working OF
the guns. the extracting of the car
tridges and The guest. who was Very
near to where the men were, heard
the voices IN the discussion over DO-
ninguez, aud recognized the voices al
those or negroes. Two other guests
swore 10 the hearing Of the negro
voices. They both testify h a they
saw the squad 60 around the corner
OF Thirteenth and Washington where
there was a street light and where
they OH recognized the men as sol
diers. a squad APPARENTLY had d.
vided, one part going up the alley TO
the Tillman saloon and the other gO-
ing east on Thirteenth street to the
Starck house.
The Starck house stood on the east
side Of Washington stfeet next to a
house OF a man named Tate. who had
knocked down 4 member Of G COM
I 90. fy.+ laUr. .uI44sAsta uFka4-
doubtless mistook the Starck house
for the Tate house. They fred eight
or ten shots INTO the second story
rooms In the front Of the house, in
Which there was a light and in which
rooms four or five children Of Mr..
and Mrs. Starck were sleeping. These
bullets went through the mosquito
bars of the bed IN which three child
rem We're sleeping.
Coming now to the latter squad
that went TO the Tillman saloon and
their acts there-there We're In the
saloon three men-Frank Natus, the
barkeeper, Pauline Preciado. the edi-
tor Of a Spanish paper, and another.
a Mexican.
Preciado followed Natus out into
the yard when five or six men crowded
into the alley gate and shot at Natus.
Preciado was wounded in the hand
ana had a bullet hole in his coat. He
testlnes that the men that did the
shooting were negro soldiers. HIS
testimony Is weakened by the admis-
sion on his part that In previous state
ments at the inquest before the grand
jury and elsewhere he had not said
that he recognized the men who did
the shooting to be negro soldiers,
but he seeks 10 explain this by the
% II Faa,a.s.t fIlf h. lt4u tAf uEITn l
There We're bullet holes inside the
yard of the saloon.
Cartridge shells were found outside
of the garrison wall and all the way
up the alley from the garrison road
to Twelfth street, especially at the
Cowan house, at the Leahy hotel, at
the Miller hotel. at the Tillman saloon
and in front Of the Starck house, on
Washington street. which was shot in.
Clips were also found, used to hold
five cartridges in the gun together and
a h%andolier. on cartridge case TO be
slung over the shoulder, manufac-
tured by the Union Metallic Cartridge
company.
Some thirty-two shells. seven loaded
cartridges land two or three clips We're
collected from Mayor Combe and
others by Major Blocksom ana Mr..
Purdy ana were subject to expert eX-
animation by military officers at Fort
sam Houston and by Captain Rice
and General Crogier Of the ordnance
bureau. They proved TO be, all Of
them. ammunition with marks midi
eating tina they were manufactured
exclusively for the government and
for use only in the Springfield rifle Of
the model of 1903, with which the bait
talon at Fort Brown was armed. II
appeared that these cartridges would
not ut In any gun known In the mar
ket. not the Krag-Jorgensen on any
other gun. military or sporting known
TO the expert witness. except a sport
ing Winchester rifle OF tho model Of
1905, but that the cartridges were so
insensitiVe AS not to explode under
the hammer Of this winchester OF
1905 model rifle when chambered to
receive cartridges of his size, so that
the cartridges Of this size which We're
manufactured and sold for the Win
chester 1905 rifle had different and
more sensitive methods OF discharge,
which easily distinguished them in
appearance from the government am-
munition for the Springfield rifle. II.
therefore. Is c~onclusivcly established
that no guns but the Springfield rifle
could have discharged the cartridges
the shells Of which we're found along
Ah' NV va 10y az NOV ~ NV
morning of the t4th OF August. Three
bullets were extracted. one In the
presence Of Major Blocksom at the
CoWan house. one by Major Blocksom
from the Yturria house and one by
Mr.. Cara from his own house. Each
of these bullets was of the weight and
size of bullets used In the Springfield
ammunition and bears the four marks
of the lands or raised parts between
the grooves of the riding.
The evidence is conclusive that there
were no guns except the Springfield
guns which would discharge the bull
lets from the cartridges found. When
his evidence is carefully considered
IL Is a conclusive demonstration that
the firing must have been done by
men with the rifles of the Springfield
1903 model The only rifles of this
kind in or near Brownsville were in
the possession of the soldiers of the
three companies, h. G. and II, of the
Twenty-ffth infantry.
The suggestion that after The hur-
ried shooting which Vas lone almost
at double quick and vas finished GER
tainlN within ten or fifteen minutes.
those who did the shooting could
have had some other gun han the
Springfield rifle. Gould have picked up