Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-15
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TESTIMONY AGAINST THE SOL
DIERs AND BROWNSVILLE.
George W. Kendall and His Wife Tell
Senators What They Observed the
Night Of the Shooting.

: The investigation into the shooting up Of
Brownsville, Tex, was resumed this morn
ing by the Senate committee, on military
affairs. The committee again met In the
press gallery Of the Senate, eleven of the
thirteen members being present.
Two witnesses were examined during the
morning session Geo. w. Kendall and Mrs.
Kendall. who lived opposite the entrance
into the Fort Brown reservation and who
observed events from their windows on the
night Of August Ii, telling what they had
seen. Mr.. Kendall was positive in his
statement that he had seen three or I'VE
colored soldiers in uniform pass near the
lights Of the gate shortly after he had heard
shots that awakened him at about midnight
He said he saw, other men running inside
the wall of the barracks and about eight
of them, he declared. scaled the wall and
dropped to the road outside. He asserted
from revolver.
The question will be raised as to whether
the shots that he saw fired were not the
same that had been testified to as having
been fired by the sentinel In order to at
tract attention. as Is customary at time
of any disturbance in the military reserva-
lions. The place testified to by Mr.. Rem
dali as Being that from which the shots
were fired, however, does not correspond to
the place at which the sentinel on that
night fred, the latter being back on the pa
rade ground. The question as to time will
also be raised In the effort to identity these
shots as the same.
Saw Men Running.
Mrs. Kendall also testified to having
seen men running near the lamps at the
entrance of the gate, but did not recall
whether they were soldiers. She and her
husband both testified that they were look
ing out Of a window when their house was
struck by a bullet. which went over their
heads and which caused splnters and dust
to fall upon them. The bullet went
through the house and passed through
mosquito bar over their bed on its way.
Mr.. Kendall said that he had lived in
Brownsville since 1859. When nineteen
years of age. while in the United states
navy, he went on the expedition to Japan
commanded by Commodore Perry. He is g.
large property owner at Brownsville. He
owned the building in which the telegraph
office Is located. Immediately In front OF
the entrance to Fort Brown, and very near
the scene of all the shooting. and lived in
the second story of the building.
Mr.. Kendall is quite hard Of hearing and
many years ago lost the use Of one eye
These defects of hearing and vision both
were brought out by. Senator Foraker in
connection with the ability OF the witness
to see objects at night with precision ana
to hear ordinations that were made, or
were alleged to be made, by men moving
near the barracks.
Could Distinguish colored Soldiers.
The witness; however, said that his eye
sight, when he has glasses, is about as
good as 1t was when he was thirty-f1ve
years of age. He testified that he was
awakened by shots on the night of August
ID. and going to a window he saw three or
five men, he could mot say definitely how
many, pass within fifty feet of the en-
trance to the barracks, where there We're
two large lanterns of about fifty-candle
power each, and one smaller lantern. He
was positive In stating that these men
passed rapidly to the eastward, and he saw
them clearly enough to distinguish that
they were colored men and soldiers.
To the left of these men he saw ten or
twelve others who seemed to be assembling.
At that time he saw two shots fired from
what he believed then to be self-cocking
pistol. The shots were elevated over the