The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-02-15
ARMY POST AT FORT SAM HoUs.
TON CENTER OF INTEREST,"
THE COUNTY WAITING WITH
BATED BREATH THE FINDINGS
OF THE coURT--vARIED TEsTL
MoNY FROM WITNESSES.
Globe Headquarters, 311 South Center
Street.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. THE
beautiful post at Fort Sam Houston,
Tex, has possibly attracted more at,
tention in the last week than it has
since the famous Ninth and Tenth
Cavalry arrived here fresh from the
scene of conflict in the Antilles, when
they marched across Alamo Plaza and
out Avenue &c" playing "There'll be
a hot time in the old town tonight"
The most notable feature of his mem
orable parade was the cavalry band
mounted on iron greys The atten-
tion given Fort Sam Houston, which
is a beautiful suburb of this historic
city, is caused by Maj Penrosey
court-martial, which is still in session.
Grave-looking and distinguished army
officers wearing elaborate military
costumes can be seen on the lower and
upper parade grounds. 1t appears
more like Sanhedrin Council of old
than court-martial nowadays. The
appearances are that deep down into
the facts will the court-martial go and
that some things heretofore not given
to the press will be unearthed. The
witnesses are here from Brownsville
while the citizens are here as specta-
tors from the city of San Antonio
Some of the Spanish-American war
veterans who fought side by side
with the gallant Twenty-fifth Infantry
are walking about the post grounds
with knitted brows and troubled con-
sciences, fearing lest some unfair tes-
timony should be deduced to the det-
riment of this regiment Some have
been heard to say that this court-mar-
tial of Major Penrose in which he is
to prove his innocence is thing they
do not understand. They have been
accustomed to seeing courts-martial
when charges have been preferred
against them, but never in their army
career have they before been sum.
moned when there are no charges
against them.
| The first witnesses to testify to-day
were placed on the stand early, one
being a woman, whose testimony was
said to be extremely light and of no
Importance. J. P. Mcdonald was put
on the stand afterwards and at
tempted to describe the Brownsville
disturbances. He did not see the fir
ing, but it is said he heard it. Thus
his testimony was only a matter Of,
what was heard. Mrs. Emma Leahy,
the wife of a hotel keeper, gave about
the only testimony that was Of any
interest. She testified that she saw
flashes of the guns from her windows
and that she heard the shots. She
saw forms of men whom she believed
were raiders and thought that she
could discern the faces which looked
black to her as they passed her win
dows. She was not positive, but she
thought she heard soldier remark
that he would "kill out every white
man in the town before morning" She
further testified that it appeared to
her that the fifth shot was fired from
the barracks of the fort, but upon
cross-examination she admitted that
she was within the walls of her own
house and could not say positively
that the shot was fred from the bar
racks, as she did not see it. She only
heard it.
F. A. H. Sanborne, manager Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company at
Brownsville, was also placed on the
stand and gave his testimony relative
to the dispatches that we're sent out.
Judging from the testimony brought
: out, it appears that the dispatches
sent out from Brownsville were by
citizens and people who knew moth
ing definite as to what had happened.
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. S-Continued In.
terest is being manifested in the
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