The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-02-16

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the type of guns and their caliber
both from the reports and from
the whistling of the bullets abov.
his head. He insisted that re-
volvers, Winchester and Reming
ton rifles and perhaps some
Mausers and small arms were
used.
He estimated that he heard be.
tween $50 and 200 shots. The
cross examination by Senators
Warner, Foster and Overman
tIook the witness over the same
ground covcre! in direct teSti-
mony, Sanders contending that
tile firing came from the town and
that he could rot be mistaken on
this point
He reiterated that he could dis
/ tinguish the sounds of mixed
arms and the general calibcrs
used. When asked if in the cx-
citemert he could still diStinc-
uish these sounds he replied that
he could.
cit is my duty to keep cool
even if l am excited" he said.
The next witness was Thomas
J. Green, who was the quarter
master sergeant of company y.
told of seeing flashes from guns.
followed by reports of the guns.
He said that the shooting came
| from the town. On cross exam
nation he said that he had never
| told anyone of seeing flashes
from the guns and that he did MT
consider it the duty of an enlisted
man to investigate the effects oi
the shooting.
| He further testified that he was
awake when the firing at Browns
vile, Tex, began on the night Of
Aug. I3. Vie said the first shot
came from the town and the FIR
ing was apparently over the wall
in the direction of the barracks.
! He said he then saw the flashes ~
several guns and heard other
shots from the town.
! Charles II. Madison. former
corporal of company c, related
in his testimony how Major Pen
rose. after the shooting began
from the town of Brownsville,
had issued an order to break open
the gun racks, except those
opened by Sergeant Brawner. 10.
up to that time they had been
securely locked and the soldier
having charge OF the keys could
not at that moment be found. He
further said that when the call
to arms was sounded. no lights
were allowed, because it was
thought an attack was being
made on the garrison.
He thought it might be dit
ficult to tell in the dark whether
the racks were unlocked or not.
After company { was formed
Madison said he was sent To the
quarters of Captain Macklin. but
could not find him Later he said
he was told to take two men and
patrol the reserve in the vicinity
t the hospital to
age had been done.
At the hospital he said ser
geant of the hospital corps told
him that bullets had whistled over
the building, but that no one was
hurt.
When he returned to barracks,
said Madison, company { fell out
and about twenty-five minutes Ia
ter the company was put on out
post duty, which continued until
about $50 O'Clock the next morn
ing. Inspection of arms was
then conducted by Captain Mack
lin. He insisted that company [
men could not have been involved
in the shooting.
On cross examination it was
brought out that the hospital
corps sergeant who said he heard
bullets passing over the building
was white man.
Madison testified that it was
privates Reed and Newton OF his
company who had had the trou-
bic with citizens of Brownsville
which is said to have engendered
i'll feeling between the citizens
and soldiers.
He told also of having seen
signs posted in saloons giving no
tice to the Negro soldiers that
they would not be served.
The testimony of the proceed