The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-03-01

south of San Antonio to the Rio
Grande and west of San Antonio as
far as Ell Paso, which includes Ft.
Bliss, FIT. Stockton, TT. Ringgold. Ft.
Brown, measured from Ft. Sam Hous-
ton, contains some of the places in
which these regiments have made
good the oft repeated assertion that
They are soldiers" When it is re-
membered that such men as Alice,
the famous outlaw and his type, held
the boards in West Texas for years,
it can easily be seen how the city of
Brownsville could have been shot UP
by men who would possibly do it just
for the sport that there was in it.
Alice himself, who seemed to have
taught the people on the border how
to create a row, has ridden into Lara
do and other Texas border towns on
many an evening and closed up the
town, riding out of it without being
molested. Then, too, one might take
a five-dollar bill and hire as many
MeXicans as there are half dollars in
a five dollar bill and they would do the
work for you. None would ever be
the wiser. 1t will be remembered in
this city that the late and beloved
policeman Harris was deliberately
murdered by a Mexican, who testified
that he got for his work the paltry
sum Of $1.00. 1t would seem that all
evidence now being brought out III
the Penrose court martial will con
vince the public, and it is hoped the
chief executive of this Land of the
free and home Of the brave" that the
Brownsville affair was a deep laid
conspiracy to wreck the post at Ft.
Brown, because Negro soldiers had
been sent there to replace white ones
who were sent elsewhere. After the
mischief was done and was reported
as a soldiers disturbance the matter
was allowed to go that way, and is
now referred to as Negro Soldiers
shooting up the town." The surprise
created in this city after reading the
despatch from Washington, where the
soldier testified that he had been in
structed by Major Penrose to take the
two ladies (his wife and another LADY,
to places of safety during the night,
Notwithstanding the rumored assault
on the white woman the day before
by soldiers, had a telling effect and
ran up the stock of Negro manhood
in the army, as did the confession of
the hotel clerk who said that he only
heard voices in the rear of the hotel,
and judging by their voices they were
members Of the twenty-fifth infantry,
it showed a weakening on the part OF
the citizens of Brownsville.
The testimony given by DR.. G. M
: Thorne, a prominent dentist from
Brownsville on Tuesday, was possibly
the weakest and most d~iscrediteC
testimony during the proceedings Of
the court martial, except that of the
hotel woman herself. The doctor wa:
considerably confused when the sol
z. dierly Col. Glenn began his cross-eX
animation. Indeed it looked at one
= time as though he would contradict
, every bit Of his testimony. He con
L fesses that he did not see the men MOI
i does he know whether they were
: Mexicans, whites or Negroes. He only
t heard men talking. His testimony
stating that the shots came from the
I direction of the post, bears out the
y testimony of others who state that the
shot was in the real of the post on the
outside. The balance Of the time o.
the court martial will be consumed il
reviewing the testimony. 1t is hard
ly expected that Major Penrose viii
be convicted. Evidence is not strong
S enough against him to sustain the
charge of Neglect of duty" Thai
every soldier was accounted for al
roll call, that his order had been is
sued and obeyed, which was that nc
soldier leave the post that night
h seems evident.