The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-16
CHALLENGE
 TO SOLDIERS Negroes lmaginations Are Improving. DARED TO LEAVE BARRACKS White Men of Brownsville Wanted
 Pitched Battle. Discharged Troopers Say That Citizens of Town Planned to Massacre the Entire Garrison in AL
 lison's Saloon.

Washington. Feb. 15.--Testimony al- leg.ng p.ans 10 massacre negro sotdters aG brvwnsellle. Texas. by men m the .own wno fired over the barracks anu ehaaienged tue soldiers to come ou. was given by ex-solaIers today at tne investigation before the senate Com mIttee on Military Affairs.
 The most sensationai story was told by William Mapp, wno was . memoer of Company c. 10th Infantry. He was on the stand when tne bearing ad- journed for the day. Mapp was asked if he had ever heard any discussion of the shooting which caused him! to sus- pect any persons of comp.icity.
 He replied that at breakfast the morning after the shooting he had heard Wilburt Voschelle, the reserva- ton corral boss and white man who had been in charge of the corral prior to the arrival of a battalion of the e5th, say: well. 1t is a good thing 1t happened as 1t did. l was out in town last night and the crowd came in front of me. The plan was to catch lot of you fellows in Allison's saloon and massacre you"
 Mapp said that the remarks was nor addressed to him and that he did not question Moschelle MoschelIe has been subpoenaed as witness
 Before giving this testimony. Mapp said that on the night of the shooting, he had been awakened by the firing and had gone to the windows Of hts quarters and from there he saw several guns flash and the shots seemed to D" directed over the >arracks. A man with deep voice. he said. shouted.
 Come out you black" using an op- proeious epsthet. and Mapp said this was repeated several times
 But the calltto arms was then sound cd and he hurried to get dressed to fall in. He said the shooting and shouting was outside the wall at the end of the company B. barracks. MRpp told Of the confusion In quarters ana said that he got his gun from the rack and It was broken and he was, one Of the first to fall in,
 , Thomas Jefrerson. who was the room orderly iIa SsoInpany c, barracks said hs heard the shooting and thought there were ten or twelve men firing. The shots he said came from the rear and near the end of B, barracks.
 He sstd he saw the flashes and thought the garrison was under at> tack. He said that he had made statement at the war department be- fore Judge Advocate General Davis for the purpose of clearing his name Of suspicion because of a statement in the papers that President Roosevelt would permit men to reinIist who prov ed their innocence. Senator Foraker asked that q subpoena be issued for General DavIs.
 Solomon H. o'NeiI, also e former member of the Company c, testified that the shooting was from near the wall at tho end of Company B, bar racks and that the shots were appar- ently over the barracks. He said he heard @ man shoot and yell, Come out"
 This occurred several times, said O'Neil, before he was compelled to leave the window and dress. He testi- fled that there was great excitement in the barracks, that there was no light and the men could not get their own rifles,