The Washington times., 1907-01-14

a block OF 40 feet 20 Washington, and
! thence on Washington street toward
! Twelfth 10 a house standing on the
east side or Washington street and Oc-
| cupied by Mr.. Stark. This house was
| riddled with bullets. Proceeding up
| Washington street 10 Twelfth and west
| on Twelfth. brings US again 10 the aney
| along which. as already stated, most OF
| the shooting was done. A volley was
fired at the corner OF Twelfth and the
| alley west toward the river. With this
| geographic explanation, which II Is nee
/ essary TO keep in mind in order TO fol-
J low The evidence clearly, We come now
to the events OF the night The shooting
| occurred about m tnight.
hurry Up and Jump"
Jose Martinez was a drug clerk who
| lived IN a house fronting on the north
1 side OF the garrison road. Immediately
/ opposite the garrison wall and bar
/ racks and next 10 the alley. He was
sitting inside his front dor. with the
| door open. reading by a light. when
/ he heard from four 10 six shots in front
/ of his door, fired. as he thinks. inside
/ the garrison wall He went to the door
10 see what was the trouble and he
/ heard some one say Hurry up and
| jump, and he saw negro soldiers nrst
/ IN group OF five and then some twenty
/ or more. jumping the garrison wall
/ lley were fifteen PAGES from him when
I he saw them jump. He then put out his
/ light closed the door and laid down on
/ the nOOr TO avoid injury. Fifteen or
I twenty shots had been fired when Pc
closed the door. He heard their voices
/ and some seemed 10 be going toward
/ Elizabeth street west. while others moved
/ toward the alley 70 the east He herd
I shooting in the alley back of his hoU q
l and looked out his back window and
! saw men IN the alley back OF his house
some ten or fifteen. He said they were
/ soldiers because he saw them from the
I window; he saw hem shooting from
/ their hips.
/ The witness Mcdonald, an elderly man.
| q carpenter and builder bV trade, living
/ half block from the garrison wall on
Adams street. 10 the east Of Washing
/ ton. was awakened by the firing, came
down 10 the garrison road and walked
west 70 Washington street. Saw shots
( hired from the inside OF the garrison.
/ one from the gallery OF one OF the bar
/ racks and one from the ground. He
then saw twenty or more men assemble
| IN front OF the garrison wall on the gar
+ Tison road near the garrison gate. under
the lights OF that gate nearly opposite
| Elizabeth street. He saw them divide
/ into two squads, one going west toward
I Elizabeth street and the gate and the
telegraph station. and the other squad
going east 10 the alley around Martinez
house He lest sight OF the one going
. toward the gate and telegraph station
and Fetreated from the squad advancing
/ up toward the alley. tie then heard
u
| COwen and Miller house He recognized
I them as United States colored soldiers.
There were TWO lights on either side
4 OF the pillars OF the gate opposite tho
/ foot OF Elizabeth street.
Shot From Garrison.
@. ". Kendall. who. with his wife. Oc-
/ cupied a room in the second story OF the
/ telegraph station. was awakened By TWO
shots. He looked out OF the window to-
/ ward the garrison wall and saw from
/ fifteen 10 thirty men moving around be-
| tween the barracks and the wall. They
were negro soldiers, and were shown TO
/ be such in the light Of the lamps OF the
| garrison gate. He couldn't tell that they
were armed. except Jhat he saw the
| flashes from the discharged guns. There
/ were nve shots fired within the garrison
wall lie saw them make a break for
| the wall and 60 over the wall-he thinks
eight or ten In number, but he couldn't
/ tell where they went. Shortly after, the
/ nring began IN the alley and continued
! Tor Ten minutes he heard the word OF
( command. One shot struck the house
| ana room in which he was aHG threw
| dust on himself ana wife. as they looked
/ out OF the window, and went through
their mosquito bar. Mrs Kendall says
She was frightened and ran TO the win
/ cow when the firing began. thought the
shots seemed 10 come from just inside
I the post at one SIDE OF the gate They
were In rapid succession. and she
| thought ten or twelve in number. She
/ thought she saw figures OF men running
up inside the wall in the direction OF
I their cottage She couldn't tell whether
/ they were soldiers or not and was 50
| overcome that she could not locate the
/ firing afterwards.
Mr. Sanborn, the telegraph operator,
Union soldier In a Maine regiment
and who had been IN Brownsville thirty
years, was sleeping in a room back OF
the telegraph office on the ground nOOr.
| Was awakened by the firing-was con-
fused for some mi7utes-and did not at
] once get up. Said tie firing seemed TO
be right in front OF the garrison gate,
| Just outside the wall very near the WIN
dow. After the first firing he looked
through the shades OF the blinds and
saw one cOlored soldier come from the
| direction OF the alley between WashiHy-
J ton and Eliza beth streets along the gar
I risOn wall. Did not seem 70 be hurried.
had his gun with him, and walked on
through The small gate toward the quar-
Z tiers of the barracks Between the time
Z OF his being awakened and seeing this
soldier there was a few minutes inter
/ val About the time he looked through
the blinds the firing had ceased IN front
/ OF him. and he heard firing in the alley
back OF him The first firing was so near
/ to him that he could almost feel the con-
cussiOn. Then Il receded up the alley
Heard Bullets WhizEing.
The witness Schneider. a boy twenty
| years old. living on the garrison road
/ east Of the alley. perhaps 80 feet, was
/ in bed when the first shot was fired:
/ got ID and came out onto the sidewalk
and saw a couple OF volleys fired from
I inside the garrison from between the
/ barracks and the garrison wall. He
heard the bullets whizzing and went
hack, into the house. He heard the men
I walking on the barracks pOrches, and
heard some one say: Where is the
damned stun; get IL going" This was
| as he walked back into the house.
Theodore Martinez. the care taker Of
the Yturria house on the corner of
! Washington street and the garrison
| road was awakened by the shooting from
the direction OF the post. Couldn't say
whether the shooting came from the
inside OF the garrison or from the edge
or the wall Ran inside brick house
I -. Na1 Ia hull holes