The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-15

| s-ttr VII tHS uiknl III QutSllpn, duu iI nothing were Known save the finding of the shells, clips and bullets.
 Fourteen eye witnesses, namely; Charles R Chase. Amado Martinez Isnacio Don1inguez, Macdoneo Raaliez. G. W. Kendall, Jose Martinez. J. P. Mcdonald. F. H. Sanborn, Herbert Fl. kins, Hale odin. Mrs. Hale odin and the assailants or some of them at varying distances and that they were negro troops, most of the whites giving their testimony In such shape that there mistaken. Two other witnesses. Jo- seph Boden and Genero Haddon, saw, some of the assailants and testiheds that they were soldiers tthe only sol diers in the neighborhood being the eolered troors.)
 voice. sf Negroes.
 Four other witnesses. namely, s, e: Moore. pr. Thorn. C.. S. Canada and the shooting and hearing the voices of the men who were doing 1t and that these voices were those of negroes; but d.d not actually see the men, who werc other witnesses gave testimony corro- borating to a greater or less degree the testimony of those who thus saw the shooters. or heard them. The tes- would establish beyond all possibility of contradiction inc fact that the shoot ing was committed by ten or fifteen or more of the ne gro troops from the garrison and this testimony of these would be amply sufficient in itself if rot a cartridge CT. a bullet had been found; exactly as the bullets and cart ridges that were found would have es- had not a single eye witness seen them. or other witnesses heard them.
 The testi7s ony of the whites on the position of the bullet holes show that .r fxr~Ar ,Axr< kt,a tvnn nrNU gathered inside the fort and that the first shots fired into the town were fired from within the fort; some of them at least from the upper galleries of the
 The testimony further shows that the troops then came out over the walls. some of through the gate and yards. or thereabouts into the town. During this advance, they shot into two hotels. and some nine or ten other houses. Three of the private houses into which they fired contained women
 They deliberately killed Frank Natus. the bar tender. shooting him down from distance of about fifteen yards. They shot at a man and woman, Mir. and Mrs. Odin. and their little boy as they stood in the window of the Miller Ho- f the from 1ns se SeaS o sss the shsn They shot down the lieutenant of po- lice who was on horseback, killing bis horse and wounding him so that his arm had to be amputated. They att tempted to kill the two policemen who were his companions. shooting one through the hat. They shot at least putting out a lighted lamp on dining table.
 Mrs. cowen and her five children n the house they saop st once tSrsw not hit. They fired into the Starck house. the bullets going through the moanito bar of q bed room from eigh- tie children were sleeping. There was light in the children's room. The shooting took place near midnight
 Panic Was Great.
 The panic caused by the utterly un- expected attack was great. The dark ness of course increased the confusion. There is conflict of testimony on some sential point Is established beyond pos sibility of honest question. The care full examination of Mir. Purdy, assis. tant to the attorney general. resulted in merely strengthening the reports already made by the regular army of ticers. The shooting. 1t appears, oc- may have been some minutes more or less It Is out of the question that the fifteen or twenty men engaged In the assault could have gathered behind the wall of the fort. begun firing, some racks. gone out into the town. fired Tn the nelXn0OInOOQ or EuV SuOIS ln the town and then returned-the total time occupied from the time of the first shot to the time of their return being somewhere in the neighborhood of ten minutes, without many of their con- rades knowing what they had done In- deed. the fuller details as established by the additional evidence taken since I last communicated with the Senate make 1t likely that there were few if any of the soldiers dismissed who could have been ignorant of what occurred. It is we'll nigh impossible that any of the non-commissioned officers. who were at the barracks should not have known what occurred.
 The additional evidence thus taken renders it, in my opinion, impossible to question the conclusfc ns upon which my order was based.
 1 have gone most carefully over eve ry issue of law and fact that has been raised. I am now informed that the effect of my order dismissing the men without honor was not to bar them from all civil employment under the Government. and, therefore, that part of the order, which consisted of a doc laration to this effect, was lacking in validity, and I have directed that such portion be revoked.
 As to the rest of the order dismissing the individuals in question, without honor, and declaring the effect of such discharge under the law any regula- tions to be a bar to their future re- enlistment, either m the army or the . tutionaI or legal power. The order with within my discretion. under the constitution, and the laws cannot be reviewed or reversed, save by another executive order. The facts did not merely warrant the action took-they rendered such action imperative, unless I was to prove false to my sworn duty.
 If any one of the men discharged heretofore shows to my satisfaction that he Is clear of guilt or of shielding the guilty, l will take what action Is warranted; but the circumstances ! upon any such man the burden of this
 Theodore Roosevelt.
 The White House, Jan. 1A, 1907
 The letter of the Secretary of War to the President transmitting addition al testimony in the Brownsville case is as follows:
 War Department. Washington, Jam War Department,
 My Dear MT. President-On the 22nd to send Major Blocksom to Browns vile and neighboring places to pro cure sworn testimony reduced to writ ing and signed by the witnesses with reference to the persons who were the perpetrators of the outrage committed of August, and assistant to the attor- ney general, MT. Purdy, to accompany Major Blocksom to assist him in the examination by examining the wit nesses. Accordingly l wrote the fol, lowL-g letters to Inspector General
 December 22. 1s06-
 Sjr-Acting upon the official reports of Major Blocksom Lieutenant-C Colonel Lowering and yourself. all of the inspec-