The Washington times., 1908-12-14
Would ReinState All Who
Can Show Department
They Are Innocent.
INVESTIGATION NOT
YET DISCONTINUED
detective Declares That Sergeant
Reid Knew of Raid and Pro-
tected the Guilty Men.

throughout the barracks, and their fel-
nV-soIdiers lied 10 conceal The facts
md TO protect the raiders Yet the
luildinE up Of alibis is extremely slight,
nd but little testimony was adduced IN
,agard to the presence in the barracks
II the members of the Taiding party
while the shooting was in progress The
witnesses generally deemed it safer 10
,now nothing
William Anderson, Company =, was
sne OF the three musicians OF that com
}any- Henry Emerson was the secohu
and Henry Odom the third Anderson
and Emerson are charged WIN 9elns pen .,,a IN
he raidinS party. Odon sounded the
all 10 arms. corp. Wade Harris .
DOC 4O2, D. 1g1D Anderson claims TO
nave been asleep Is. Doc fUz' p loSl
md John 3. Anderson. his -bunkle'
saws that he saw him when ne aWOke-
Very little testimony or idenJinCation
vas brought out, and it you'd have
heen or very doubtful value at best. II
'or no other reason than that the bar
racks were in total darkness Sergeant
Tac[son claims to have unlocked the
racks by aid of a tallOw candle. Jlnner-
son testired that ne was asleep Is. Doc:
20. %. 149D Cooper, Johnson. jones' aho
Lemons gave identical tesum1ny Ihat
tbev were asleep. This was all before
Lieutenant Colonel lowering at Browns
vile, september =, 1865 They do not
appear again.
Henry Emerson had a bad reputation.
as a trouble maker and tough
Henry Jones was a bully and notori-
Gus from picking quarrels with recruits
William Lemons was a tough He
deserted at Fort Reno, was captured
and given six months IN prison
Carolina De Saussure was notably 4
hard case and reckless He assaulted
member OF the band at Niobrara and
was Given six months in the guard
house.
Special Examination.
James BaiIey's case needs special eN-
animation. He was supposed 70 be IN
the hospital The hospital was undel
charge OF First Sergt. f L OltmanS,
Hospital Corps (white)Y and located
about 100 yards south Of the guardhouse
Oltmans was in his quarters beyond ne
hospital Is Doc. 402. Part II, p l->,)
He was awakened by the firing, dressed
and went TO the hospital He saw his
Orderlies, PTivates Nolan and Sanboru
and four colored patients The firms,
he says, was over when he get TO the
porch He does not state how long X
took him to dress and get TO the hos
pitai. but does not seem 10 have hur-
led.
orderly William c Nolan (whlte) was
in bed, in the hospital. got Up, lighted
the lamp, and then went out on the
porch. then went to Sergeant Oltmaus
house 70 call him, then went back 10
the hospital. Is Doc 402. Part II, p
1861 He says there were three or may
be four patients IN the hospital Dut
Identifies none Of them.
Orderly Sanborn Identifies no patient
by name, and merely refers to the reg
OTds as to how many men were there.
Private John kirkpatrick, Company ..
who was in the hospital. testifes that
there was only one other patient, VII
liam Harden Of Company ,. and IN
orderly Harden was a patient there,
and was also cooking at the hospital.
lie makes no reference to Bailey.
So, apart from BdIley's own state
ment. he Is not identified definitely as
hsviug been at the hospital at the time
Of the firing He could have been alb
sent and returned without attracting
atteEtion.
In summary. there is no reliable d.
rect evidence precluding a single one
Of the suspects from having been on the
raid. The circumstantial evidence
would admit Of every one Of the list
having been out,
In the Material
In The annexed material. reports Of
Captain Baldwin's detectives. fair sam
pies of a much larger list. it Will be
seen that very different opinions are
held by several of the ex-soldiers from
the ores appearing in their official tes-
timony. The admissions are somewhat
remarkable Private Howard, Corporal
Franklin, Corporal Thornton, and PRIV
ate Joseph L Wilson express the OpIn-
Ion that it was done by the soldiers.
Many Of the men make statements
similar to those Of Sergt- George Jack
son, COTPl- Anthony Franklin. and Tenn
pie Thornton that their Senator" OF
their attorney, had told them not tC
talk. or course, II they had no guilty
knowledge they could tell nothing t.
harm them.
The circumstances Of the firing from
barracks, from the ground inside the
wall. and the general comment which
ensued among the men. makes absurd
any theory that the members Of the
battalion in barracks 3. Q, and D, could
have failed to know that soldiers DID
the shooting The general resentment
among them at the hostile attitude ut
the citizens OF Brownsville was suffici-
ent to initiate the conspiracy of silence
ADDED thereto was the fact that a muir
DER was committed, and that the State
or Texas was taSiEg a hand n seeking
10 punish the criminals. The discharge
OF the whole battalion. saIutarv and
necessary as il was, made a racial is.
sue Had the battalion been of white
soldiers instead Of ColOred, no maud.
lin eympaJhy would have been roUSsC
over us discharge without honor. and
me whole affair would have blown over
IN month.
The Cartridge Shells.
The expert evidence submitted 10 the
Senate Committee Identifying certain
cartridge shells picked up in the Covar
alley after the raid as having becr
fired from guns issued to members o,
Company B is conclusive The whole
flaw seemed to be In the Identification
Of one Of the guns issued to Priva1,
Blaney and supposed to have been
locked up in an arm chest in the store
room OF s barracks. The records al
gun issues were kept by the quarter.
master sergeant, and showed numerou,
changes and irregularities.
There was no actual inspection Of tbe
guns in the arm chest by numbers un,i
long after the raid. There was no abso.
lutte testimony from an unpre iudIcer
source as to the Blaney gun being In
the arm chest. and it was known anC
acknowledged that guns were beIng
changed more or less among the mer
without auth or1ty. II the Blanev CUR
was out there was ample opportunity Il
return Il without detection Private
Joseph L Wilson so declared to Captain
Baldwin
The argument advanced I'm defense OF
the soldiers that these shells came from
box Of empty shells lying open I'm the
gallery OF p barracks, and that they
had been taken by townspeople and
scattered In the valley to throw sus-