Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-14
SUGGESTS
WAY TO Do JUSTICE
TO NEGRO SOLDIERS

continued From Twelfth PaseD
in the co; raj. furnished the following
list % suspects: James Bailey. Carolina
a SausSure. e. T.. Cooper. John Hollo
man, James t"RastusD Johnson. Henry
Emerson. William Lemons. J l.. Wilson
He also believed agreeing with Con
yers. that Sergt, George Jackson knew
all about il and opened the gun racks
for the raiders before the shooting. and
again after the guns had been returned
% the racks at o'clock in the morning.
that they might be cleaned. BOYD Con-
ycrs made tie same statement as u part
If the history of the raid
The two lists of raiders agree with the
addition by Brown of the name Of J. L.
Wilson. though furnished independently.
Z Wilson gun one in which shells
picked up in the alley were found to fit
II is noted that Cooper. Holloman.
Lemons. Emerson. Johnson and Wilson
all belonged 10 Company s base ball
team and ran together.
Other members of the base ball team
were: Corp. Wade Harris, James Al
len. Henry Carmichael Edward l..
Daniels. Henry Jones. George Mitchell.
Isaiah Raynor
Cooper was the coach. and Emerson
and Lemons substitute players.
Conyers' list is four short of the fifteen
raiders whom reliable witnesses counted
in the alley.
George Mitchell was a bad esq: was
given six months a. Fort Reno for de-
Sertion.
Isaiah Raynor slept in the kitchen on
the ground floor. and gave confused testi-
mony as to how he got upstairs. He tes
titled that his own gun was in the fourth
section rack. but he got S. r. Hopkins
gun on; of the third section rack IS. l.. p.
l.94, This is in line with the testimony
of James H. Ballard. clerk of Company
u. that the men got guns Unfortunately
from the first rack they could get to.
Raynor also said that ''Sergt. Allison
told him to take gun from the third
section. Allison was the eXSoldier who
ran the Holloman saloon.
AiiISonS testimony was never taken.
If haynor's reference is not mistake.
it should be inquired into as TO what Ali
son was doing in the barracks
Raynor says he got his own gun for in
spection the next morning and Lieut..
lawrason stood him back because it was
foul. He slept in the northeast corner
Of the ground floar of the barracks. the
corner nearest the fort wall and tine gate.
yet would only admit that he heard the
shooting i'll the back part of the town.
in the rear of b company, going down the
street" IS. l., p. 1900. Raynor's testi
mony was not taken at Brownsville.
The base ball crowd tried to protect the
guilty men by deliberate lying. For in
stance, Corpl. Wade Harris testified IS
Doe. No. 402. p. 12D that the Lrng had
ceased when Serst. Jackson was trying
To unlock the second section rack. This
is manifestly false. for those Of the sec
ond section who were not on the raid
were pouring downstairs with their guns
while the firing was still going on
Testimony Of Mingo Sanders.
Before proceeding to examine the testi-
mony relative to the raiders the testimony
of First Sergt NVngo Sanders. which was
taken by Lieut.. Col. Lowering a: Browns
,.iIIa
after the raid. should be considered San
ders lived in married quarters east of the
Guardhouse. He was awakened by the
shooting. dressed and hastened to Com
pany E barracks. arriving there after
Iient- Lawrason who testifes that he
got there about five or six minutes after
the shooting began and that he heard no
sho;s after he joined the company
tMacklin trial. p. 81. The last shots
rired by the raiders were at the Tillman
saloon. and II took Them perhaps, at the
most a minute TO run back to the fort
and another minute to fall in.
At least eight minutes elapsed from the
first fusiilade to the time Mingo Sanders
reached the front of 3 barracks. The
distance from the Tilman saloon to the
front of b barracks was 800 yards The
married quarters were distant between
five and six hundred yards Sanders is
positive that he saw Jonn Holloman be
fore the shooting ceased (S Doc. No. 4O2
p 11S). But there was desultory firing
going on In town from aroused citizens
for many minutes after the raid was over
Sanders testities that the company was
practically in line when he got there
which further proves his lateness, as all
other testimony shows great confusion
and delay in forming the company men
being sent back for guns and ammuni-
ton. and at least eight minutes elapsng
from the first fusillade till the line was
fairly in shape.
Lieut.. Lawrason testifes that il took
Donf tiyC mil III
shooting began TO get to the company
and several minutes 10 form the com
pany; that all the firing took place in
about five minutes. and that tire farthest
iflhS seemed TO be at a distance of not
more than 100 or 40 yards tMackIin trial
j. ID. He further says Pcnrose trial D.
1851 that there was great confusion that
the men struggled ill., and that the last
man had taken his place five or six min
uteS after lie arrived. about eight min
utes after the first call to arms and
about nine minutes after the first shots
were fired. The last shots of the raiders
might very probably have been fired after
t. company began to assemble but the |
men were struggling ill for at least five |
minutes.
Discussion of the Evidence.
II IS circumstantially absolute that i'll
soldiers of Il company fired service rifles
from the upper gallery of 3 barracks,
from the ground inside the for: wall and
then crossed tho wall to join the raiders,
the fact was we'll known throughout the
barracks, and their fellow soldiers lied tol
conceal the facts and TO protect the raid
cFs. Yet the building up of alibis is eX-
iTemelN slight. and but little testimony
was adduced in regard to the presence in |
the barracks Of the members of the raid
ing party while the shooting was in prog
rsSs. The witnesses generally deemed 1t
safer to know nothing
William Anderson. Company b, was one
OF the three musicians of that company. |
Henry Emerson was the second and Hen
ry Odom the third Anderson and Jimer-
son are charged with being in the raiding
party. Odom sounded the call to arms
corp. Wade Harris. S. Doc 4O2 D.
I'D Anderson claims 10 have been asleep |
IS. Doc. iO2. p $50 and John B. Ander-
son. his 'bunkie. says that he saw h.m
when he awoke. Very little testimony of
Identification was brought out and it'll
would have been OF very doubtful value at |
best. 4 for no other reason than that the
barracks were in total darkness Seret !
jackson claims to have unlocked the racks
by aid OF a talloW candle.
Emerson testified that he was asleep |
IS. Doc. 4O2, p. 1l9). Cooper, Johnson, |
Jones, and Lemons gave identical testi-