New-York tribune., 1908-12-15


The gallery and started firing, all after the hISt
shot was fired: all aroused as they testlhea uii nan
nousIv from sound siumber. in less than two MIN
utes in the confusion of dark nar'Reh , pnd
been opened and the inside conspirators We're reaag
to pour OUT on the slgna smGrS tuentv seconds be-
tween the last the signal shots ana the hist
The number firing from the barracks is unknownn n
but perhaps twenty men were inyoTeo a 4, li Iea6
ers mn the alley. 1t will be remembered that one
OF the te group of Soldiers excsim. There they go
Whereupon these men leaped over the wall anu
Boyd Conyers is the whose gun 5ammedia as1ias at
the ext OF I.e aIieS Oy .ie 80 taken from him
by De Saussure and fixed in the street WheTe Lle
s1h s sfSet fF6m 'ss sSone nss5 6n f@R al s '0
Less than five minutes elapsed from me IN ag hack fi
first shot fired until these men were d" OaON
Gonye6s stated at s6o3 that IN Req The town and he had
laughed and said: Don't go out there and let the
When c6nyers and De saussure reached the the
guardhouse they ran in the back way and got INTO
their bunks Sergeant Reid came in and swore at
them. but Convers was so excited ana % %ut 10 oI
toned him at the rear OF the guardhouse IN the
dark. where he could not be scrutnized SO GISes s
about daybreak and Reid passed them out The
guns were all cleaned before daylight
This day personally appeared before me William
Lawson who. being duly sworn, deposes and says
IAwsON'S AFFIDAVIT.
On June >. 1905 I was sent to Monroe: Ga. to
Rter'asw afst,65e6 B9go Al fownsvie Tex in August
Conyers and ascertain If he knew who did the
of Snv o the members Of either Of the companies
stationed at that point nor was given an! , o.,ieI
at the time and place above mentioned and that nat
Boyd COnyers was suspected OF knowing WHO oiu
arrived at Monroe. Ca. on June ). and stopped
onTers o,-e Oi1, who is known as :'Budde Conyers
tbe noTninS Of June s but had Very little
wit bTtTya introduced
old soldier, On the morning of June 8, between
tween the station house and Main street, we
talked some twenIy GT and mentioned the
fact that the soldiers had shown their GOOD sense
then asked him what the motive was for the shoot
ing. He told me that the crackers az @ broNi,s Is
negro soldiers Brownsville. and the soldiers had
had nnade Il Up An tner m nins i 1S ma clean I'm the
ground. He also said that they mentioned this 10
and that Reid said: IAN that I have 10 is 10
take care of Yourself and the boys when hen you sc
Charleston, 5. c, was present and heard the same
About then gentleman called Conyers 10 come
ane clean some clothes and SonyeTs Ieft ahd @ NOM @
I was with Conyers nearly every day and went
l5 | aid not mention the Brownsville matter to
Conyers again until June %. when 1 returned from
Shia date met Ia hi9 s3' at Joe % BasSingaHe and q
pint bottle OF liquor; offered him drink-he would
and we stopped under storehouse porch near near
& o ne Je & r5 rg GIfv a The tine of the shoot
ing Brownsville, and stationed at the out
let toward the He said that when the guard
toned 70 Sergeant Reid what had occurred down
town. ard he said, Boys If yon are not satished,
marked that they were going TO get satisfaction
don't YOU go down there and let them get the best
OF YOU. He then assigned the guard and Wen-
In this conversation Conyers told me that John
Brown J Il HoHonlan and a man mann named % Io"eIi Ell
guard, and that they went downtown and just gave
them he'll, and after they shot out all of their
cartridges they back TO the barrac cks, and when
they got beck TO the barracks they found that the
alarm had been sounded and the officers were call
ing the roll: Hooman, Brown and himself We're
Brown ana Hoi!oman but that he was late and
that Keio told that they had gotten. themselves
TO the guardhouse and pretend 20 be asleep, which
H told me that they had slipped few car
triGges when target practice and that before in
Cartridges to replace the ones he had used, He
further said that they had all agreed before they
that he would have told them at the investiga-
he was afraid I had no further talk with Conyers,
because / saw that I was being suspected by the
WILLIAM Clis Y mark LAWSON
GEORGE " MADERT.
District Of Columbia . SIS; -,,. g.
for he district aforesaid this 10th Of october
GseaII GEORGE ". MADERT, Notary Public.
BROWNIES AFFIDAVIT.
This day personally appeared before me Herbert
J. Browne Of Washington d c. whQ being duly
sworn deposes and says:
was employed by the War Department in May,
1908 in company with Captain William g. Baldwin,
of Roanoke Va, chief of the Baldwin Detective
Agency to investigate the conduct of the battalion
Of the 18th Infantry. stationed at Brownsville, Tex,
which conduct resulted in the Brownsville raid,
50 called on the night of August 1914, 1906 where
in one Frank Natus killed, Lieutenant of 20
lice Dorninguez badly wounded and the houses or
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