Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-12-15
Negro Who Lost Eye Was at
San Juan.
HIS ASSAILANT PUNISHED
Because Blow Was More or Less Ac
cdental and Berry Jackson Had
Been in Jail Two Months. Light
p Penalty is lmposed-osher Cases.

Berry Jackson, the negro, VINO sew
eral weeks ago Knocked out the left
eye of Thomas Walker. a former ser
geant in Troop ID. Tenth United
States Cavalry. the famous negro
regiment which saved Col Theodore
ROosevelt's Rough Riders from an
Inhalation at San Juan Hill during
the Spanish American War. was found
guilty OF assault and battery by the
jury in the Corporation Court yes
terday afternoon and sentenced to
ten days in Jail ard fined s.. The
evidence tended t. show that the
knocking of the mans eye out was
more or less of an accident. Berry
being tantilized by other negroes
and IN striking out at them his finger
dug INTO Walkers eye. taking the
ball cut of the socket. In view of
this fact and the fact that Berry al
ready has been in Jail two months
the jury imposed the light sentence.
Served in de Amy"
That Walker was sergeant of
the Tenth Cavalry and fought at San
Juan Hill came out at the trial yes
terday afternoon. The witnesses in
the cas-, referred to hlm as Ser
geant Walker and Attorney F. 5
Robinson, counsel for Perry, began
to make light Of the title
Commonwealth Attorney Berkeley
recalled Walker to the stan AMI a.
ed him where he got the uile of SER
geant Walker replied that he used
TO be a sergeant in de United States
amy" Upon being asked in what
regiment he served, Walker said that
he was sergeant of troop d. Tenth
Cavalry, and that he fought in the
battle OF San Juar Hill
DO you know Lieutenant Carter
Johnson" asked Captain Berkeley.
Dose know him. VIII reckon
dose. Why Lieutenan. johnson am
de greatest and braves. man what
ever lived
Had Cubsns Shot.
Lieutenant Johnson, who is negro,
and vino is a major new, commanded
the Tenth Cavalry during the Span
ish- American War and is known in
army circles throughout the country.
He commanded the picked company
Of SO men from the Tenth Cavalry
whicr was detailed to communicate
with the Cuban forces early in the
war While being guided from
Gomez's camp to the province OF
Santiago by some Cuban guides. the
company lost several saddles and
carbines and Johnson found that the
Cubans had stolen them. He is said
TO have been drunk at the time and
he court-martialed the Cubans and
had four of them shot. This anger
ed the Cubans and johnson was
compelled to fee the country under
cover of night, going to Jamaica
from which place he returned TO the
United States. Later he returned to
Cuba with the Tenth Cavalry.
Sailor Ges Two Years.
Moses Silvia, the West India negro
sailor from the five -masted schooner
Dorothy 3. Barrett. who cut William
H Jones at the River Road and
Eighteenth street, two month ago,
was found guilty by the jury in the
Corporation Court yesterday morning
and senenced to two years in the
State penitentiary. Silvia struck
small white boy and Jones, who was
passing by. interfered-
This angered the negro sailor and
he drew a knife, stabbing Mr.. Jones.
The wound was net serious and is
entirely healed now. Silvia was re-
presented by Attorney f. S. Robin
son and Captain Berkeley prosecuted
the case.
1. D. Mills Indicted.
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