Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-07

ODl6 was ten steps IEOUl w OOlWlIlS.
What did Major Opie say?" he
was asked.
"He said, 4 shot him; take him
OUT
"What was said before the shoot
iPg?"
Gave No Reason
"Not a word was passed. Major
Opie gave no reason"
,"How many shots were fired?"
Zone. It hit Woolwine il the chest.
He was dead when we picked him
up"
did you make complaint about
the shooting?
II did not"
In a letter to Senator Watson
Smith said he had been decorated
by the French and American gov
ernments, but he admitted that he
had received no such honrs.
"Why did you say it. them"
GA friend of mine, a patient in the
hospital at Marion with me. wrote
the letter and 1 signed it without
reading it"
Who wrote the letter.
BENJAMIN Huger."
Smith said he had been physically
unable to work since leaving the
army.
Taking the witness, Senator Wat
son told Smith to compose himself
and not to be afraid of Major Opie
or anybody else in the committee
room.
"Have you any personal grievance
against Major Opie?'
%@11 -
write you that 1 had been deco
rated. ST was a volunteer.
Senator Watson took sharp eXcep-
ton to- line of cross examination by
John A. Cutchins, of Richmond, va,
counsel for Major Opie, The lawyer
had asked Smith if he believed man
killed in battle died an honorable
death.
Watson Protests
cts outrageous to have officers
bullyrag this poor, nervous mani!
Senator Watson shouted. eve are
after evidence, not opinions"
After \the flare-up Chairman
Brandegee held the question was not
material and it was withdrawn.
Chairman Brandegee, calling at
tention to discrepancies in state
ments in Smiths letter and testi-
mony, as to the dugout shooting
asked which was correct.
"What I testified was right" he
said.
He was then excused.
Osborn Ellison, of Pulaski, men
toned by Smith as having BEEN in
the dugout with him at the time OF
the Woolwine shooting, declared he
was not present.
did you see Major Opie shoot
oWolwine?"
mo, sir, I did not."s
ever see Opie shoot any soldier?"
"Never. I was not with Smith and
never saw him but once"
"That's ALL"
Others Didn't See Shooting
Lee Collins, of Dublin, Va, was
next called.
'"You heard Smiths testimony"
Chairman Brandegee asked.
"Yes.'
"Were you with him in the dug
out?"
mo, SIR"
"Ever see Major Opie shoot Wool.
wine or anybody else?"
mo, sir
Collins said he WIS a committee
witness and not summoned by Major
Opie.
William J. Eskew, of Pulaski, Va,
of the 18th infantry, testified that
he was not in the dugout where
Smith said Woolwine was shot. He
had been named by Smith as having
been present.
did you ever see Majoc Opie shoot
a soldier?"
mo, SIR
"You can 60"
Edwin Duner, of San Francisco,
voluntary witness, stepped forward
and declared he wanted to testify
concerning prison atrocities in
France.
81 was at Bassens prison, near
Bordeaux, where I was sent up for
three months for going across the
egg sandwiches" While at the pris-
on. Duner said h saw a sergeant
v lille drunk, kill a prisoner for asS
ing for a slice of bread. The SER
geant, he added, was not court
martialed so far as he knew.
John Fitzgerald, of Pennsylvania,
who was locked up for being drunk,
was named by Dunre as the prisoner
killed. The sergeant, he said, was
named Cooper.
Duner also gave the names Of
witnesses saying $50 negroes and 200
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