Show MACKLIN SOON i I TO HAVE M TRIAL Captain of Company C Infantry Testifies Before the Senate Committee EXONERATES THE NEGROES STORY OF SOME MISSING CART CARTRIDGE CARTRIDGE CARTRIDGE RIDGE SHELLS f 4 4 M H M 4 e 4 ton April 1 The 4 f 4 mony mon of or Captain Edgar A f 4 4 of ot Company Com pan f C Infantry 4 f f 4 try was taken by h the senate com corn 4 f ff 4 f on en military mill tar affairs today toda In f 4 4 the Brownsville Brown Investigation I It f 4 4 proved provId particularly particular for forthe 4 4 the reason that Macklin Mackim is to be 4 4 I 4 tried by b court martial after his re ye return f 4 turn to 10 Texas Texan and tot lot the further 4 1 I 4 reason that he was shot by h an un unIdentified f 4 identified negro nero at Fort after 4 I 4 the negro lIellO soldiers were Tere token away an 4 4 from Fort Kort Brown BroI does not 4 4 4 believe the negroes n were ere guilty of 4 I 4 shooting UI up Browns according to 4 4 4 his hla story etory told on the stand today 4 4 t 9 4 M 4 i 44 4 4 I n April 1 Captain Edgar A Mackim Jacklin of Campany C C in infantry Infantry infantry fantry testified today in the senate enate Brownsville investigation He lIe suid suil today I that after he had examined Ml I the tho garrison to ascertain the effects of ot the shooting I and finding no damage th thre re he went I outside tim tho gate and at the mouth of an In alley aile not far from the garrison wall he lie found six cartridge clips and seven Iven cart cartridge ridge ride shells of or the type used tI for the Springfield rifle These Thoe e shells hellO were wre found in a circular apece sp ee about ten inches in diameter which ha M declared to b be 00 an im impossible impossible possible position unless they thor been placed there ther by pome sonie one Captain Mack IB k ha said he had done dORe ever everything thing possible to discover who did the shooting including including ing the careful questioning of the tho men inca of his command Senator ForaUer asked the witness to give ho his ins opinion as all to who iho did the thc shoot boot shootIng shooting bootIng Ing Macklin MackIm said ald Well I dont think the m mn n did it itHe ItHe He Ite described I the attitude of his men the tha Investigation and sid said he had read very ery line of testimony that had hali been taken in the arious various Inquiries and that he te Il I convinced t tl at t the tho firing was as not done by br the m mn men n of or the fifth Infantry I Believes the Negroes Lied At the tho afternoon i session es lon ion Captain Cap ln Mack Macklin Mackun lin un was cro principally as to his whereabouts when hen the shooting ng oc occurred occurred and the evidence given gUen by b former negro soldiers that they the had been unable to find the captain In his lila quarters when Major Penrose sent bent them to arouse him Captain Macklin said that he did dirt not be bellee the soldiers had come to his lila quarters quarters The Thc shells which Captain Macklin picked up UJ outside th the garrison wall wail were put In I his desk he lie h said and were wert forgotten un tIn until until til iii after the battalion left lert Fort Brown I Search Sarch for them later had been unavailIng In Ing Chairman Warron Warrn n questioned Captain MackIm concerning the attack aUak upon him himat himat I at Fort Reno Keno after the Bronn af at affray affray I fray fra when the captain was shot hot through the head The Th witness said he was in i doubt as to who ulio did tho the shooting Officers of my ms m regiment trie tried l to mak m mc belf ve that the th shooting was waR for 01 the purpose of or robbery robbe ho said ald but It is ismy Isi Ismy i my mv own theory that it was not lie He saul said r I the th shooting hooting f had been done by b a masked rero but that he knew nothing further concerning concern In It Corporal Knowles of Com Corn Company Compan pany pan A infantry is 15 under arrest charged cha ed with having committed the assault but bt t Captain Macklin said ald that the evidence eld nee against Knowles Knowl s was nas as purely pur ly circumstantial n |