Show MAJOR PENROSE CHEF WINESS I Senate Committee Hears Story of Man Who Commanded I at Fort Brown I EXONERATES EXO THE NEGROES I TELLS OF MEETING EXCITED II I I CITIZENS I Washington ashington April Apri 3 Testimony of or un unusual unusual j usual interest was a given ghen today toda In th the Brownsville Investigation before th the sea sen senate I ate committee on military affairs UI the chief witnesses being Major Charles Charle W IV Penrose enrose who ho commanded the former forme sol eel soldiers diers who tho are charged charge with lh having shot t tup up p the Texas Tex city and Lieutenant H II G Leckie who Iho was sent to Brownsville by b General commander of the th Department of Texas Texa to Investigate facts connected with the shooting Lieutenant Leckie traced the th course taken aken by bullets bulet that penetrated houses house housen In n Brownsville and came to the conch conclusion sion lol that the bullets could not have hav h been fired fred by b soldiers in the barracks baracks Major Penrose has haA been acquitted bv by b bour court our martial martal on charges chargeR of or neglect of duty while the same court curt martial martil found rond the men of the infantry were guilty Notwithstanding this M Mior Me I jor Penrose asserted his hill confidence now now in n the innocence of or the men mEn although ai a I first frt he thought them ther guilty gUity Awake When Shots Were Fired I Major Penrose said he was 1 awake when the firing rin began on the night of o Aug 13 He lIe I heard two pistol shots from th the I road rod he thought In the vicinity of ot th tho I guard house He testified to sending Cap Captain Caplain 1 lain tain Lyon Lon with wih Company D to patrol th town tow and of his return accompanied by bY b I Mayor Combo Combe and his brother Joe Combe Combo and of oC their statement that soldiers had I done the shooting The witness said sall Mayor Maor Combe told him none of the men menor I of or the should be permitted to tl enter the tit town as he lie could not be responsible for tor the actions of citizens to toward toward toward ward them This applied to officers as aswell a aswell well wel as enlisted men as aa Mayor Combo Comb Comb said that the sight of a uniform might mig t inflame the people Major Penrose said Id he replied that he would allow none of or his men to enter the town and neither would he allow alow a citizen to enter the gar garrison garrison rison neon Meeting With Citizens Committee Major Penrose said sd he did riot not believe bleve his Majr men had done the shooting until the following morning when Captain Mack Macklin lin lie found round the clips and shells hels outside the garrison wall wal at the mouth of oC what Is ts known as the Cowan alley aley The witness detailed his meeting with wih a citizens corn com committee cm on the morning mornin of Aug Aug 14 U when a demand was made for the surrender to civil authorities of the perpetrators of the Ivl attack He lIe told the committee that thatus us as 8 soon as 8 the guilty guit men could be ba dis discovered di covered he would surrender them and that In the meantime he was taking every ever precaution to prevent a recurrence of the firing fring |