Show WASHINGTON PLACES NO NOm m FAITH IN BRADY STORY W WASHINGTON Nov 2 Jasper Jasper Ewin Brady was formerly attached to the signal signa corps of tho the United Unite States States army and held heM the rank of captain but resigned in 1899 Gen Charles F. F Allen chief of the tho signal corps said Bra Brady y was a telo telegraph raph operator and had llad written written written writ writ- ten a number of magazine articles lIe He did not know however that ho had bad been on any board charged with tho investigation investigation in in- vesti of the tho destruction of the Maine Rear Bear Admiral who was executive officer of tho the Maine faine at the thc time tho vessel essel was blown up said today to day that there ba had 1 been no military board appointed to investigate the dis dis- astor aster The story told by Bra Brady y was was one of the tho theories advanced at the time the naval board of inquiry of which Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Rear Admiral Wainwright was a member investigated the matter It Tt was discredited then and Rear Admiral W Wainwright ht said he ho placed no stock in it now He branded as untrue Brady's Bradys statement that a piece of cable that led from the tho mine to a room in iu Moro castle was now in the navy department If there had been any such cable able ho bo declared de do- dared it would 1 have been discovered by bythe bythe bythe the divers who examined tho the hull after the explosion |