| Show CITIZENS OF TON 1 Offic Officer r of Discharged Brownsville Brownsville Brownsville Browns Browns- ville Troop Gives ives Evidence at Capital MEXICANS GOT UNIFORMS Sergeant rg Frazier Sa Says s 's Negroes Did Not Do Shooting Bad Blood net Between i Washington Feb C. C Inquiry G.-Inquiry Inquiry Into mite th tho he Dr Brownsville riot ilot case case was WIlS resumed before the senate investigating committee com corn toda today and tho the evidence favored ore those seeking to prove that the dismissal dis ml missal 11 of the lie colored colore soldiers ol was waR a mistake eu on the part of the thu a tion loll Jacob Jacoh Frazier nr first t Sergeant of tIme the colored troop was wac the time chief witness witness wit wit- n ness j. j his testimony naturally lI favoring the soldiers I L thought at first filst that sopi som of Ih the soldiers IS must have be been n mixed up In Inthe inthe the shooting up of or the town said i First S Sergeant Jacob Frazier when he lie heas w was as sworn before time the committee Because the tol told mo mime that I sonic some of our bullets hind had been found foun in Iii inthe I Ithe the thit hou houses es nut hut I t now that th the people of Brownsville mC did l 1 It it When hen we Wt went vent to Brownsville rown sonic some of our ol old uniform clothing was thrown away avay alit and fell into hue the tho hands of or Mexicans around there some t of th lie caps cap too loo They Thoy could have been used to disguise men macli as IlS sol soldiers lers Tried to I rh Negroes Out Onto In rOil reply I to questions as to motive moll tOI for forthe the shooting shooting- up iii of oC the town b by ft Its own citizens n Frazier explained that lint there was as much dissatisfaction among the saloon men because the lie colored soldiers were not want wanted by white while customers In their places then lien a dis- dis ls- ls colored sol soldier was aIS opening a saloon for th time the sol soldiers lers and th the white saloon men wanted time Iho colored troops sent awa away avay so they hey could have the time patronage pat pat- of oC the white while men who in that thu case would come Charles Dade a cook c un and Ser Sergeant Jerry Reeves were ere examined Some interesting evidence was brought out outa a as to a document signed some time a ago o ob b by members of ot the discharged companies com coma panIcs concerning tho the discarding of these old uniforms admitted that this statement was signed by hy some semi of or the lie discharged soldiers at the Instance of agents agent of or the this Constitutional league it was calculated to dl discredit tho the Idea that the soldier did the time shooting and 1111 to strengthen the time l idea t 3 I that some seine of the tho pc people ople of or Brownsville did it it Senator Foral Foraker er led in Sn examining witnesses ol and S Senator P protest protest- d od that he lie was too 00 much disposed e to toIa Ia lead his witnesses and to suggest their answers to them hemn This caused the Ohio Ohio- ian to reply warm warmly I that he lie Im knew knet w tIme the propriety of or examining witnesses |
