Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1907 — UNITED STATES TARS ATTACKED [ARTICLE]

UNITED STATES TARS ATTACKED

Bailors from the Cruiser Tacoma Shot and Cut by Police at Santiago, Cuba.

New York, May 2.—A dispatch from Havana reports that a number of sailors from the cruiser Tacoma were wounded in an affray with the police of Santiago. Commander Tappan, in reporting the affair to the naval authorities here, wired as follows:

“About 2 this morning a small party of liberty men from the Tacoma wore attacked by the police of Santiago while on their way down to the wharf. Ensign Brisbin, who was present In civilian clothes, was also attacked by the police. These were injured: Henry Leo Lee, fireman, shot in lung; Claude Joseph Pember, electrician, cut on left arm; Leslie Baldwin Dustin, senman, arms fractured; all serious. Also cut and bruised, Ensign A. T. Brisbin, Machinist’s Mate C. B. Thackellon, Apprentice E. F. Anders, Seaman Glen Cavender and Louis Kline and Electricians Frank Leghorn and N. G. Sturdevant All is quiet now. Am making a thorough investigation.”