The Savannah Tribune

Cruel Treatment

New York, N. Y., Feb. 27—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, today announced that the record of the hearing in Haiti by Senator McCormick's Committee had been received from Washington.

Following are extracts from the testimony given before the Senators: A. J. Boxo of Port au Prince, said that Marines entered his house and "wrecked it with blows of an axe." and that he knew no reason for their doing so.

Abbe Louise Marie le Silence, priest, of Thomazeaul, testified that in August of 1919 some 250 or 300 houses in the village of Crochus were burned without warning by a party of Marines and Gendarmes under command of a lieutenant Wedor; that the inhabitants who fled in terror to the woods said their furniture was stolen by gendarmes.

Polidor St. Pierre of St. Marc, testified that he was put in irons both hand and foot and was hung thus for five days without food or water, and tortured with a hot iron by order of a Captain Brown.

J. Jolibois, fils, of Port au Prince, testified that having been committed to prison for attacking the American occupation of Haiti in his newspaper, he was brutally beaten in prison.

Volny Faultre of St. Marc testified that he saw the application of torture by electric current to make persons testify in the prison of St. Marc in March 1919.

Dilon Victor of Miragoane testified he was confined in the prison of Miragoane for 27 days in November, 1917, and was hanged to an iron bar by his wrists because he refused to lend a Lieut. Jackson his horse.

(Madame Exile Onexille of the section La Guajon testified that Captain Keily hung her husband to the rafters of their house, and then set fire to the house, burning the man.

Charles Bussey Zarom, former senator of Haiti, testified that Marines

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stole two of his mules and a burro under orders of Col. Hooker, and that he was driven from his own house.

Eria Emanuel of section Ia Guajon testified that he saw a white soldier or officer shoot his crippled brother and a boy aged 15.

Mezier Belloni of Savanna Grande, commune of Maissade, testified that he had seen white Americans kill his father and mother in June of 1920.

Joseph Diendonne of Herbes Guinea in Maissade, testified that a white officer, William and a gendarme tied his nephew against a tree and burned him, and that he himself had been shot and his pigs, chickens and beef stolen.

It will be remembered that the first public charges of atrocities in Haiti were made by Herbert J. Seligmann and by James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. and were at first called absurd by the military authorities including Josephus Daniels at that time Secretary of the U. S. Navy.