CROSS, MAY 12, 1902
Statement of Albert L. Cross.
My name is Albert L. Cross. I live at 208 Colchester avenue, Burlington, Vt. I am 25 years old. I entered the military service of the United States September 21, 1899, and was a private in D Company, commanded by Captain Brownell, Twenty-sixth U. S. Volunteers. I went to the Philippine Islands with my regiment and was discharged May 13, 1901. Regiment landed at Iloilo; from thence we went to Jaro and Sera [Sara], and finally, March 1, 1900, our company went to Banate. While there we were the only company and the post was commanded by Captain Brownell.
I remember the day the priest came up to camp. He was dressed in the uniform of a sergeant of artillery. I knew he was a priest because I carried his robes up to quarters from the gunboat. He was confined alone in a little room under the officers' quarters. He remained there about nine days. During that time I and another man, by direction and in the presence of Captain Brownell, gave him the water cure twice, once about a week after he arrived and the second time the next afternoon. The cure was given for the purpose of getting money which he was supposed to have for the insurgents. Sergeant Campbell was the man who assisted me.
That same afternoon I heard some one at headquarters say, "We are going to give it to him again to-night." About 10 o'clock that night I received an order from Captain Brownell, delivered by Sergeant Campbell, to go over to headquarters, that they were going to "dose the nigger again." I asked to be excused, and he excused me and ordered Private Branch to go with him. The next that happened I saw a squad of prisoners, from the window of a house which I was in near the quarters, coming over. I did not look closely at them; I knew what had happened. I heard them dig a hole on the parade ground, and I knew that they buried the body on the parade ground. In the afternoon at headquarters the doctor, Woods, Campbell, and Brownell were talking the matter over, and I said that if the cure was given to him again it would kill him. That was the reason I asked to be excused.
ALBERT L. CROSS.
MARCH 12, 1902.
Personally appeared the above Albert L. Cross and made oath that the above statement subscribed by him is true, before me.
JULIAN CODMAN,
Justice of the Peace.