Word: foley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zachary Lansdowne, widow of the Commander of the Shenandoah, had testified before the Mitchell court martial (TIME, Nov. 23) that Captain Paul Foley, U. S. N., Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry, had tried to influence the testimony she gave before that body. So the Court of Inquiry on reassembling made Captain Foley a defendant, and its new Judge Advocate, Major Leonard, U. S. M. C., summoned Mrs. Lansdowne and others as witnesses...
...Witnesses were not entitled to counsel. Mr. Davies insisted. Rear Admiral Jones ordered a stalwart marine to take him from the room. Mrs. Lansdowne began by refusing to testify, but when questions were asked her, she began to talk and ended by testifying for three hours. She said Captain Foley had called upon her two days before her previous appearance before the court. She maintained that by his manner he had tried to intimidate her, that he had told her she must not say the fatal flight of the Shenandoah was political; she declared she believed that the Navy...
...uncle and aunt, with whom she was at the time of Captain Foley's call, testified that they got the impression that Captain Foley was trying to intimidate her, and that Secretary Wilbur had sent Captain Foley to try to get her to testify as he wished...
...wives of four other Naval officers were called, who testified in general that they had heard Mrs. Lansdowne deny that she had any criticism to make of the Navy Department. Mrs. Steele, who handed Mrs. Lansdowne the statement from Captain Foley, said that she had made it clear that the statement was just a suggestion to make it easier for her to testify, to be used or not used as she pleased. She said Mrs. Lansdowne kissed and thanked her when she left...
...last Captain Foley was called to the witness stand. He said he had called on Mrs. Lansdowne, without any instructions or suggestions from his superiors, as part of his duty as Judge Advocate to question witnesses before they appeared before the court. He denied having told her that she must not say the fatal flight was political, although he advised her not to. He said that from what she told him he found her inclined to make statements of facts of which she could not have certain knowledge and which were contrary to other evidence given before the Court...