The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
WHAT GREEDY SAYS.
The Arctic Explorer on the Re-
cent Disclosures.
What He Knows About the Charges
Of Cannibalism.

A Portsmouth IN. H. dispatch to the New
York Times says: Lieutenant Greedy says of
the disclosures regarding the condition of
Lieutenant Kislingbury's body that it is news.
horrible news to him All these disclosures
and dreadful charges, he says, came upon him
with awful suddenness, and have caused him
more mental anguish than all the experiences
from which he suffered in the North.
The lieutenant says that he can but report
that if there was any cannibaism and he adj
uits that there now seems to be no doubt
about it, the mau-eating was done in secrecy,
without his knowledge and contrary to his
discipline.
81 can give no stronger denial" says the
lieutenant. 81 have demanded an investi-
pation. and it will come in time, but l can
saw nothing more than have already stated.
All my papers, Kislingbury's diary, Lock
woods diary, and, III fact every scrap OF
paper relating to the expedition are in charge
of the war department at Washington.
tine crew of the Thetis can testify that the
hodv of the last man dead Schneider, was not
mutilated in any way, and the fact that we
kept Ellison alive in the hopeless state we
were in ought to convince anybody that we
are not cannbas-at least not an organized
body of cannihals. When | increased poor
Ellison's rations, to the detriment of all the
rest of us. not man complained, although
knowing that it decreased our spans of life in
a terrible degree.
Regarding the story of the trouble between
Kislingbury and himself, Lieutenant Greedy
saws it occurred in 1881, the first year of the
exped;tion Kislingbury desired to be re-
heved from duty, and Lieutenant Greedy, not
wishing to retain a man against his will, gave
him his liberty He went southwark, but the
Proteus was sunk, and he returned to duty.
The Lieutenant SAYS there were not two fac
tions, with Kislingbury at the head of one OF
them. When Lockwood died, kisingbury
was given the second place IN the expedition.
Lieutenant Greedy adds that since his re
turn to his cottage here from Newburyport,
every man of the survivors has called upon
him and assured him separately that they
knew nothing about the condition of the bod
les of their fallen comrades. Each man sol.
emnly swore that he was innocent Of the deed
II cannot say" the lieutenant said,
"whether they told the truth or not and l
doubt if an investigation will reveal who are
the cannibals. Perhaps those who died last
fed upon the bodies of those who died before,
but all this is suppostion. ] can but answer
for myself and for my orders to the party.
For days and weeks lay on my back unable
to move. If in my enfeebed condition
one or more of my men fed upon
human flesh, it was beyond my control
and certainly beyond my knowledge.
THE reason why did not tele graph at on e
upon my arrival at St Johns the fact of the
shooting of Henry was due to my own
wretched condition, mentally and physically.
Henry was shot on my own responsibility bat
the exigencies of the case demanded prompt
! action | have since been assured by Serre-
taries Chandler and Lincoln that | did only
my duty in acting as did.