Connecticut western news., 1890-11-12
Barttslot's Brutality Confirmed.

the natives following the incident. y
 The Case of John Henry. Bonny says that Barttelot ran about the camp prodding people with a steel pointed staff, and that the boy Sudi died from the effects of kick dealt him by the brutal major Continuing Bonny says:
 "I now come to the case of John Henry. the mission boy who died from the effects of a logging ordered by Barttelot. Walter Barttelot says John Henry had been or dered to be shot, but that this punishment was remitted by the major and fogging substituted at the request of Bonny. This is only partly true.
 "Henry did not desert, but Barttelot sent Soudanese guard after him, and he was placed in the guard room. In talking with me Barttelot said: John Henry is dangerous man and l will shoot him. If don't shoot him will cut his ears off
 F1ogged to Death.
 "The men all threatened to desert if the boy was shot and Barttelot decided to give him 800 lashes instead of killing him. The lashes were given" Bonny continues: Henry never uttered a sound after the first thirty lashes, as he became insensible to pain. This scene was the most horrible lever saw. Modification set in; the mans flesh fell off in pieces on to the ground, aAo HE UOuy SWoAoO GO LW1C0 US OTUludIy size. Within twenty-four hours Henry died"
 The Killing of the Msnyema.
 Ut was on the 18th that Soudi received the fatal kick, and I saved the majors life when he bit the Manyema woman; and it was on the night of the same day that he killed the Manyema, the comrade of Sanga. This man Barttelot prodded at least thirty times with his steel pointed cypress staff and finished up by beating the mans brains out before the eyes of all in the will lage. The scene which followed was like that which occurred when he bit the wom- an, and again had to fight to save Bart telot's life. It was only by knocking him down myself that the natives held back, for then they thought I meant to punish him. Maj. Barttelot's reasons for killing the man as he did Were that he believed him to be the native who had shot at him and myself while we were sitting in my house the night before"
 The natives were goaded to fury by Bart telot's brutality by this time, and Bartte- lots murder soon followed. Bonny says: "The description given by Stanley in his statement to The Times regarding the shooting is correct, with the exception of the reference to the steel pointed cypress staff. Barttelot did not have this staff on
 
 the woman with it, but he did beat her with his fist, and he did kick her, and he had his loaded revolver in his hand, as stated by Stanley.
 Regarding Bonny's Lack of Initiative
 Stanley has said in his book that lacked initiative What he means is that I ought to have taken Maj. Barttelot, bound him, and sent him away. He be lieves that violence should have been used to stop the proceedings of Maj. Barttelot; but can only say that I am pleased that Barttelot's blood is not on my hands, as would have been the case had attempted to do what Stanley suggests. Barttelot was so hated, so execrated by every black man in the camp, that the moment he had passed out of my hands on the way to the coast the men would have torn him limb from limb.
 Jamieson's Incredible Inhumanity.
 Bonny fully corroberates Stanley's charge that Jamieson bought girl and had her killed and eaten by natives that he might have exciting incidents for bis sketch book. He says: "Jamieson's servants told the story to the whole garrison, and Jamieson himself re lated to me every incident as described by Stanley. Jamieson showed me the sketches describing the scene in detail I cannot now describe each of the six sketches, but they begin with @ picture of the girl being brought down tied by one hand to the na- tive, who holds in his right hand the fatal knife. He is then represented thrusting the knife into the girl, while the blood is | seen squirting out.
 "Then there is the scene of the carving | up of the girl limb by limb, and of the natives scrambling for the pieces and running away to cook them, and the final sketch represents the feast These sketches are now, or were until very recently in the hands of Mrs. Jamieson.
 He Warned Barttelot's Brother.
 "Walter Barttelot will now understand what I meant when I asked him not te pull his brother out of the grave, and tliat he should not publish Barttelot's diaries told him nearly everything that Ihssv' said above, and he cannot claim that h, was ignorant of the charges against hi. brother
 "Unfortunately he has seen fit to sup press parts of Barttelot's diary and part! of the letters. Had he published Bartte lots diaries and letters in full they would have thrown much light on this subject.
 Bonny believes Maj. Barttelot was in sane. In conclusion he says: '1 do no wish to defend Stanley. am not beholdeI to him nor to anybody else in this matter But the public have demanded the truth and l consider it my duty to give those facts which have come within my owI knowledge" s.i