Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-11-07
STANLEY'S ANSWER
He Speaks Very Re'uctalt y
 of Major BarttG.ot.
A MAN THOROUGHLY HATED.
Shot by Chief Wh Sc Wife H. Bat fo,
 Sing; g.

Troup's Charges Ref"tesI No Immortality
 fla the Camp-He Denies that He Went
 as an Agent of England Ills Mission tu
 Take Provisions to Emin The Story
 Will Come Out.
 7 NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-Mr. Henry M. Stanley and his wife were literally be. sieged by callers during the day, but beyond few warm personal friends and some newspaper men, Mir. Stanley saw no one. He consented to tell his version of the story ok Major Barttelot's tragic death, and the fortune of the expedition under Barttelot's charge.
 "I selected Major Barttelot," he said, because he was recommended to me by a Mr. Fitzgerald of the Indian Office, and because he was young man of pluck and an experienced traveller. Of his in- firmity of temper knew nothing, and when I learned of it the damage had been done.
 Stanley speaks reluctantly of Major Barttelot. He does not question the courage of the Major, but intimates that he was an impracticable man and wholly unfit for the position. His temperament, his peculiarities, rendered him unpopular both with his brother officers and the natives. In a word, he was thoroughly well hated and became more and more so until the crisis came, when he cruelty beat the chiefs wife and was slYot by her husband.
 A Record of Punishment.
 Mir. Stanley said, in answer to Troup's statement of the horrible condition of the people in the camp:
 EETE Is~a1 A-s will find that the log book is very mild, but have made probably hundred ex- cisions. The original log book, signed by Major Barttelot, James $. Jameson and William Bonny day after day, is simply just one record of remorseless and i'm placable punishment. There were records of fearfnl ulcers"
 "Were they the result of punish ment ?"
 Simply remorseless fogging Then there is Soudi, whom he mentions him. self as a nice, obedient boy, a quiet child. He gave that little boy kick from which he died. Another man had been f1ogged to death and died at the triangle. Two other men were fogged to death. Another man, made desperate by his hunger, takes a piece of meat, which was standing temptingly by and eats it raw. He is sentenced to 300 lashes by Major
 
 the doctor says: Stop, sir; you'll kill him The answer is: Put him under arrest and let him remain in guard until he recovers and he'll get the other 150 yet The man hears that and runs away by night. He snatches rifle and runs into the forest to lose himself Barttelot sends the entire country hunt ing for him. He is brought back and he is shot. In the log book as it appears in tnorEaSf Afrinaf all forward to complain. But what did they complain of? Sixty men just able to walk, 42 men dying right on their feet. They all did die All these men are my officers. They don't belong to the Com mittee, but were engaged by me, and l asked MT. Bonny: Well, you tell me all these horrible things and these poor people here have told me; how can pos sibly exempt you from being just as guilty as Barttelot in that you did not stop him one way or another. by moral or physical force, from doing all these things?' Bonny said to me that he had not told me half''
 Not an Agent of England. MT. Stanley said he did not go tC Africa as an agent of England, said ht | brought provisions for Emin, and con | cluded a long interview by saying: "Tht whole story will come out some day, and l the only way to have all brought out is | to summon us all to a court of law where every one could be examined ant |