The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-14
STANLEY CONTROVERSY.
Some OF the Charges Made Against
Bartte!ot and JaneAon.

Some of the Charges Made Against
BarttelOt and Jameson.
LONDON, Nov. a.-Mr. Barttelot says
that Stanley's account of his brothers
death is completely at variance with
Jameson's account and Sorga's convic-
ton.
Sorga's defense was that Barttelot
was about to strike his wife, and as the
Manyema penalty for murder is merely
pecuniary, Sorga needed no further prov
ocation. Bonny d not appear until
after the scene. and If Stanley depends
on the accounts of the Manyemas he
must remember that they were relatives
of the murderer Bartteiot's severity
was necessary under the circumstances,
and only the same as that to which
Stanley was accustomed to resort
Barttelot declares that Stanley only
raised the question in order to throw
dust in the eyes of the public, and that
he is quite ready to meet him in court
of law and divulge every thing. He
also declares that it has been clearly
proved that his brother met his death
while carrying out SANKEY'S instruc-
lions TO the letter
Barttelot says that although the expe-
dition was composed of feeble men and
the worst characters and was in misera-
BILE condi ton through famine and in
activity the mortality was less than in
Stanley's column. The offense punished
with 500 lashes was desert; on, not theft,
and Soudi's death occurred long after
Major BartteIots. He quotes from
Darkest Africa" Stanley's inquiry of
the natives, who disproved the charges
of cruelty and distinctly stated that the
mortality was only due to bad and in
sufficient food. Barttelot was absent
from June pa to July II and was killed
July 10, therefore he could not have
been responsible for the dem oralization
of the camp Nothing could have been
worse than Stanley's leaving Nelson
and party twenty-three days without
food, which action resulted in the death
of foriy-seven of them
The Times this morning prints a
three column artlcie signed Stanley
which Stanley ctated to its New York
correspondent In this Stanley accuses
Ma or Bartteiot of persistent and vim
dictive cruelty to plumber his command
which directly led to his death. Stan
ley says that he himself would have
acquitted the murderer. He adds that
Bartte.Ot entertained and ex pressed the
widest and most unfounded suspicious
which extended 10 the belief that Stan
ley would not hesitate to poison Bartte-
lot and had formed design to abandon
the expedition and carry out his own
projects with the connivance of jane
son and Tippoo lib. He accuses jane
son of having purchased a girl for the
sole purpose of having her murdered so
that cannibaiistic scene might be fur
nished for his sketch book. Stanley
admits that the information was OBJ
tanned from Bonny, Zanzibarls. Arabs
and Manyenas. The only basis he
g ives for the Jameson story is that an
European showed him sketches, and
they had seen the evidence reported to
the author. ties of the Congo State.
The Times says: If these charges
are true they will compel all English
men to eNecrate the memory of the man
who could bring such disgrace to his
name, family and Nation which yields
TO none in this regard for humanity and
just c. We must, however. admit that
the evidence is far from complete and
as regards Jameson, the charge is de-
piorably vague"