The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-15
GOSSIP OF TANGIER.
Consul w. Reed Lewis Arrives
from Morocco.
HE CONTRADICvs THE ISLANDERS
That were so Industriously Circulated About
Him-The Personal Venom Of the
British Minister and His Wife.

LONpON, CdDlt W Tile NEW
York World wv. Reed Lewis arrived here
yesterday from Tangier. When Blaine
learned that Lewis did not wish to go to
the United States till he had sifted the
gossip of Tangier, which accused him of
numbering his wife, he wired him that
while the state department gave no heed to
gossip of this nature, he wanted him to
obey the summons to go to Washington. Ii
he did not wish to return he could resign
Lewis cabled back refusing to resign, say
ing he was victim of persecution and that
his resignation would place the United
States governne in a false position.
Blaine's response was cabled to Consul
Sprague at Gibaltar ordering Lewis re
moval. Sprague acting under instruc-
tions placed Vice Consul Stalker in charge
When Stalker was appointed Lewis started
for the United States. called UPON Lewis
yesterday.
your side of this queer story has not
yet been told.'
II shall tell it when l get to Washing
ton" he answered. II am prepared to de-
| fend myself In every particular"
''What have you to say to the American
people who have been told of these serious
charges against you!''
$50 far as the charges growing out of
protecting Americanized Moors, charges of
extortion, charges of raising money under
false pretenses, charges of whipping mis-
creantS are concerned, will say nothing
Those were answered by me in person be-
fore Mr.. Blaine last summer, and this is
sufficient answer that was returned to
my post.
''When 7 got back to Tangier l learned
for the first time that reports enamatiug
from Lady Kirby Green, wife of the Brit
ish ambassador IN Morocco, accused me OF
numbering my wife. | called on Sir w.
Kirby Green, who told me that his wife
was not an official person, that he as minis
ter was not to be held responsible for any
thing she said.
''Kirby Green advised me, and subse-
quently wrote me TO the same effect, that
the best policy was to treat the gossip as
woman's tittle-tattle and let the whole mat
ter drop. L said to him that reports which
accused a man of numbering his wife
could hardly be considered tittle-t attle.
IL had nothing further till 1 had occasion
to call on the German ambassador on a
business matter one day, and he refused to
receive me because of the reports that had
been circulated about me during ny,
absence. This snub compelled me to take
official notice of the current gossip.
Consul Folsom, of Sheffield was in
Tangier on leave of absence at the time
and at my suggestion he received permits
sion from the state department. to take the
evidence. Kirby Green, his wife, ard
others who are connected with the foreign
embassies and consulates at Tangier who
had been instrumental in circulating the
reports against me were asked to put their
words on record under oath, but all re
| fused
''All the testimony that could be obtained
was taken and sent to Washington. For
instance, Lady Kirby Green made the
| statement that q servant in nv hOuSa had
said that the night my wife died the door
to the room was locked and that | refused
to open it when she wished to respond to
cries OF distress. But the servant referred
to was willing to testify under oath that
she never said such thing; on the con-
trary. she never heard any cries of distress.
Further, the night my wife died the SER
wants were constantly passing in and out
of the room. My wife was conscious till
the moment she died. We had Just re-
turned from trip through Spain when she
was taken i'll. She had been suffering from
heart disease for years. When she was
| taken i'll on the night of her death, ap-
piled the treatment recommended by Dr.
| Gray, who had been attending her. did
administer chloroform to ease pain, but not
in sufficient quantity to render her I'M
conscious. She was not unconscious be-
| fore she died. DR.. Gray was examined be-
fore Consul Folsom, and said that ne had
and that he had told me death
was likely to occur any moment.
1 asked DR.. Gray if he considered an in
quest necessary. He said no. If an il
quest had been ordered, then as coroner for
American subjects as well as consul, 1
should have been compelled to sit on an in
quest over my wife's body.
Testimony was also taken from Dr.
Wood, of Philadelphia, who had treated my
wife for heart trouble. He visited my wife
socially the very day she died. The SER
wants who were in at the time of her death,
the undertaken and several other witnesses
were examined. Their testimony disposes
: of the ridiculous talk in the New York
newspapers to the effect that my wife's
face was eaten by rats. For the sake of
my children was compelled to take notice
of the reports against me, to prove them
false and put myself in a position to deal
with the people who circulated them"
"What gave occasion for Mr.. Blaines
telegram ordering you to report to Wash
ington and which you received only few
days after your return from there."
1.-THE reason of this is that New Y orker
named Adams who kept hotel at Tan
gier, had a shooting gallery on the beach.
He received a case of fire arms, five re-
volvers, four shotguns and eight parlor
rifles. issued an order from the Ameri-
can consulate admitting them through the
D custom house. This was the usual prac-
? tice at Tongier The goods were seized
0 and locked up. managed to get at them
5 and put the American consular seal and
: flag on them. 1 notified the Moors that
e they could keep that flag locked up as long
< as they felt disposed to do so. The same
: day forty eight piatols were passed by the
a French consulate. The day following a
f large case of arms were passed by the
British consul. insisted that the Amer
lean consulate should have the same priv
ilege as other nations. The next morning
a 1 was notified that the Moroccan minister
= for foreign affairs, Mohammed Feres, had
4 sent dispatch to Mr.. Blaine in the name
. of the Sultan demanding my recall. / am
y prepared to prove that the Sultan knew
= nothing about the dispatch till four days
: after it was sent. In fact, not until Mr..
y Blaines answer had been received there
y calling me to Washington. / am also pre-
v pared to prove that the minister of foreign
!, affairs, not knowing a word Of English, did
! not write the dispatch himself, but simply
n signed dispatch written for him by Me
: kin, editor of British newspaper at Tan
4 gier who had taken no pains to conceal the
y fact that he is my personal enemy. He
q personally wrote and sent the dispat h
= which Mr. Blaine answered by recalling
r me to Washington Neither the Sultan nc1
the Moorish government knew OF it at thu
time. and / do not comprehend what all th.
row was about
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