The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-26
WARNED BY STANLEY
Major Barttellot's Friends
Would Better be Silent.
THE KILLING WAS NO MURDER.
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York Nevember 3

Lospou. Oct. 3.-TNew York nesus0
cable. STANLEY was interviewed Dy .ne
He,uH correspondent today on the cnAis go
Of Bsrtteliot
TN resa-d to what have written In uafks
Africa about Major Bartpiiot." $40 sre 81
p oref, II have not one word 70 refracI
said then say now, and what say . me - =.
bat only part OF the xath. IDe iess n -
withheld on account Of regard Tor tne isms. =.
particularly the venerable father OF tne 49,,
man, whose brother u nov afssckinR m sns
who may ruuss me 70 declare to the worid 70 =
VIII III know, but Of which he has no conceP
ton. know why Bartteliot lay IDLE o. smcuy.
eleven mouths instead Of carrying out our =.
structions and advancing know WY DeI.so.
lot was killed-killed. SAY, mot muraefsu-1
know why nv personsl e6scss we're sent 49,
20 that when returning found mys redus,u
70 nakedness know. In abort, al the tefFio'e
details Of what happened between the day We
marched forward, leaving the rear guafo :.
splendid condition. anxious to follow on, III
the other day when, marching baekwaru. -
came upon that camp hideous with death anc
disease. AL that know. but out OF PITY LOT
the dead and respect for the living IL has thus
fart emed right TO hold my peace Inc real
truth win, suppose. in the end be Known ior
the truth Is hasd to conceal
'This much. however. ! can say that II VIII
never have come out through any inoiscre-
ton on my part Nor would now contemplate
liz publication but for the wanf0n attack upon
me- have quite sufficient proofs Of AL have
insinuated."
"May ask what b the nature Of these
proofs?'
Stanley thought . minute. and then an
swered:
1.-THE written reports msde by Messrs. Bonney
and Ward are alone quite fuficient 1t 10 true
that Darkest Africa contains reports by Ward
and Bonney. but they are not complete. made
extens v. revisions and suppressed certain por-
tons. and il il precisely in these por ions re-
yised or suppressed that the whole myst-ry OF
the Yambnya camp Is shown"
The correspondent asked Mr.. Stanley to
explain what he meant by saying that
Major Bartteliot had been killed, not MUIR
dered.
'This Is another point upon which win not
speak freely at present." was the reply. This
mrch. however. will say: If the man who
shot Major Bartteilot were put on trial for mar
der In England, under the English law aad be-
fore an Enalish jury, there are no fair-ninded
men in this country who would find him
guilty. Let me call your attention to Z para
g'aph In the report or the majors death. Mr.
Benney writes: The major then IHshed aside
some Of the Manyemo and ordered the woman
who was b. ating the drum and singing TO de-
etsb Suet tueu y ohut We ufSu tnI0uBu . iOHp-
hole In the opposite hut by Sanga, the woman's
husband, and the major fell dead
Now" said Mr.. Stanley, bear In mind that
where hsve printed that paragraph the origi.
nal manuscript has been decidedly altered. Try
to supply in your Imagination what really hap
pened. lmma 6anga was not q slave, but Z
gr ct war Tor and chi of q tribe. Think
what you would DO yourself if you saw your
vile In . similar position. There with he clae
Ihsve given you now, i don't believe You can
60 astray."
Mr. stanley continued: at must admit that
knew from the start that Major Bartteliot was .
thoroughly impractieabl- man, aud when left
him In charge Of the Yambuya camp. told him
plainly that II was only In view Of his high
rank in the English army thst gave him the
highest position instead Of according it TO one
OF the more experienced officers. Ie would
seem - if Barsellott set out deliberately after
my departure 70 carry ont some independent
plan OF his own. knew what that plan was.
and the ofhcers who were with him know also,
and thereby hangs the camp tale which I am
not yet prepared to tell"