St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-08
Stanley Assails the Character
Of BarttelOt, and Charges
Jameson With Murder.
Premier Crispi and Chaneel-
lor Caprivi Have a Confer
ence at Milan.
Heavy Gales on the Coast Of
Britain Causing Many
Wrecks.
Three Hundred Chinese La
borers Killed by an Ex-
plosion OF Powder.

LONDON, Nov. THE Times this
morning prints three. column signed
statement. which Stanley dictated to
Its New York correspondent. LIN this
Stanley accuses Maj Barttelot of per-
sistent and vindictive cruelty to the
people under his command, which di-
rectly led TO his death. Stanley says
that he himself would have acquitted
the murderer. He adds that Barttelot
entertained and expressed the widest
and most unfounded suspicious, which
extended to the belief that STAN
ley would not hesitate to poi
son Barttelot, and had formed
design TO abandon the
expedition and carry out his own pro-
jects with the conniyance of Jameson
and Tippo lib. Stanley accuses jane
son of having purchased a girl for the
sole purpose of having her murdered,
so that cannibalistic scene might he
furnished for his sketch book. Stanley
admits that the information was OBJ
tanned from Bonney, Ian !ibaris, Arabs
Manyemas. The only basis he gives
for the Jameson story is that Euro
lean showed him sketches and that he
had seen the evidence reported to the
authorities Of the Congo state. The
Times says:
IF these charges are true. they will COM
pei all Englishmen to execrate the memory
of men who could bring such disgrace to the
name ana fame of nation which yields to
none in its regard for humanity and justice.
We must, however. admit that the evidence
is far from conplete,and as regards Jameson,
the charge is deplorably vague"
Defends His Brothers. Character.
Mr.. Barttelot says that Stanley's ac-
count of his brothers death is com
pletely at variance with Jamison's ac-
count and SOrga's confession. Lieut..
Baert, one of the officers who tried
Sorga, says that Stanley's assertion
that an English jury would have &C
quilted the murderer seems an i'm
parchment Of the court martiaI'S fair
ness. Sorga's only defense was that
Barttelot was about to strike his wife,
and as the Manyema penalty for MUIR
der is merely pecuniary, SUrga needed
no further proyocation. Bonney did
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. In
JuStifying his brothers. severity, it was
necessary under the circumstances, and
only the same as that to which Stanley
was accustomed to resort. ana MIR. Bart
telot declares that Stanley only raised
the question in order to throw dust in
the eyes of the public, and that he is
quite ready 10 meet him in court of
law and diyuige everything. He
also declares that it has been
clearly proved that his brother
met his death while carving
out SANKEY'S instructions to the letter.
MIR. Barttelot says that although the
rear column was composed of feeble and
sick men and the worst characters, and
it was in miserable condition through
famine and inactivity, the mortality was
less than in Stanley's column. Barltelot
says the offense punished with 800
iashes was deSertion. not theft,
and that Soudi's death oc-
Cured long after Maj. Bartte-
lots. He quotes from Darkest
Africa" Stanley's inquiries of natives,
who disprOved charges of cruelty, and
distinctly stated that the mortality was
due to bad and insufficient food. Bart
ttlot was absent from June "A TO July
II, and was killed July 10, therefore he
could not have been responsible for the
decentralization of the camp. Nothing
could have been worse than Stanley'S
leaving Nelson and party twenty-three
days without food, which action result
ed in the death of forty-seyen of them