Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
STORY OF STANLEY.
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guilty. You are all my officers: you are all
bound to be loyal and faithful to me and to the
| best interests of the expedition. You must not
forget that you left England with the ex-
| pressed intention of doing the very best you
could Now, when you get to Africa, you
seem to have forgotten your promises; you
have quarreled with another; you have
made your camp an abode of misery. Instead
of 27l men and officers. you have only 80 men;
| the rest are in their graves or dying. and of
| these men in camp before my eyes 40 cannot
walk. What is the cause of all this? That is the
| information wanted to get from Bonney. He
could not answer because he was the lowest
| officer in the rank, but he said he could let me
have an insight into what had been going on.
REVELATIONS ROM BoNNEY.
1t seems that before my arrival at Yambuya.
and after Barttelot's murder. Bonney had writ
ten report to the committee as he, In common
with others. had thought that was dead. So
when asked him if he had any evidence of
what had taken place he said: Il have letter
which was Just about sending to the commit
tee" They said: "As am here and am your
superior officer of the expedition, have au-
thority to open it." After reading 1t asked
him to address it to me chief OF the expedi-
ton instead of the committee, and 1t was in
this way that prevented that report OF his
from going to England. -'r-
have that letter. 1t explained very clearly
what had happened. 1t was written before
arrived. Therefore l have Bonneys report,
Troup's two letters, Wards account, which
received, and more important than all, have
the log book signed by the officers day after
day. Without any other evidence that log book
OF itself would prove that was justified in my
censure of the rear column. which was very
mild in my letter to the committee. Am 60
ing to publish that log? l cannot say. think
it better to wait while, till have read Troup's
book.
BoNNEY COULD TELL 1T ALL.
Bonney could remove all this criticism by
fall Inof hn and nils aiD
simple story of what took place; how it was
that Major Barttelot was killed; how it was
these men died Ike sheep; that the rear column,
so grandly equipped before starting, fell to rot.
Pasha, and we all have heard it. but also have
his written story recorded at the time. The
log book was written every day,
Cured during the day 1t is signed
officially by whoever the officer of the day.
The log book is very valuable, and with the
in my censure of tine rear Column and acduit
me of the charge that L have acted otherwise
than an honorable man and an officer.
Barttelot was shot on July 19, and arrived
on the scene on August IL, therefore did not
see the deed nor did witness the causes
which led to 1t. The whole and sole cause was
the violent temper of the Major.
CAUSE OF BARTTELoT's DEATH.
Barttelot had just come from Nyanza and
was in camp where the rear guard had camped
before. His very presence seemed to stir up
the natives in camp. He demanded go men
from the Arab chief as couriers, when he had
already had all that was necessary. The chief
told him that he could not give them to
him. for they were not to be found. He
threatened him with reporting his denial and
again demanded the men. and then complained
to Bonney. Bonney told him he had enough
men already, and if he put the l5 loads of
rifles into their hands they could go
ahead and protect themselves. That was
1nl lp
and beat him with a cypress stick, and left him
in horrible condition. Early on the morning
of July 19 Barttelot was awakened and dis
turbed by loud singing and beating of drums. He
sent his sergeant to find out who made the
noise. The sergeant reported he could find no.
body responsible for it. He then sent his little
woman was singing and the men were drum
ming which is the Africans custom IN saluting
the rising sun.
BARTTELoT KILLED BY THE CHIEF.
Barttelot said with an oath that he would
shoot the first one who refused to stop the
noise and suiting the action to the word he
took down his revolver and marched out to
find the native singers. He found near the
chefs hut woman who was the chiefs wife,
She was singing and the men drumming. He
told them to stop, and the woman looked at him
in defiant way and kept on, for all the
natives hated him. He then struck and kicked
her. She screamed and her husband. who was
in the hut, not five yards away Gle aning his
gun, looked out Of loephole, and seeing
Barttelot abusing his wife he put his gun
lot instantly. The murderer was chief
not slave, and these men love their,
wives as much as you do here. 1t
done in a spasm of anger. to protect his
wife from the officers brutal treatment. From
what reports l can obtain he made himself
very distasteful to the natives. He had habit
making faces at them. He had four front teeth
he showed these it made the natives e
RELY on Mr.. Bonney, for there were 500 people
who could tell me how the affair happened
Both Arab and native chiefs went over it very
minutely: and although they might be some
what prejudiced, they agreed to the letter in
their statements of facts. 1 warned him to
look out for the Arab chief and eulogized his |
character as compared with white mans |
nature.
TERRIBLE TALES OF CRUELTY.
There was no accusation against Barttelot, as
is generally supposed, of immoral conduct with |
the chiefs wife? never said any such thing
as that, nor intimated it. There was no I'M
moral action of any of the men as far as known.
THE log book of the camp. signed by Bart
telot Jameson Bonney and Ward, were SIM
ply one long account of remorseless f1ogging
and inhumanity. One man had an ulcer seven |
inches in diameter which was full of maggots
caused by a severe beating. Barttelot even
kicked his little boy. Soultie, whom he himself
said was an interesting quaint little boy and
from the injuries of which he died.
One man took piece of raw mea: because he
has nearly craZed with hunger and ate it. For
this he was ordered to receive 300 lashes. The
doctor told Barttelot that if it was not stopped
1t would kill him. AS soon as the man was able
he ran away into the bush, but was captured
and shot by Barttelot's orders Bonney said to
me few days ago, 1 haven't told you half of
the horrors that existed in that camp, but it
will all come out some time
Mr.. Stanley, when he returns to England,
may bring an action OF libel against Bart
telot's brother. in order to sift the matter to
the bottom so that the world may Judge.
He has Hospital Sergeant Bonney's diary,
but will not make 1t public at present
FIGHTING THE CoNGER BILL.