The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-05-01
JAMESON'o RAID
Evidence That 1t Was Fathered
by the South Africa Char
tered Company,
And That Jameson, Rhodes. Ham.
mOnd and Others We're in
Communication.
Hammond Opposed Breach OF
the Law Many Prominent
People Involved.

PRETORIA, May 1.-The sensation
Messrs. Hammond, Rhodes, Phillips
and Farrar. and the subsequent com.
mutation Of their sentences, has not by
any means worn itself out. Burghers
of influence are fiocking into this city
from all sides, and are begging the
government to totally abolish the sem
sentences imposed upon the so-called
reformers What influence this will
have on President Kruger and his ad.
visers remains to be seem though it is
currently reported that the executive
court has decided to impose sentences
of FIVE years penal servitude, and at the
expiration of that time Punishment for
life for the four men,. In order to JUS
tify severe treatment of the prisoners
it IS said the executive council refers to
the records of the trial of the reformers.
Worked with tho Chartered Company.
kilograms were put IN evidence
which, from a cipher key discovered i'll
DR.. Jameson's baggage, when he was
made prisoner by the Beers, after the
fight at Dorrnkop, prove beyond doubt,
it was claimed, the completely Of the
British Chartered South Africa COM
pany, with the Johannesburg reform
leaders, and with DR.. Jameson's raid.
The company, it is alleged, opened
credit of $40, 600 in the name Of Colonel
Francis Rhodes, at johannesburg, the
money to be used to organize the raid.
1t is also alleged that the Transvaal
government is in possession of addi.
tional documents, not produced at the
trial, which compromise notable per-
sonages, and officers in South Africa,
and elsewhere.
Exchanged kilograms With Rhodes.
1t has been proved that kilograms in
great numbers were exchanged between
the four reform committee leaders
mentioned, at johannesburg. and Cecil
Rhodes, then premier of Cape Colony,
and Rutherford Harris, secretary Of the
British Chartered South Africa com.
pany at Cape Town, and DIR. Jameson,
when the latter was at Pitsani, between
Dec. 2 and Dec. 81, when the raiders
were being organized and actually in
movement.
These messages alluded to the intend.
ed invasion Of the territory OF the
Transvaal under such expressions as
shareholders meeting" "fioatation
company" etc.
Mr.. Hammond, it seems to be clearly
established. took an active part in the
preparations for the Transvaal force,
and he was the confidential employ
and friend Of Cecil Rhodes.
In one case, for instance, it is shown
that Hammond was instructed by DR..
Jameson to inform weak partners"
that "any delay would be injurious.
Hammond Opposed Breach OF Law.
Other kilograms produced in court
show that the British Chartered South
Africa company was the actual author.
ity for the raid They refer to getting
arms and ammunition from the De
Beers mines, where they had been pre-
viously secretly stored. At the last
moment, however, hitch seems to
have occurred. and dispatches were
sent to DIR. Jameson telling him to
postpone the fioatation" owing to the
difficulties experienced in getting the
assurance of Cecil Rhodes that the au.
thority Of the imperial government was
needed to Cross the border. Hammond
evidently was among those who were
opposed to any breach of law. for a tel
egram from him was produced, dated
Dec. "a, in which he condemned any
further prosecution of the contem.
plated movement.
jameson cut the telegraph wires &C