Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-29
BARON GINzBERG EXPOSED.
Winston Churchill Says He is an Ire
 sponsible Person.

Baron H. de Ginzberg's original ac- count of the escape of Winston Churchill from the Boers, printed some time during the baron's visit to this city was cabled to England, and the London reporters besieged Churchill for an interview. It will be remem- bered that the eccentric baron main tained that Churchill had been permit ted to escape, and that he fthe baron) had photographed the Englishman in the act.
 A copy of the London Daily Mail was received to-day, colntaining, . the following interview with Mir Churchill by the papers representative in the lobby of the House of Commons:
 ''I have seen Mir Winston Churchill in regard to the telegram from New York stating that Baron de Ginzberg, for eight years chief of the Transvaal secret police service, declared that the Boers allowed Afr Churchill to escape from Pretoria, and that the baron took snapshots of him in the act of escap- ing.
 "Mr Winston Churchill authorizes me to state that this is the first time AAN AA1c CIVIL AGa1d OA Ql1y odIOu AlC Ginzberg, and that his version of MT Churchill's escape from Pretoria is a lie from beginning to end. Mir Winston Churchill said:
 Not only did the Boers make no arrangements for my escape, but as a humber of witnesses-man of them now in this country-can prove, they made every effort to effect my recap ture.
 With regard to the Baron" hav- ing taken snapshots of me in the act | of escaping, it should be sufficient to say that escaped in the darkness. It was just after D. m., that I escaped from Pretoria, as any of the British officers who were confined in the state model schools can testify-as, for ex. ample, Captain Haldane, who is now in this country.
 The absurdity of the suggestion that the Boers permitted" me to es. cape will be realized when it is re. membered that after my escape. as Captain Haldane and others could tes. tlry, Pretoria was searched from end to end. Great efforts were made to of. feet my recapture, and description of me Quoted in the British press1 was distributed broadcast and even a pric, put on my head. Such a price. tool only 920. This was, of course. adding insult to injury If any statement is | doubted, the names of several officers could be given who are in a position l to testify to the efforts made to effect my recapture.
 The whole statement,' said N, Churchill in conclusion, is just the kind sof desperate lying which one has learn ed to expect on any side of any con. troversy connected with South Africa
 ''The Daily Mail correspondent al Amsterdam telegraphs that he has made inquiries in Kruger quarters a: to the SO called Baron de Ginzberg.
 The correspondent is informed thai the little man who styles himself Baron de Ginzberg used to carry on a small dyeing and cleaning establishment in Pretoria under the sign of The Only Henry
 He occupied no position such as de scribed, but used to haunt the police and law courts with imaginary grieEan ces and was frequently i'll trouble. Di krause, ex-assistant state attorney 1T Johannesburg, who is now in Loadon conducted a prosecution of the Baron which resulted in his being sent to jai l for six months.
 "Ginzberg was not in Pretoria during MT ChurchilIs captivity, having beer expelled as 'an irresponsible undesir able shortly after the outbreak of the war. That is one reason why he did not snapshot MT Winston Churchill's escape"