Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-11-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MAJOR BART TELOT WAS MURDERED. Mr. H. M. Stanley, on his arrival in New York, was received by • number of friends. He gave an interview to some Press men. He said that Major Barttalons offence was inhuman treatment of those under his orders, but charged nothing immoral. Major Barttelot, he said, beat men to death ; killed his little servant boy, a mere lad, by • kick; and beat the wife of a chief until her shrieks attracted her husband. Major Barttelot was thoroughly hated by the natives. Be would grin with a fiendish grin in their faces, and beat them with a heavy, iron-pointed cypress staff until the poor wretches shrank from him with fear. Two men were so cruelly beaten that their ulcers measured 7ln. in diamebsr by nearly lie, deep. Stanley again described Barttelot's death. Ho says they were awakened by the beating of drums and singing, it being the fashion among the Manuems tribe to hail the dawn with music. The major then went out with a loaded revolver and a cypress staff and commanded silence. The woman was defiant, and he knocked her down, prodded her with his staff, and also kicked her. Her screams brought her husband, who was near by cleaning his gun, and the latter, seeing Major Barttelot abusing his wife, shot him dead. The act was committed in a fit of anger by the chief, acting in defence of his wife. Mr. Stanley, says • Reuters telegram, intends to bring an action against Major Barttelot's brother. A SIGNED STATEMENT, Mr. Stanley was subsequently seen in New York by a correspondent of the Ttift,, to whom he dictated a : statement, which he afterwards signed, repeating his story of Major Barttelot's cruelty, and Says the deceased actually entertained the belief that he (Mr. Stanley) would poison him. Major Barttelot and Mr. Jameson had picked up a skit from some irresponsible newspaper to the effect that "it was odd Stanley had never returned from Africa except alone." Mr. Stanley next gives an account of Major Barttelotai treatment of the natives, repeating some statements which have been already published. He says : I was told that Major Barttelot's life was saved twice by Mr. Bonny, once when Major Barttelot had suddenly seized n woman and fastened his teeth in her shoulder. I was told that with a steelpointed cypress staff he had run about the camp prodding his people with it, and then flourishing the stick and hitting about him indiscriminately. And all this without apparent cause. A Manyuema chief, comrade of the man Sanga, reported to me that he had been prodded 17 times one day only a day or two before the major was killed by Sanga The little boy Soudy, whose death I have recorded in Darkest Africa,' was a little fellow ten years old; and of him Mr. Barttelot says in his book, In a general way, that he was • • clever little fellow,' while 1 have described him in my book as a, wise-headed little fellow.' Major Barttelot, irritated with little Soudy One morning, gave him a kick with his heavy boot, and from the effects of that kick the boy died. John Henry, a mission lad, was flogged with 300 lashes, and died soon after." Without any idea that it might have been said in jest, Mr. Stanley brings the charge against the ill-fated major that when the deserters from the advance column reached Yambuya, and told Major Barttelot a graphic tale about my having been killed, he exclaimed, "Thank Clod! I shall be made s colonel  • MR. S fANLEY