Show t Consul WKeed lewis Aiiives from Morocco HE CONTRADICTS THE SLANDERS 1 That were s6 Industriously Ch ulatedtbout Him The Personal Venom of the British Minister and His Wife Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch LONDON Jan l4By cable to the New York WeiltIW ReedLewis arrived here yesterday from Tangier When Blaine earned that Lewis did not wish to go to he United States till he had sifted the gossip of Tangier which accused him of t murdering his wife ho wired him that while the state department gave no heed to gossip of this nature he wanted him to obey the summons to go to Washington If he did not wish to return he could resign Lewis cabled back refusing to resign saying say-ing he was a victim of persecution and that his resignation would place the United States government in a false position Blames response was cabled to Consul iei Sprague at Gibaltar ordering Lewis removal re-moval Sprague acting under instruc ions place Vice Consul Stalker charge When Stalker was appointed Lewis started for the United States I called noon Lewis yesterday Your side of this queer story has not yet been told I shall tell it when I get to Washing ton he answered I am prepared to defend end myself in every particular What have you to say to the Ainericau people who have been told of these serious charges against youl So far as the charges growing out of protecting Americanized Moors charges of extortion charges of raising money under false pretenses charges of whipping miscreants mis-creants are concerned I will say nothing hose were answered by me in person before be-fore Mr Blaine last summer and this is sufficient answer that 1 was returned to my post When I got back to Tangier I learned for the first time that reports enamatiug from Lady Kirby Green wife of the British sh ambassador in Morocco accused me of murdering my wife I called on Sir W Kirby Green who told me that his wife vas not an official person that he as minister minis-ter was not to be held responsible for anything any-thing she said Kirby Green advised me and subsequently subse-quently wrote me to the same effect that he best policy was to treat the gossip as vomans tittletattle and let the whole matter mat-ter drop I said to him that reports which accused a man of murdering his wife could hardly be considered tittletattle i had nothing further till I had occasion to > call on the German ambassador on a business matter one day and he refused to receive me because of the reports that had been circulated about me during mr absence This snub compelled me to take 1 official notice of the current gossip Consul Folsom of Sheffield was in Tangier on leave of absence at the time and at my suggestion he received permission permis-sion from the state department to take the evidence Kirby Green his wife and others who are connected with the foriegn embassies and consulates at Tangier who had been instrumental in circulating the reports against me were asked to put their words on record under oath but all refused re-fused All the testimony thatcouldbo obtained was taken and sent to Washington For instance Lady Kirby Green made the statement that a servant in my house had said that the night my wife died the door to the room was locked and that I refused to open it when she wished to respond to cries ot distress But the servant referred to was willing to testify under oath that she never said such a thing on the contrary con-trary she never heard any cries of stress Further the night my wife died the servants ser-vants were constantly passing in and out of the room My wife was conscious till the moment she died We had just returned re-turned from a trip through Spain when she was taken ill She had been suffering from heart disease for years When she was taken ill on the night of her death I applied ap-plied the treatment recommended by Dr Gray who had been attending her I did administer chloroform to ease pain but not in sufficient quantity to render her unconscious un-conscious She was not unconscious before be-fore she died Dr Gray was examined before be-fore Consul Folsom and said that he had treated my wife for heart disease and that he had told me death was likely to occur any moment I asked Dr Gray if he considered an inquest in-quest necessary He said no If an inquest in-quest had been ordered then as coroner for American subjects as well as consul I should have been compelled to sit on an inquest in-quest over my wifes body Testimony was also taken from Dr Wood of Philadelphia who had treated my wife for hear trouble He visited my wife socially the very day she died The servants ser-vants who were in at the time of her death the undertaker and several other witnesses were examined Their testimony disposes of the ridiculous talk in the New York newspapers to the effect that my wifes I lace was eaten by rats For the sake of Jl my children I was compelled to take notice of the reports against me to prove them false and put myself in a position to deal with the people who circulated them What gave occasion for Mr Elaines telegram ordering you to report to Washington J Wash-ington and which you received only a few days after your return from there The reason of this is that New Yorker named Adams who kept a hotel at Tangier Tan-gier had a shooting gallery on the beach He received a case of fire arms five revolvers re-volvers four shotguns and eight parlor rifles I issued an order from the American Ameri-can consulate admitting them through the custom house This was the usual practice prac-tice at Tbngier The goods were seized and locked up I managed to get at them and put the American consular seal and flag on them I notified the Moors that they could keep that flag locked up as long as they felt disposed to do so The same day fortyeight piatols were passed by the French consulate The day following a largo case of arms were passed by the British consul I insisted that the Amer jean consulate snouia nave toe same privilege priv-ilege as other nations The next morning I was notified that tho Moroccan minister fOKforeign affairs Mohammed Feres had sent a dispatch to Mr Blaine in the name of the Sultan demanding my recall I am prepared to prove that the Sultan knew nothing about tim dispatch till four days after it was sent In fact not until Mr Blames answer had been received there calling me to Washington I am also prepared pre-pared to prove that the minister of foreign affairs not knowing word English did not write the dispatch himself hut simply signed dispatch written for him by ftle kin editor of a British newspaper at Tangier Tan-gier who had taken no pains to concoalthe fact that he is my personal enemy H personally wrote and seat the dIsptb which Mr Blaina answered1 by recalling me to Washington Neither tfae Sultan set theMoorish government knew of ft ftt the J time and I do not comprehendwhat th rowTras about = |