| Show TilE JAMESO i CASEy CASE-y ery Strong Evidence Concerning Cannibalism MR BONNY GIVES HIS VERSION Of How Major Barttelot Behaved at Ynmbuya The Man May Have Been Crazy Stanleys Story Substantiated Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Nov 10The Sun of today Monday says The London Times will publish this morning the following from its special correspondent in New York who called upon Mr Stanley with a request that he particularize more regarding the I story of cannibalism charged on Mr Jame son Mr Stanley complied with the request re-quest and wrote and senl the following Concerning the story of cannibalism L which is connected with the name of Mr Jameson I first heard it of course from I 111 Bonny I was greatly incredulous froniI I rather suspected there was some animus but he told me I have seen the sketches I and the Zanzibaris who had been to Stanley falls corroborated Mr Bonny The story as Mr Bonny told it to me was not only current in camp but became current along the Congo from Stanley pool to the nyanza We heard no more about the story till I came to Cairo and Asaad Ferran a Syrian Christian formerly interpreter on the ex pedition delivered a written document to me on reading which I saw that the details L detais were circumstantial and related with wonderful clearness and I asked him if the i facts were true which the document con tamed I asked him i he had written them L I himself He answered in ths affirmative afrmatve Two witnesses were called and in their presence I asked him again if the facts in I that document were truthfully related He I answered Yes as a Christian I said Remember these men are dead Whatever harm they may have done you in Africa they can never do you any more harm Therefore think well before you speak Are the facts contained in this paper true Yes he said I swear i and he signed I his name and the two witnesses signed I signld theirs attesting the fact that he had solemnly sworn to the truth of the docu I ment and that he attached his signature with his own hand to it On reaching England I asked Mr John I Rose Troup if the story was true Mr Troup said I have seen the sketches 11 my self Captain Vaugele has also seen them In asking a gentlemen a few days later he said that a reverend gentleman had seen the head and neck of a negro which had been sent home by Mr Jameson to London to be stuffed The clergyman is reported to have said that if he bad such a morbid love for such a monstrous curiosity there t1ero might be considerable truth in the other storylhe The document is very circumstantial The story is presented in circuIstantal manner without any affectation or pro tense and is such a simple plain story that one does not know what to say Jameson had not shown the sketchesand b4d not appeared tq take prie in the fact thatlio was the only living1 white man who had seen this atrocious act of cannibalism Asaad Ferrans story however I might have been struck by tie maunerof relating the details by itself would not have been deemed sufficient evidence to cause me to believe any living white man to be capa ble of such an act The clergyman who is reported to have seen that gnsstly trophy is in London This gentleman is very well known For the present I have no right to mention his name Signed Hssiir 11 STANLEY I NEW YORK November S IS70 |
