| Show Troop Says There Was No Los Book I Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch BOSTO No 9Lirmtpnnnt rrn w uUl aroused at Stanleys statements as pub lished li l in the London Times Mr Stanley is i reported to have said remarked Troup There is tho log book as it was given to me with day after day the accounts of the most terrible punishments The records arc signed by all punishment In denial of this I assert that whie o1cers was in Yambuya camp there never was any log book neither was there any document con taming a record of cruelties or other acts signed by me I never heard of any such things and Mr Stanley can produce no signature of mine to such book or docu ment He gives in Darkest Africa 01 ex tracts from the log book that was kept after the departure of the rear column from Yambuya June 1 being the first date This was begun after I was invalided home on June S and I cannot beheld responsible for anything contained therein His inclu I sion of me in this accusation is onb nna I He desires now to thresh the matter out in a court of lawbut he had an opportunity of doing so last May in connection with L the injunction of my book but rather than L avail himself of that for some reason best known to himself he preferred to compro mise paying my costs that amounted to about two thousand dollars I have de layed my departure for England in order to hear what farther I charges Mr Stanley r 11 has to make I against me but instead of t bringing any forward ho retracts almost 1 all his former remarks except these I now deny So far as I am concerned the con troversy should cease now as Mr Stanley has failed to bring forward any proof that J acted contrary to his written instruc tions instruc |
