How Stanley Disposed of a Traitor.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 28 April 1890, Page 2

How Stanley Disposed of a Traitor.

» ' — :—- --.At its usual Saturday night dinner the Savage Club entertained Lieutenant Stairs, Stanley's lieutenant who arrived in London on the prerioue daj, Mr Wellcome, the honorary secretary to the forthcoming American dinner to Stanley, being in the chair. The company in. eluded Mr Tkomas SterenV tb« famous bicyclist, Mr Paul Dv Chaillu, Sir William Robinson, th§ Gorernor of Western Australia, - and Governor Waller, late Con»ul'G«n'eial of the United States. Lientenant Stairs, in an unaffected and telling way, paid a very high tribute first to Stanley as a commander, and then to fctevens for hjg bravery in making the daeh single-handed through the hostile Binheri country and through the German military lines, coming in o the camp on foot and alone to greet the remnants of the Expedition. Both Stairs and Stevens defccribed Stanley and Emm as differing greatly in temperament, but each they stated had the greatest admiration of the other, and thoir relations were most friendly. One anecdote told by Mr Stevens of th« way in which Btanl«y disposed of the Egyptian officer who was conricted of having plotted to hand the expedition over to the Mahdi is woith repeating. Stanley, who was suffer ing with acute gastritis, had himself sarried iv a chair outside the Unt. Turning to the incriminated officer, ht said : '• We have come through' a thousand difficulties to save you and yi>urs. Meanwhile you . have bein plotting to destroy us. Depart to God" laying these words he pointed to a lough of a tree, where justice was done after the fashion of Judge Lynch.— P. M. Budget.