How Stanley Sentenced the Rebel.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 466, 26 April 1890, Page 6

How Stanley Sentenced the Rebel.

Lieutenant Stairs, R. E. (one of the members ot Mr Stanley’s expedition), Mr Paul du Chaillu, and Mr T. Stevens, the American journalist who made his way many miles from Bagomoyo in order to welcome Stanley, were present at the meeting of the Savage Club on Saturday night. Lieutenant Stairs, who is a young man, tall and fair, informed us (says a writer in the 4 Daily News ’) that he ha* one of the Congo forest dwarfs in stock in Zanzibar, and intends to bring him to London when the warm weather sets in. In one of his graphic letters, it will be remembered, Stanley describes a mutiny amongst the cowardly rascals whom he rescued, and briefly states that he executed the ringleaders and had no more trouble from traitors. Mr Stevens told us how the execution was carried out. ‘At the time,’ he said, 4 Stanley was so weak that he could not turn in his bed without help, but so strong was his iron will that he insisted upon being taken out of bed and propped up in a chair. He took a strong stimulant, and had himself carried outside of his tent where the people were all drawn up, and where the* mutineer who had been tried and found guilty awaited his sentence. The chair was put down and Stanley faced the miscreant, the fever in his eye, and his thin hand outstretched. “We have come through a thousand difficulties and dangers to save you,” he said, 44 and this is our reward 1 Depart to God!” The people thereupon rushed upon the man shouting, “ What shall we do with him ?” Send him to God, I say !” shouted Stanley, pointing to the overhanging limb of a tree. A rope was thrown over, noosed round the miscreant’s neck, and he was swiftly run up, and soon dangled a corpse in the air.’