COMPLICITY PROVEN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1262, 7 May 1896, Page 13

COMPLICITY PROVEN.

THE CHARTERED CO.'S CHEQUES PAY EXPENSES OF JAMESON'S FREEBOOTERS. London, March 15. The sympathy for Dr Jameson and his troopers' is so strong and practically universal in all influential quarters here that their trial is quite sure to be a farce. Little indeed of the ival truth is likely to come out, and it is a risky thing for a correspondent to quote even what seems to be a most, important and well-attested fact concerning the raid. Nevertheless, the following story concerning an American conies to me on such trustworthy authority, and as it is possible that in the future if may cause somewhat serious complications, I give it. There has been a certain Mnjor Ileaney in London of whom this paragraph is published to-day: "Major Ileaney, the American citizen who was a member of Dr Jameson's force, is at present ill London. His movements have not been in any way impeded nor will he be proceeded against by the authorities, but his exact whereabouts is unknown.'' My very authoritative informant says that President Kruger has furnished the liritish Government with diicct evidence of the complicity of the British South Africa Company in the Jameson raid. The IJoer authorities have proved that on December 28 this Ileaney left Johannesburg by a special train for Mafeking, carrying a despatch from the Reform Committee to Jameson, it was tho next day, and on receipt of this despatch, that Jameson started on his raid, being accompanied by Ileaney. cuAitTEHEU company's cheques.

President Kruger has also shown that the special train which took Ileaney to Jameson was subsequently paid for by a cheque drawn by the British South Africa Company. Thoquestion'of prosecuting Major Heauey with the rest of Jameson's ollicors formed the subject of negotiations between the Boer Government and the liritish authorities, and the former had Consented to waive tho right of prosecution in his case to obviate, the possibility of complications with the United States. But a curious dilliculfy now arises. I'eaney, not being a liritish subject, would naturally decline to answer to a subpoena to givo evidence on the trial of Jameson, so that unless President Kruger reverses his former decision and brings him to trial at Pretoria, Ileaney's highly important testimony respecting the origin of the raid will be lost.

The liritish authorities, for their part, are not too eager to sift the affair to the bottom, but Mr Kruger's policy is to damage the South Africa Company to tho utmost extent in order to check its power of promoting further trouble in his republic, and therefore ho may request or demand lleaney's return to Pretoria.

Ileaney openly and without molestation sailed from Southampton for the United Stales, where he is well known as a soldier of fortune, equally ready to take a hand in either war or politics. Hois a handsome man of distinguished bearing—an ideal cavalier; and during the Presidential campaign of IK'Jli in the United States wis sorgeunt-at-arms at the Filth avenue, Now Vori:, headquarters of the National Democratic Convention. Ho expected a fat oilice from President Cleveland, but did not get if. In his disappointment he went to South Africa in search of adventure and fortune.