Identifier: turkhislostprovi00curt (find matches)
Title: The Turk and his lost provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Greece -- Description and travel Bulgaria -- Description and travel Serbia -- Description and travel Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Description and travel
Publisher: Chicago London : F.H. Revell Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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captors were
not black shirts or regular brigands. She says that
their arms and equipments were all new; that they
were in communication with friends in Sofia and
received regular and prompt information from that
city. She speaks well of them, appreciates their kind-
ness and courtesy, and in her letters to Dr. House and
others certifies that they are entirely trustworthy.
Dr. House, Dr. Peet and Mr. Gargiulo, who had
several interviews with her captors, testify that they
were " neither shepherds nor husbandmen, but men of
education and some polish," especially the chief, who
knew some English.
Mr. Gargiulo calls attention to a singular circum-
stance. He says that it is the custom for brigands to
give their captives a liberal contribution from the
ransom paid for their release. He mentions that when
Colonel Singe, an Englishman, was ransomed in 1880,
each brigand in the band gave him a handful of gold,
from £20 to £25 sterling, before leaving him. In other
cases of abduction by regular brigands the same
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A MACEDONIAN READY FOR REVOLUTION

THE KIDNAPING OF MISS STONE 239

practice has been followed, but in Miss Stone's case
her captors were not so generous. They gave her no
money whatever, which, Mr. Gargiulo argues, indi-
cates that they are unfamiliar with the etiquette of
brigandage; that it was new business for them, and
therefore they are not regular brigands. This confirms
the belief that they are members of the Macedonian
Committee
Assuming that the conspiracy to kidnap Miss Stone
was hatched and carried out by the Macedonian Com-
mittee, the motives are easily understood:
(1) The Macedonian Committee, having an empty
treasury, needed money for arms and ammunition.
(2) They desired to terrify the American mission-
aries into cooperation with them in their efforts to
secure the emancipation of Macedonia from Turkish
rule. While the sympathies of the missionaries hav
ealways been with the Macedonian patriots, they have
carefully abstained from doing anything to excite the
criticism provoke the hostility of the Turks..

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