Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-02
THE GREEK TRAGEDY.
CIrcumstantiaI Account OF After
scenes-The Discovery ef the Mutt
lated Bodies. -l OH. -.-..--H-

CIrcumstantiaI Account of After
Scenes-The Discovery ef the Mutt
lated Bodies. .2- a.- 3,-.-31
A letter from Athens in the Augsburg
Gazette gives a somewhat circumstantial
account of the tragedy. The writer after
giving reasons which, in bis opinion, JUS
titles that course, says that the Greek
Government gave orders that the band
should be surrounded, not with view of
taking offensive measures against II, but
tO:compel il TO accept the ransom and the
exile, beyond which concessions N Zaimis
and his colleagues, in their intense regard
for the Constitution, could not 60, aud
proceeds to de .cribe the consequences of
that decision. We give the substance of
his story: "When the brigands found
that the troops were approaching them
on all sides they determined, on Thurs,
day, the 2lst of April, at in the
afternoon, to escape across the
AsOpus TO the sea coast, in the intention
OF crossing over into Eubea. They drag
ged their prisoners, wet through and ex-
hausted by fatigue and sickness, to the
stream swollen by the recent heavy rains,
and endeavored to compel them to swim
across. Count Boyl, who was suffering.
from lung disease, refused. He was laid.
hold of, and would have been carried
across, but the robbers perceived the gun
boat Aphroessa off the coast, and num-
Der of soldiers suddenly appeared on the
other side of the stream. They imme-
diately cut him down with their yatagans
and fed, taking with them the rest of the
prisoners. The troops plunged in the
stream in terrible rage, many Of them
were carried away by it, but the rest
climbing the shore holly pursued the
brigands. They had not got far before
they came upon the bloody and
still quivering cOrpses of Mr.. Vyner and
Mr.. Herbert, killed by the knives
of the brigands. The shots fired
drew other attachments of soldiers to the
chase, and before nightfaH nine of the
brigands were killed. One, severely
wounded, was taken prisoner, and the
interpreter had escaped. Mr.. Lloyd,
however, still alive, was in the hands of
the brigands, who, nine in number, with
three wounded, had taken refuge in the
thicket A later telegram from Thebes,
the correspondent says, announces that
the multilated corpse of Mr. Lloyd had
been found in the ihicket. The cores
pOndent proceeds to describe the effect of
this news in Athens. He pictures the
groups in the streets on Good Friday
morning-the Greeks, it must be remem-
bered, still use the old style-and the
general feeling of dismay and disgust.
And, moreover, although evidently a
warm friend of the government, and re-
pudiating with indignation the charge
brought in the most distinct manner by
the opposition organs against Soutzos, the
Minister of War, of completely with the
brigands, he records as q fact that the gov
eminent were aware of the irruption
| of this particular band into Attica when
/ they allowed and encouraged Lord Mum
caster and his friends to make their trip.
Writing upon the 23d, the correspondent,
after describing the arrival of the bodies
| at the railway station and the religious
ceremonies, proceeds to give these details:
''Mr. Herbert and Mr.. Lloyd had several
mortal dagger stabbs, but the life of both
was probably taken in the same way, for
DON 0a(l SnOt-guu WOundS uHttei lHCA iShA
and left ear. The severely wounded pris-
Oner had been subjected in Thebes to an
examination, in which he made remarka-
BILE revelations. On Sunday, the 14th of
April, the band was in the neighborhood
of Athens, and a parsonage unknown to
the bandits informed them of theprojected
trip of the foreigners. On the day OF
Lord Muncaster's liberation, there ap-
peared in the course of the night in the
brigand camp two masked personages re,
eeived with much reference by the leaders
who urged the brigands to insist upon ar
amnesty. The correspondent OF tn
Augsburg Gazette subsequently states hi
impression that only the establis kment oil
martial law can put down brigandage."