The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-06-03
H GREEK TRAGEDY.
Ctrcumstantial Account of After
Scenes-The Discovery OF the Mutila-
ted ROdieS

ted Bodies.
A letter from Athens in the Augsburg
Gazette gives a somewhat circumstantia
account of the tragedy. The writer, after
giving reasons which, in his opinion, justi-
fies that course, says that the Greek gov
eminent gave orders that the band should
be surrounded, not with a view of taking
offensive measures against it, but to COM
pei ii to accept the ransom and the exile,
beyond which concessions NJ. Zaimis and
his colleagues, in their intense regard for
the Constitution, could not CO., and pro-
ceeds to describe the consequence of that
decision. We give the substance of his
story: when the brigands found that the
troops were approaching them OF all sides
they determined, on Thursday, the 2lst of
April, at 4 in the afternoon. to escape
across the Asopus to the sea coast, in the
intention of crossing over into Eu-
boa. They dragged their pris-
oners, wet through and exhausted by IA
tigue and sickness, to the stream swollen
by the recent heavy rains, and e~ndeavored
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 gun0oat Aphroessa off the
coast, and a number of soldiers suddenly
appeared on the other side of the stream.
They Immediately cut him down with their
yataghans and fled, taking with them the
rest OF the prisoners. The troops plunged
into the stream in o terrible rage. manv of
them were carried away by it, but the rest
climbing the shore, holly pursued the brig
ands. Thev had not got far before they
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 detachments of soldiers to the
chase, and before nightfall nine of the
brigands were killed. One, severely
wounded, was taken prisoner, and the in
terpreter had escaped. Mr.. Lloyd, how
ever, 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 CORE
spondent says, announces that the mutila.
ted corpse of Mr.. Lloyd had been found in
the thicket. The correspondent proceeds
to describe the effect of this news in Ath-
ems. He pictures the groups in the streets
Good Friday morning-the Greeks, it
must be remembered, still use the old
the general feeling of dismay
and disgust. And, moreover, although
evidently a warm friend of the Govern
ment, and repudiating with indignation
the charge brought in the most distinct
manner by the Opposition organs against
S~outzos, the Minister of War, of completely
with the brigands, he records as a fact
that the Government were aware
of the Eruption of this particu-
lar band into Attica when
they allowed and encouraged Lord Num-
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 cere.
mony, proceeds to give these details: "Mr.
Herbert and Mr.. Lloyd had several mortal
dagger stabs, but the life of both was prob
gun-shot wounds under the right and left
ear. The severely wounded prisoner had
been subjected in Thebes to an examina-
ton, in which he made remarkable revela-
tions. On Sunday, the 18th of April, the
band was in the neighborhood of Athens,
and a parsonage unknown to the bandits
informed them of the projected trip of the
foreigners. On the day of Lord Muncas-
ter's liberation, there appeared in the course
of tine night in the brigand camp two
masked personages received with much
by the leaders, who urged the
brigands to insist upon an amnesty. The
correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette
subsequently states his impression that
only the establishment CT martial law can
put down brigandage."