The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-12
QUEEN OLGA.

demned to penal servitude for life, he
found in the penitentiary his father,
who had been imprisoned for some con-
traveption of the bankruptcy laws. The
poor old man was in the last stages of
consumption and died in his SON. IS arms,
Nasos thereupon in the bitterness of his
grief swearing eternal vengeance against
society.
Three months later he, together with
nine Of his fellow convicts, took advan-
tage of hurricane raging one dark De-
cember night to escape and to make
good their fight to the mountains,
where they organized themselves into q
band of robbers. AS in the story books,
their depredations were mainly confined
TO the rich, and they were so generous
with their plumber that, far from being
either feared or hated, they were be-
loved by the entire peasantry of the
countryside, especially the bandit chief,
young Nasos, who was known through
ont the province as The Boy" So
great a power did Nasos and his band
acquire that they were able even to in
fuence the election of parliamentary
representatives Of the district, and few
months ago the congressman from La
mia and the neighboring towns were
actually forced by their constituents to
urge the minister of the interior to alb
stain from the project of sending troops
for the purpose Of capturing or killing
the bandits.
Some years ago Lord and Lady Nun
caster, Hon. Edward Herbert, Mr.. Fred
Vyner, and Count Boyi of the Italian
legation were seized by brigands while
picnicking on the plain of Marathon and
hurried off to the mountains. Four days
later Lord Muncaster was released and
sent to Athens for the purpose of secur-
ing the ransom and the terms of immu-
nifty demanded by the brigands. They
insisted upon 81 90, 600 in money, free
pardon for present and past outrages
and the liberation of certain brigands
then in custody. The English minister
ut Athens urged the Greek government
to procure the release of the captives
even upon the terms of the brigands,
and received distinct promise that the
matter should be settled at no matter
what cost. With characteristic lack of
faith, the Greek authorities tried to
avoid the payment of the ransom by
comprising tho arrest of the banditti
and dispatched body Of troops to cap
ture the outlaws. The latter through
their friends at Athens were at once ap-
prised of the scheme. Enraged thereat,
the robbers carried the unfortunate trav-
elers farther into the interior, and after
subjecting them for several days TO the
most distressing anxiety as TO what
their fate might be, murdered them in
cold blood. The bodies when found bore,
besides number of gunshot wounds. the
appearance of having been, in addition
thereto, stabbed in the back. The
affair created an immense sensation at
the time, which was still further in
creased when several members of thepar-
hamentary opposition in Greece as well
as an Englishman named Noel, domi-
ciled at NegrOponte, were arrested and
placed on trial along with the brigands
for completely IN the massacre, and most
of the accused paid the penalty Of their
crime with their lives. But, notwith-
standing this, brigandage continues TO
remain as much of a curse in Greece rs
it was in the days when the French
novelist, Edmond About, selected the
Greek brigand Hadji Stavros as the hero
of his popular tale. The King of the
Mountains BARON SARToR.
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