Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-22
DE MOREs' MURDER. i.;hNH
Detailed Account Of the Death of the
MARQUIS in AfrlCM.

muTuer VI the MARQUIS dc MOfCS, WIN
obtained notoricty through the West
because Of his extensive Investments
in the cattle business in the western
part of North Dakota and his trial for
murdr ut Bismarck, have finally been
learned by his wife and family, and
are related by the correspondent Of
lie Temps. the Partisan newspaper,
from Tunis, Africa. This is the frs,
time that the details of the murder Of
De Morcs and his party have been
told. and the story will he received
with interest throughout tn estate.
1t appears, from the story of the Tu-
mis- correspondent, to whom the facts
were reported by Il native witness of
the murder, that hardly had De Mores
with his escort crossed the frontier,
before Ali Smcril, who had been en-
gagged by him in Tunis as guide,
wrote to Il dozen or his tribeSmcn to
meet him ut I'll Ouatia. some distance
along the route. on Il certain date.
When De Mores reached there he met
With party of forty-two Touaregs,
who We're warly welcomed by him,
given food and engaged by De Mores
to bring him to their chief, with whom
he wished to consult. The Touaregs
advised De Mores to send away his IA
tive escort, as they said the members
Of it We're only waiting for Il chance to
ebtray him. Unfortunately for him,
De MoreS followed their advice. and
kept only two -Algerians. But he took
even the rifles from them and gave
the guns t two Of the Touargts. On
the same evening the men to whom
De MoreS guide had written arrived,
but the TOuaregeS drove them ava.
The chief Of the TouaregS wrote then
to lignitary OF the tribe. informing
him of the presence of Il rich French
man. who wanted to be conducted to
the supreme chief of the TouaregeS.
He was Informed that the Frenchman
could not be permitted to enter the
town in which the supreme chief lived.
On the other hand, two other rouareg
chiefs wrote to the chief of the band
With which De Mores was, ordering
him to conduct De MOrcs before the
grand chief, Guedazen. But before
this letter arrived a party of Chaam-
bas fell in with the De Mores party,
and in the night it was proposed by
ore of them that they murder De
Mores and take his property. The
Touaregs objected for a time, but their
objections were answered by the
Chaambas in this wise: you people
do not know the Frenclrmen, but we
Chaambas know what they do. AS
soon as one of them gets into coun-
try he draws Il map of it, and after
that an army will come and take the
towns. II you want the French to
come and take your country. you have
only to allow this fellow to get into
it,
The Touareges yielded to the persua-
sion Of the Chaambas, and that night
the murder of De Mores was~agreed
upon. Three Chaambas slipped under
the tent Of the marquis and succeeded
in carrying away a box in which they
expected to find money. but which,
upon breaking it open, they found to
contain nothing but papers, (which
they tore to bits and threw away.
When in the morning De Mores dis
covered that he had been robbed, he
suspected plot, and resolved to beat
plans Of the cOnSpiratOrs. He told his
servants that he did not have enough
provisions for the trip, and that he
would have to proceed to settlement
called Sinauon for new supply. He
mounted camel which was led by
one of the servants, while one Of the
leaders of the Chaambas and Two
Touarges took their places by his side
4 ~ of M
denly one OF the Chaambas and the
two Touarges dashed upon De Mores
and took away his rifle, which was
slung over his back. At the same
time two more seized sis holster, in
which was the marquis revolver, and
endeavored to tear it away from him,
and in The struggle all three fell to the
ground. DE Mores succeeded in get
ting his revolver. At this moment !,
Touareg attacked him with yata-
CHAN, wounding him slightly in the
forehead. When still down de Mores
fired and shot one of his assailants
dead. Rising. he mortally wounded
two other TOuaregS. He then ran to a
tree which grew on small eminence,
some 300 meters from the place OF at
tack. Sheltering himself behind the
tree, he recharged his revolver. and,
with one knee upon the ground, await
ed the approach of the enemy. The
Iouaregs and ChaambaS held coun-
ell of war over their dead and wound
ed The Touarays, knowing De Mores
to be Il dead shot, suggested that the
Chaambas, having better weapons,
should attack him. At this juncture
Tunisian merchant, who was Of the
party, endeavOrel to argue with the
would-bc aSsaSSinS, and, finding it
useless, ran toward the TOuarges and
the Chaambas advanced on De Mores.
After Il few moments the merchant
moved as though to argue further
with them, but was forbidden to do SO
by the marquis, and upon his cOntinu-
ing to advance toward the attacking
party, De MOreS, thinking that he had
gone over to the attacking party. fired
upon him, shot him in the back and he
fell. The advance was checked for Il
moment, and then one Of the aSSasSinS
made Il detOur and succeeded in get
ting behind the tree which sheltered
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