The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-15
RANSOM is
UNCLAIMED.
Nobody Appears to Receive the
Price of Liberty
Which Friends of Miss Stone
Are Ready TO Pay.
BAND HAS DISSOLVED.
Snow and Cold Weather Seat
tered the Bandits.
Prisoner is Still Kept Under
Close Surveillance.

Sofia, Oct 15-Although the time
fixed by the brigands who abducted
Miss Ellen Stone, the American mis-
sionary, for the payment of the ran
som demanded, expired a week ago, no
one has appeared at Samakoff to claim
the money, or to announce the fate
of the captive. 1t is now learned that
the band has dissolved but tnat Miss
Some is kept under surveillance at some
distance from the frontier This is due
to snow and cold weather rendering the
mountains uninhabitable. The efforts
of the police to arrest Saraoff formerly
president of the Macedonian committee
who is suspected of completely in the
kidnapping are still unavailing. The
failure is due to sympathy of the in
habitants and local authorities
LETTER FROM MISS STONE.
New York Oct 15.-According to the
dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser
from Sofa further word has come from
Miss Stone in the following letter writ
ten from Macedonia, to W. w. Peet
treasurer of the Turkish mission ia
SonStantinople:
My honored friend: 1 write to in
form you that on the third of Septem
Der I was captured by a great number
of armed men-some forty-as L trav-
eled from Bansko to Diumaala with
about twelve teachers, students anu
others.
They took with me for my compan-
ion, Mrs. Catherine Tsilka- The reason
why they captured US. is for ransom
The price which they demand for US is
$4,000 pounds Turkish, which sum
must be paid in gold and this en-
tirely without the knowledge of the
Turkish and Bulgarian governments.
within the term of IS days from today.
We are pursued by a Turkish army.
/ begged Dr. Jaskell himself to go to
Constantinople and exert himself for
the payment of the ransom at Sam
al<ov. where men viii receive it on pre-
sentation of an order from me-
The men who captured US, at first
showed courtesy and consideration to-
ward US, but since Turkish soldiers and
Bashi ba zouks have begun to pursue
us and the ransom is delayed, our con-
dition is altogether changed
Therefore l beg you to hasten send
ing the ransom demanded and that as
energetically as possible, you will pre-
stop the pursuit of US by soldiers and
BashibazOuk otherwise we shall b.
killed by the people in whose hands We
are. l pray you to communicate with
out delay. the contents of this letter
to the representative of the United
States at the porte and request his
most serious cooperation
Pray for We are at peace with
God With hearty salutations.
Your friend, ELLEN N. STONE
consul at Constantinople and diplomatic
agent to Bulgaria, is quoted in a Sofia
dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser
when the Stone party was captured
they were compelled to wade stream up
to the Perrin mountain. Miss Stone and
Nine Tsilka were hurried up the noun
tain and the other prisoners We're released
next morning. Just before the stone
Turk and battered out his brains with
the butt ends of guns to prevent his tell
ing they We're lying in wait 'The whole
band was disguised as Turkish soldiers
when they captured the Stone party.
dispatch to the Journal and Adve.--
tiser from Berlin SAYS that the Nossischc
follows concerning developments in the
kidna ping case of Miss Stone:
tain suspects. including Paul Genadeff
brother of the we'll known barrister and
a GERMAN KIDNAPPED.
London. Oct 15--It is announced from
bucharest. says dispatch to the Daily
the representative of a German frm has
been kidnapped by Bulgarian brigands at
Silstria- The Roumanian government has
sent a protest to Sofia. and the Bulgarian
government has ordered troops TO pursue
the brigands
It is rumored that the Macedonian COM
mittee has decided to. capture every for
eigner within reach in order to attract
public security in Macedonia
ARE HIDDEN UNDER GROUND.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 15.-The parents of
Madame Tsilka- the Bulgarian teacher
who was captured by brigands with Miss
Ellen NJ. Stone, the American missionary
have received another letter from their
daughter urging the step already taken
because the brigands threaten the oriS
of danger to themselves. The writer saws
that she and Miss Stone are hidden in a
courteouSiy- She also says the only
means of securing their release is to paw
the ransom demanded
JUDGE M'CTE REFUSES