The age-herald., 1901-11-14
Hidden in the House of Bekir Bey in the Town
 of Ceres
GOING INSANE FROM ANXIETY
Mr. Dickinson Is Still Negotiating and Is Hopeful of Obtaining Her
 Release-Miss Stone
 q Not Careless.

New York, November 13.-Ivan Moloch- rolf. Bulgarian clergyman from Uscub, In Macedonia, has just arrived from visit Ing Miss Stone and is now in consulta- ton with MT. Dickinson, says a Sofia. Bulgaria, special to the Journal and Ad- gertiser.
 Miss Stone' he said, ''is in the house of Bekir Bey, in the town of Ceres, Ma cedonia. l left her two days ago, coming direct to MT. Dickinson to try to ar range for her release. Miss Stone and Mme Tsilka are well, but the strain is terrific and there Is danger that Miss Stone may lose her mind. To be always In the game surroundings is likely to drive her crazy. Constantly looking at the same objects has semi-mesmerized her, and she has had a presentiment that .vil will befall her.
 The brigand chief informs me that he will now insist on the full ransom as the length of time Miss Stone has been left on his hands leaves no margin for bar gaining. The name of the brigan chief Is Dervich Younolise and he is an AL banian. Bekir Bey, in whose house Miss Stone is confined is hand in glove with the brigand chief Bekir Bey assisted the brgands by keeping Miss Stone for thirty days in the mountains before taking her to his house.
 There are about 150 Macedonians im- prisoned in connection with the Stone affair by the Turkish officials. want no personal compensation, but l want the Macedonians released. If the American, English and French consuls at Salonica Insist upon Beklr Bey releasing Miss Stone, it will not be necessary to deal with the brigands, and We can get her release without paying rarsom.'
 Reported She Is Murdered.
 Berlin, Novem Der 13.-The Cologne Ga Eette today contains a dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, saying that 1t Is feared that Miss Ellen M. Stone. the American missionary in the hands of the brgands, has been murdered owing to the delay in the payment of the ransom.
 The Bulgarian officials disclaim any in- tention to interfere with Consul General Dickinson's private negotiation for the release of Miss Stone from the hands of the brigands, but they decline to become a party to an agreement sanctioning brigands or the emissaries of brigands coming into Bulgarian territory to treat for the ransom of persons captured in neighboritG,~tate In defense of the in- terests of algaria the officials cannot show weakness towards the brigands or repudiate responsibility for the conse- quences The government would how ever, respect subject to certain conditions safe conduct granted by MT. Dickinson personally to private emissaries
 It Is suggested that MT. Dickinson give the bandits a fixed time in which to accept the amount and receive payment AaIxy of l,r-sr, to a speedy conclusion inasmuch as the prestige of the United States is injured by the present inconseQuent negotia- lions.
 Information to Sell.
 Hardly a day passes without persons calling at the hotel where MT. Dickinson and the newspaper correspondents are staying with information to sell regard ing the case. This information is fur ther a state of :abrications. A Greek priest yesterday introduced himself with the statement that he had met a Turkish officer with Mis-; Stone and Mime. Tsilka near Pjumaiabala. He added that the woman asked him to tell people that he had seen them. This fiction is three weeks old.
 Miss Stones statements in her letters that the movements of troops compel the brigand band to keep in constant motion proves that;She troops in question must
 
 Macedonia are stationary.
 2Dickinson's Negotiations.
 Washington. November 13.-Such official information as comes to the State De- pertinent from Sofia and Constantinople is confrmatory of the press reports of MT. Dickinson's negotiations with the Bulgarian government touching Miss Stones case. It Is believed that the consul generals efforts to secure Miss hU foft xx,tAl. IL. brigands without interference by the Bul- garian government will be successful. It Is apprehended. however, that through his declination to permit the Bulgarian gov ernment to exercise police authority to effect the capture of the kidnapers Mir Dickinson may have absolved that gov ernment from any legal liability on ac- count of the amount of money which must be paid over as ransom to secure Miss Stones release.
 Miss Stone Was Not Careless,
 Boston, November 13.-The executive officers of the American Board os For eign Missions, concerning the case of Miss Ellen M Stone issued a statement today intended to be corrective of reports that have1been widely published relative to the condition that resulted in her cap- ture by the b-igands. :. This statement affirms that Miss Stone was in pursuit of her customary duties as a missionary when she was captured. The route over which she was travelling is one that Is continually used by the missionaries and without reason for ap- pretending any special danger.
 No warning whatever was given to Miss Stone as to this part tlcular journey, either by the Turkish or Bulgarian au- thorities She had the usual escort of eighteen or twenty people and was ac- cust omed to carry with her Turkish teskre or permit to travel. One of the missionaries acquainted with the region states that the route Miss Stone took WAS the safest of any in that region.
 The statement further affirms that there is no ground whatever for critciz- ing Miss Stone for want of precaution in making this journey.