The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-26
A RANSOM FOR MISS STONE.
The Abducted Missionary TO Be
Saved From Bandits.

American Heard GnStructs Its Agent
in Turkey to Arrange the Price.
The story OF the Cnpture-A Beau
tirui Bulgarian Woman Taken
BOSTON. Sept. 1r-The American Board
or Missions has instructed it's repr.=, uta-
live an CoustautiUoplg To- ransom Miss
E-gu NJ stone. the American missionary
kidnapped hy bandits I'm European TGr-
key The price is TO Dee arranged by the
boards agent there. But th, yeuug and
beautiful Bulgarian woman captured with
.ilss stone may have met "a terrible fate
already. She is tho wife Of an Albanian
preacher named Tsiika. and accompanied
li5ss stone as Bible reader
Bands ot Nurd5 and Circassiuus are
known to carry ON a traffic in handsome
Armenian and Bulgarian women. crDJur-
ms th,n and selling them TO har.ms-
Miss Stone is ufty-two years old and her
cHpf'rs could hope To profit most hy hold
I ing h.r Tor ransom; therefor, it Is be-
H,yeI that no harm has come To- her.
The facts of the cInture have just been
received in letter 10 the American board
] from S8m0kor, European Turkey. TO
which point tEc other members of Miss
stones captured party fed after being re-
/ leased.
.-- l'Nal' UPON W 4l.ll t4lf tf'4-ltll
I travelling is one of the widest ia that
{ portion of Turkey in Europe Macedonia
( They had left S8mokov To- 60 south to
] Saiouiga, "a distance Of 1o1 miles through
! "a mountain range and over road i'm
! passablo except on horseback. Miss Stone
1 and the Bulgarian woman convert rode
I the sturdy little ponies used Tor mountain
/ climbing in Turkey.
Miss stone has seen twenty-five years
/ service IN that country as a missionary
1 and knows every foot % the route. She
/ is acquainted. too. with most of the ma
/ tive fam;iirs along the road. and has
/ been accustomed To- stop over night al
/ mission stations. Throughout the country
there are twenty-five native Bible women
! engaged I'm doing missionary work under
/ her charge. She was in the habit Of Wis
itius them an al intervals. and was never
. accompanied by more than one Of the
! women.
! According To the story told 10y those Of
/ the party who were released. the cap
turs was made at p. m. September @.
( There were from fifteen TO eighteen per
SONS in the party. The bandits surround
Cd them in a narrow valley. compelled
them 90 wade q river. and ascend wood
"a mountain side as fast as threats could
make them for about an hour. when a
/ stopping place was reached. There aD-
peared % bc about forty brigands. dress
ed like TURKS, but speaking good Bull
Earian-
= Turk captured just before this
party was taken up the mountain and
beaten to death before their eyes
I The next morning Miss stone and Mrs
IsiEa were missed. and the main body OF
/ bandits had departed. leaving only Il
guard. which forced the capuF,s 20 give
/ up their watches. money. and JeN.lry.
l after which the guard also disappeared
up the mountain
The authorities did not learn of the
| capture until nearly tweut--faur hours
/ he briEaEds an the chance they needed
I TO reach q secure hiding place
Z All the influence OF the American Lee
Z CATION. Goth ln open demands and yelled
/ threats. Was brought 10 bear upon the
I Turkish Government TO spur 10 o. action.
The sultan himself ordered the Governor
I Of Salonia to secure the release of the
two women by ans means at his com
maDu-
Details Of Turkish troops searched the
I mountainous region where the captJre
took place. bur without result
I Tn. hrigand5. With their two women
/ prisoners made th,ir way uumoIest.d
across tine Turkish frontier into Bulgaria
( bandits IaftSt AN parts Of European TlT-
| key but this is the ITst instance iu which
white missionary has been kidnapped
once before Miss stone was the vic i'm
. Of Bri1aul-. luL without serious results.
Z She and three other missionaries were
. I travelling together, tn four having but
three horse for their mount The party
were set upon by a band of robbers and
one Of their horses was carried of Tho
I HlIaitS were Sl-lH.art hJrlS- all Hali
/ mounted and evidently intent on nothing
but booty
-Arsu you ashamed O. rob defence
| less women. protested one of the mis-
Si1laTiss-
what said the leader OF the band