The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-27
ION PERDICARIS
TELLS HIS STORY
HOW HE WAS TREATED
BY THE MOORISH BRIGAND CHIEF,
RAISULI.

Perdicaris nnd yarIey Did Not Have
quite the Enjoyable Time That
Was Attributed TO Them-They Had
to Endure Hnrdships. and VarIey.
Who Resisted When Captured, GOT
n Crack on the Head and n slash
With n Knife.
Tangier, June 26.-Ion Perdicaris,
the American who last week was re-
leased by the brigand Raisuli, was
much better to-day and gave an inter-
view to the Associated Press descrip-
tive of the circumstances of his cap
ture and of his experiences while a
prisoner in Raisuli's camp.
He says that on the night of May IS
he had just entered the drawing room
after dinner. Hearing a noise among
the servants. he and Cromwell Varley,
the British subject, who also was cap
tured by Raisuli, went out to investi-
gate the cause.
They were surrounded Immediately
by armed Moors. who bound and mai
treated them. Varley resisted and was
a
rifle and knife was slashed across
his hands. making a serious wound. At
first it was thought Varley's skull had
been fractured.
Perdicaris and Varley then were car
ried away on horseback. They were
bound with ropes and round
about roads were taken in
order to avoid villages. The
bandits stopped at Tsarradent,
twenty-four miles from Tangier, and
Raisuli allowed Perdicaris to write to
his wife next morning and also to the
shereef of Wazan. asking them to in
tervene for himself and Varley.
In Filthy Hut.
At Tsarradent the captives lived in
a filthy hut. They were not allowed to
go 100 yards from il and were strong
ly guarded. When the shereef of Wa
zan arrived a big tent was placed at
the disposal of the prisoners and in
other ways the shereef was the means
of alleviating their condition to a con-
siderable extent. The attitude of the
Moors changed from insult to fair
treatment
Spies of the Pretender who were in
Varley TO accept post under the pre-
tender.
Raisuli daily held long conversation
with the prisoners. He said anarchy
was reigning in the country. The ami
mostly of the people. he said. was not
directed against the Sultan, but against
his governors.
Raisulrs father. Perdicaris said, left
him much property and cattle. which
aroused the animosity of the Kaids,
who induced the Bashaw. by presents,
to rob Raisuli of his belongings and,
finally. to imprison him for four years
at Mogador. On his release Raisuli
interviewed Mohammed FL Torres. rep
resentative Of the Sultan at Tangier,
concerning the restitution of his prop
erty, and this being without avail,
Raisuli swore to take the law into
his own hands, with the results already
known.
No III VIII Toward Europeans.
Raisuli said that he bore no IN will
towards Europeans, but stated that the
only way TO bring the Moorish gov
ernment TO its senses was by capturing
Europeans until the foreign Powers
awaken TO a realization OF the exist
ing conditions.
Perdicaris said that RaisuH is pos
ing as a patriot who wants TO see the
country happy and peaceful, and he Is
Offering TO accept the responsibility for
maintaining the country from Tangier
70 Fezand clearing II OF robbery ana
crime n he IL backed up by the Pow
ers He found in Raisuli an educated
and intellectual man.
The only tlme the prisoners we're
anxious was during the last two days
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