The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-27
DESCRIBES HIS CAPTURE MT. PerdicariS Discusses
 RaiSuli.
 MALTREATED BY BANDIT Fellow Captive, Varley,
 Struck with Rifle.
Highwayman Chief Was Robbed by Government and Looks to Alleviate Conditions by Holding Eu-
 ropeans-Health Improving.

Tangier, June 26.--Ion Perdicaris, the American who last week was released by the brigand, Raisuli, was much bet ter today and gave an interview to the
 Associated Press descriptive of the cir cumstances of his capture and of his experiences while prisoner. He says that on the night of May ls. he had just entered the drawing room after dinner and, hearing noise among the servants, he and Cromwell Varley, the British subject. who also was cap tured by Raisuh. went out to inves- tigate the cause.
 They were immediately surrounded
 by armed Moors. who bound and mall treated them. Varley resisted and was
 struck on the head with the butt of a rifle and a knife was slashed across his hands. making a serious wound. At first 1t was thought varley's skull had been fractured. Perdicarfs and varley were then carried away on horseback. They were bound with ropes and roundabout roads were taken in orderNto avoid villages.
 The bandits stopped at Tsarradent. I.twenty-four hours from Tangier, and Raisuli ordered Perdicaris to write his wife next morning and also to the Sheireef of Wazan. asking them to in- tervene for himself and variey. At Tsarradent, the prisoners lived in
 filthy hut and were not allowed to
 go one hundred yards away from 1t.
 and were strongly guarded
 When the Sherieef of Wazan arrived
 big tent was placed at the disposal
 of the prisoners and in other ways the
 Sherieef was the means of allevtating
 their condition to a considerable extent.
 The attitude of the Moors changed from
 tnsult to fair treatment.
 Spies of the pretender. who were in
 camp all the time, tried to induce Var
 ley to accept a post under the pre-
 tender.
 Raisuii daily held long conversations with the prisoners. He said anarchy was reigninR h tho country. The an mostly of the people, he said. was not directed against the Sultan. but against the Governors.
 Ralsulrs father, Perdicards said
 left him much property and cattle,
 which aroused the animosity of the
 Raids. who induced the Basham by presented to rob Raisuli of his belong
 ing and finally to imprison him Tor four years at Mogador.
 On his release Raisuli interviewed Mohammed Fl Toress. representative
 of the sultan at Tangier, concerning
 the restitution of his property and this being results alreduy hhVWh. Raisuli said that he bore no i'll will toward Europeans, but stated that the
 only way to bring the Moorish govern. ment to its senses was by capturing Europenas until the foreign powers awaken to a realization of the exist
 ing conditions.
 MT. Perdicaris said that Raisuli is posing 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 Tan
 gier to Fez and clear 1t of robbery and
 crime if he is backed up by the powers.
 He found in Raisuli an educated and intellectual man.
 The only time the prisoners were anx- ious was during the last two days when they were at Barbin, the village
 of Zelal, the governor of the BeniM
 Sara tribe.
 When the exchange occurred over hours were lost in the exchange Of compliments, Raisuli refusing to talk business until the last moment, being apparently very suspicious of an ate tempt to capture him. When he rec ceived the money and the men turned over to him by the ransom party, he hurried away towards his village. Perdicaris and Varley immediately
 mounted horses and proceeded for Tangier a journey of 16 hours.