The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-06-27
A. CAPTIVE'S STORY
Perdicaris Tells of His Expe-
riences With Brigands.
KEPT PRISONERS IN FILTHY HUT
Raisuli, Being Deprived of Much
Property, Took Law Into His own
Hands 10 Obtnin Relief-Out-
law Poses as Patriot.


ter and stronger now and has given a
description Of the circumstances of his
capture and of his experiences while II
prisoner in RaisuliS camp.
He says that on the night of May Is
he had just entered the drawing room
after dinner and, hearing noise
among the servants, he and Cromwell
Marley the British subject, who also
was captured by Raisuli, went out to
investigate the cause. They were i'm
mediately surrounded by armed Moors,
who bound and maltreated them, Var
ley resisted and was struck on the
head with the butt Of a rife, and u
knife was slashed across his hands,
making serious wound At first it
was thought Narlcy's skull had been
fractured
Perdicaris and Marley were then car
ried away on horseback, They We're
bound with ropes, and roundabout
roads were taken in order to avoid
villages. The bandits stopped at Tsar-
radent twenty four hours from Tan.
gier and Raisuli allowed Pcrdicaris
to write to his wife next morning and
also to the sherccf 81 Wazan asking
them to intervene for himself and Var
ley.
At Tsarradcnt the captves lived in
filthy hut They were not allowed to
20 hundred yards away from it and
were strongly guarded When the
shereef Of Wazan arrived a big tent
was placed at the disposal of the pris-
oners, and in other ways the shereef
was the means of considerably allie
waiting their condition. The attitude
of the Moors changed from insult to
fair treatment
Spies of the pretender who were in
the camp all the time tried to induce
Varley to accept post under the pre-
tender.
Raisuli daily held long conversations
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.
Rasuls father, Perdicaris said, left
him much property and cattle, which
aroused the animosity of the Kaids,
who induced the bashaw by presents
to rob Rasuli of his belongings and
finally to imprison him for four years
at Mogador. On his release Raisuli in
teryiewed Mohammed el Torres, repre-
sentative of the sultan at Tangier con-
corning the restitution Of his property.
and, this being without avail, Raisuli
swore to take the law into his own
hands, with the results already known.
Raisuli said that he bore no i'll will TO
Europeans. but stated that the only
way to bring the Moorish government
TO its senses was by capturing Euro
peans until tie foreign powers awaken
to Il realization of the existing condi-
tons
Mr. Perdicaris said that Raisuli is
posing ms n patriot who wants to see
the country happy and peaceful. and
bility for maintaining the country from
Tangicr to Fee and clear it of robbery
and crime if ne is backed up 10y the
powers. He found in Raisuli q man
educated and intellectual.
The only time the prisoners We're
anxious was during the last two days,
when they were at Barnbin, the viii
lace Of Zclel, the governor of the Benz
M'Sara tribe. When the exchange oc-
CURED over three hours were lost in
the exchange Of compliments, RaiSuli
refusing to talk business until the last
moment, being apparently very suspi-
cious OF an attempt to capture him.
When he received the money and the
men turned over to him by the ransom
party, he hurried away toward the vii
lagc.
Perdicaris and Marley Immediately
mounted horses and proceeded for Tan
gier a journey Of sixteen hours.
Rear Admiral Chadwick's squadron
left Tangier today for Gibraltar and
Genoa, Ut Rear Admiral JEWELS
squadron will remain for the present
NWraUt