Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-27
A CAPTIVE'S STORY
Perdicaris Tells of His Expe-
 riences With Brigands.
KEPT PRISONERS IN FILTHY HUT
RaisuIi, Tieing Deprit Sa of Much Property, Took Law IAto His Own Hands to Obtain Rolief-Out-
 Aav Poses as a Patriot.

TANGIER, June 27.--Ion Perdicaris, the American who has just been re- leased by the brigand Raisuli, is bet ter and stronger now and has given description of the circumstances of his capture and of bis 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, and, hearing noise among the, servants, he and Cromwell Varley, the British subject, who also was captured by Raisuli. went out to investigate the cause. They were irn- mediately surrounded by armed Moors, who bound and maltreated them. Var ley resisted and was struck on the head with the butt of rifle, and n knife was slashed across his hands, making a serious wound. At first it was thought yarley's skull had been fractured.
 Perdicaris and varley were then car ried away on horseback. They were 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 Perdicaris to write to his wife next morning and also to the shereef of Wazan asking them to intervene for himself and Var ley.
 At Tsarradent the captives lived in filthy hut. They were not allowed to go a 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 ale viating 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
 Raisulis father Perdicaris said, left him much property and cattle, which aroused the animosity of the Raids, 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 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 the foreign powers awaken to realization of the existing condi- lions.
 MT. Perdicaris said that RaisuIi is posing as a patriot, who wants to see the country happy and peaceful, and he is offering to accept the responsi- bility for maintaining the country from Tangier to Fez and clear it of robbery and crime. if he is backed up by the powers He found in Raisuli man educated and intellectual
 The only time the prisoners were anxious was during the last two days, when they were at Barabin. the will lage of Zelel, the governor of the Beni 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. l When he received the money and the men turned over to him by the ransom 1 party, he hurried away toward the viii l lage.
 Perdicaris and Varley immediately mounted horses and proceeded for Tan l gier a journey of sixteen hours. | Rear Admiral Chadwick's squadron left Tangier today for Gibraltar and Genoa, but Rear Admiral JewelPs squadron will remain for the present.