Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-24
sHEEDYS RESCUE
Of AN OLD MASTER.
The First Bonafide Reproduction
OF the Famous Stolen
Picture.
THE AUTHENTIC DETAILS.
yrow An American Recovered the
Great Gainsborough Painting
After Many Long Years.
LGEcIRAs. Spain. March S.

LGECIRAS, Spain, March S.
N Thanks to Budget Meakln. who
n received it direct from zeenat,
In Morocco, ] am able TO send
herewith the first reproduction that has
vet been made of the remarkable panel
palnting by Correggio which was re-
Gently recovered from Raisuli. the
Moorish brigand, by Patrick Sheedy,
the famous IrIsh-American sport who
created u sensation a few years ago by
restoring to the Agnews another ia
nous work Of art, the long-lost
duchess OF Devonshlre' by Gains.
borough, which was stolen nearly 80
years ago.
painting here sent was made at Zeenat,
which Is Raisuli's own village, at Shee-
dys order by an amateur photographer
and was forwarded to Budget Mea-
kin, who, as perhaps the foremost liy-
Ing authority on Morocco, has been IN
Algeciras recently on business connect
ed with the International conference
here II was, in fact, by means of a
that the first inkling Of Sheedys
strange quest In northern Africa and his
eventual bargain with Raisuli reached
the public; but beyond the fact that a
masterpiece by Correggio had been re-
covered by the American sport" au-
thoritatiye details have yet to be given.
The following account, however, can
be depended upon as accurate in every
respect,
AN ANCIENT PAINTING.
Curious enough. II was the fame which
he gained as the recoverer of the miss
ing Galnsborough which detectives on
both sides OF the Atlantic had failed to
locate which led to Sheedy's being told
about the ancient panel painting by
.@'yessIo of which he has just becom.
possessed. A foreign resident I'm the
Interior sent word to Sheedy that Rails
VII held an ancient European painting
on wood which the brigand chief he.
lieyed to possess same incredible value
80 TO Morocco from Nice came the Am
erlcan discoverer of the Gainsborouph
70 ascertain the truth about the new
picture.
No one needs 10 be reminded NJ
course that II was the notorious Raisuli
VINO Ventured to capture Mr.. Perdicarls
and other foreigners on the outskirts
OF Tangier and to hold them to ransom.
Instead Of being swept away when
once his preposterous terms had been
granted kuisuii was perforce recog-
hized as governor up to the very walls
OF Iangier, or over the district he had
successfully raided, and there this In
ieresting personality, erstwhlle cattle
inter and highwayman. foster-brother
ana partner of previous governor of
Ianglers, rules supreme and snaps his
nhser at treaty rights Of foreigners. He
was open to deal, however, with the in
elVldual "Nazarene" who would pay
lor me board he had inherited from his
grandfather, Abdallah, along with
great Idea as to its value. And at last
me Two came TO Unconstitutional the
plee hnally paid TO Raisull by Sheedy
mas Deen Kept a secret--and The Ameri-
S Sah look the ancientCorregglo awaywith
mln after having twice packed up and
prepared TO leave empty-handed In dis
s9st at the extravagant terms upon
"hlch tho brigand insisted.
Undoubtedly the Correggio came TO
MuioCco at least a century ago, and
FooaDly much earlier than that, as