Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-02
Bjoodthjrsty Balkan Bandits
Who Make Murder Fine Art

gave iu ut once and handed over Nlol.
Sendo then moved on Co the mine
where he sacked Jha offices and ear
ried Off all the owner had left behind
him. (which WIS not much" said the
Captain" when telling of his adVcn-
turc. for the Engli-hman was wary
and only left enough TOR the people Co
live ON till DE came back. J expect hc
took the rest with him To- Salonila
liut we smashed uu his writing ma
chine and took AN the ravolVars and
rifles. our visit paid us and viii cost
him a good deal After that We went
home. and haven't been i'm that part
since. ] shall wait an they've had
time Co forget me and turn my eyes tp
Roumcla. where there is always some
thing 10 do for a man who has
gun and a few smart boys
CAREFUL COLIMANOFF.
Colimanon. also e Bulpar. il moro
careful To generally manages tu
steer clear of the Turkish tgoous he
cause he does less pillaging. NcNerthc-
less ho imports arms from Bulgaria,
which he distributes To the Bulgarian
villages On Macedonia. He and Sendo
Joined forces last autumn and fen upon
a. garrison not far from the town OF
Drama, shot every soldier who made
the slightest resistance and then made
the officers prisoners Boa their own
barracks Later these starving pili-
GERS managed to send n telegram 20
Constantinople. describing their plight
The authorities thought the telegram
a fake" and took no notice. Where
upon Sendo and Colimanon told their
prisoners that unless they paid $500
each before two days elapsed they
would be- skinned alive
Getting no answer o. their wire the
officers began TO bargain about the
ransom. They We're AN poor men. but
had friends al Drama Co whom they
wrote one of Sendo's men took Oh"
letter and brought back $500 with which
the Comitadjis had 20 Doc content A
week later q party Vt Turks came tn
relieved the imprisoned officers, who
have since been trying Co persuade
headquarters that the telegram was
bona hde
These bands not only make life a
terror to the Maccdoni8ns. but de-
moralize them. The strong ones set
up bands ON their own account, think
ing 1T better Co pillagc than to be pill
LACED while the peasants on the OUT
skirts of towns tcrrorize the timorous
inhabitants. Some of the incidents
are comic.
BOYS RANSOM
A Greek grocer Of Drama after much
hesitation. determined Co send his boy
OF 13 600 school This is often "a venture
some thing Co do. for the Eulgars
think they ought Co have ull the
schools and from time tn time. Hduap
the Greek boys. A Bulgar peasant who
had long uurscd a grudEe against tho
grocer now saw mis- chance. lie way
laid little NassiH. took him tO "a Bul-
garian cafe and after making him
write 10 his father. Send $1,000 to de-
liver me from DEATH DC walked with
the note Co the grocer who was Just
shutting his shop 90 go and look for his
son. lie turned pale when he read it
and asked.
rs he very desperate MANI"
"'rhe most desperate man In Mace
douiu." was the reply He has
large band and is the best Comitadji
alive. lie saws that, n / don't bring
tine money within two hours the child's
body will be brought To the shop
The grocer. who had no money worth
speaking OF, began 10 bargain with Jhe
E4lgar for In the near east, even ran
SONS are hagglcd over and "a Comitadji
like merchant. always asks for more
than hc hopes 10 get Finally he got
the hoy back for $25, but the next
time he meets Greek Comitadii the
grocer viii set him ON the Bulgar, and
So the games goes ON till 10 is worth
nobodys while 90 Keep quiet
INCIDENT or a GIRL.
Dmitri Kckdjc and his son Youu
were notorious bulgarian Comitadiis.
After many adventures they We're Kill
ed la the early spring OF 1909 Last
year they descended ON one of the VIE
lagos near tscub. carried on "a Greek
girl, after having killed her uncle, and
took her into the mountains. Some
months later she managed 90 escape 60
"a Greek village and married "a Nulns
man there. Dimitri, finding out where
she was. sent a guard to arrest her,
but she took refuge with the Greek
patriarch Ga kind of bishop. Dimitri
came into the village with his band.
tortured the Greeks and began tu
storm the patriacnate. threatening to
massacre the whole village unless the
girl was given up. But handful OF
Turkish soldiers turned mp in the Wiz
lagc and said the girl had better be
given up to them, for safety The
patriarch refused The Greek villagers
begged her not TO move while the
Cumitadiis repeated their threats. As
neither the Comitadiis nor the Greeks
wanted the Turks 10 have her they
held a truce and talked the matter
over Then the Turks called upon her
70 come out and at last she agreed
thinking tho Greeks. who We're still In
confab with the Bulgars. had deserted
her OF course the Bulgars fen upon
her ana carried her on She has not
been seen since
WOMEN IMMUNE.
As a rule. however, the women are
fairly safe. II is accounted a great
crime 10 KIN one Intentionally. os-
pecially in Albania As most " the