The Washington herald., 1913-11-30
SHE NARROWLY
: ESCAPESDEATH
New Yorker Tells Story Of
Journey Through Country
Of Bandits.
TRAVELLERS ARE KILLED
Englishmen Are Murdered by Outlaws
Just Outside of the City's
Gates.
TRAVELLERS ARE KILLED
DeciAi Cable to The Washington Herald.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
Paris, Nov. 29.-Mrs. Hope Allen Som
mer. OF New York, who recently had
remarkable adventure in Morocco, mar
rowly escaping death at the hands Of
great interest in Paris on account of the
brilliant success she has made in the
establishment OF a beautiful cinemato-
graph house known as lie Theater
Colisee.' in the exclusive Champs
Elysees quarter, near the Afc de Triom-
phe.
Mrs. Sommer's experience in Morocco
is one of the most exciting ever narrated
outside the pages OF fiction. She went to
Tangier in the company OF a Mexican
and his wife and a well-known French
man. 1t happened at a moment when
tribesmen from the interior were infest-
ing with unusual audacitysthe roads lead
ing out of Tangier. but Mrs. Sommer
conceived the idea OF visiting ne curious
old town OF !Tetuan. All the persuasions
my mule already had bruised me SO that
her to abandon the plan.
Form omInous Escort.
With her only companions an Arab
courier and an old Algerian soldier. she
started one morning. following desolate
some ugly looking natives. armed to the
teeth. walking in the direction to Tangier.
II was remarked that nearly all these
men turned back and followed the
tourists
This continued for mile after mile, un-
ill the Ominous cortege numbered about
three score. Mrs. Sommer and her escort.
becoming alarmed. pressed forward with
all the speed their mules were capable
u 1T
described to them as suitable for a halt
over night. When they arrived they
found only an abandoned fort. The armed
natives who had been following, crowded
around Mrs. Sommer with evident
purpose of making her prisoner.
BY fortunate accident the jolting of
the journey had displaced her bag of
jewelry, which was hidden under her
clothing, and the robbers could not
find it.
shake on Followers.
"I expected they would kill me-" said
Mrs. Sommer. but the courier and
Algerian soldier held a heated argument
with them, and suddenly seizing the
bridle of my mule hurried me forward.
so at last after two hours of terror We
left them behind. 1t was nearly night.
with no hope of shelter before reaching
my mule already had bruised me so that
every further step was agony, yet we
dared not halt again.
I'VE were overtaken the next day by
two Englishmen riding alone towards
Tetuan. They passed on, expecting We
would overtake them. Twilight began to
fall when, we neared Tetuan. We has
tened for fear the gate would be closed.
the rule being that no travellers were
noticed shadowy forms emerging from
the darkness. Our guide, showing in
tense excitement. made a rush for the
gate, eager to get through ahead OF US
l was some distance away, but / called
to him to halt. 1t was lucky. We got
through the gate together and Immediate
ly harmed the cause of our guides terror
and the meaning OF the shadowy forms.
EngIishnen Are Killed.
THE EngIishmen. who had preceded
us. had been murdered before the city
gate just half an hour before. The gate
was closed at the usual time and the
Enghshmen were forced to wait outside
The native tribesmen. watching such an
opportunity stole down and killed and
robbed them before an alarm could be
raised The gate fortunately had been
re-opened after the Staying Of the Eng
lishmen, otherwise we could not have es-
capped the same fate
''The next day I was invited to visit
the harem of the Moorish governor OF
TeAlan. I met his seventeen wives, the
oldest, forty years old, wrinkled and
toothless, and the youngest, smiling
pretty girl of fifteen. The attitude OF
the governor and his wives toward each
other was charming. He seemed exactly
like a father among a lot of daughters.
In the harem were half dozen bright,
saucy little pages in attendance upon the
governors wives. The governors man.
ners were most respectful and delicate,
quite those of a European courtier, al
though he has never been outside of his