Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-01-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CURIOUS ESCAPE.  Ttei igintosTacorrespondent of the Daily TelegrapA says fortnight ago a prisoner made, a curious escdPe• ; The story is worth telling, as illustrating the power which the creek priests held here a Greek named Attdrea Christodoulo committed a murder and fled. If was ixilerably well known that he had taken sanctuary Monastery of Kikko, and the Turks either wcaild mot, or dared not, disturb him. Recently, hcavene, a petition was made by the murdered man's stations that the murderer should be arrested; and mounted party of the military police was sent tO are .e6t could be found. This party consisted es ; four?! `lie most intelligent and experienced manliest* 'ue zaptieh force, and they at once said that ili ses s no re sending them unless they could get a letter ffra,,'n the Greek priest who rules at the monastery teat head-quarter camp, and who has great initiates:. asking the monks of Kikko to surrender the man. They obtained this letter, went to GM monastery, and were told by the priests that they had no man of that name; but they found that there. was a Greek there who had come eight or nine years ago, and whom, after questioning him, they decided to arrest and bring to Nikosia on sus- , picion. They tied his hands behind his back, and led him by a rope. On their way to Nikosia, at a place where the road was only wide enough for them to travel in single file, the man was being led by the second of the party, with two others behind him, when suddenly he jumped down a very steep descent, almost a precipice, by the side of the road, and pulled the man who was leading him, a powerful, big man, off his horse down the precipice. They rolled down together, and the rope broke. The mounted Zaptieh was stunned, and lay senseless for a while. Another zaptieh jumped off his horse, and tried to follow, but dislocated his ankle, and the prisoner escaped into the woods, with his bands tied behind him. The two sound zaptiehs returned, bringing their two injured comrades with them, and reported the affair, saying the prisoner would again take shelter in a monastery. Again the Greek priest gave them letters saying the man ought to be surrendered, but up to this hour he has not been found. It is believed that every Greek would aid his escape and combine to conceal him from the Turkish officers of the law.  LIITICER'S Horan.— According to a German paper, Luther's house at Mansfeld, which remained in the possession of the reformer's descendants till the middle of the last century, has just been . .  bought by a person who wishes to turn it into a public-house. To prevent its falling into irreverent hands a committee has been formed with a view to  raising funds for its purchase and preservation. A GOVERNOR WARNED IN Ti.—The Finland _ .  official paper publishes a letter addressed to Count Alderberg, the governor, by a youth of 17, named Munk, who stated that he had come to Helsingfors on purpose to kill him, and had vainly watched outside the palace for an opportunity, but had at last succeeded in overcoming the idea. Ile was afraid of its reviving, so that he might be. beheaded like Model, and thus end his miserable existence. .He therefore • .  --begged the governor to take measures for his safety, as he could not answer for what might happen if be met him. On the police going to his address they found him armed wlth a dagger, but whether he was taken to a lunatic asylum is not stated.