Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1884-01-26 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

MOORISH ABDUCTION.  The following incident of Moorish life, which occurred in the early part of the present month, thoroughly illustrates, says a Tangier correspondent, the state of insecurity to which the natives are subject. Two gentlemen, one an American, the other an English officer, were riding along the beach, and when about two miles from the town, perceived a group of fishermen who appeared to have some altercation with a truculent looking Moor armed with the usual long firelock. On seeing the horsemen approach, some four or five men, accompanied by a pretty-looking Moorish girl of about 17 years of age, separated from the crowd, and called out that the armed Moor had been trying to carry off the girl by force, threatening at the same time to kill her if she resisted. While this emplanation was going on, the man of whom the complaint was made had taken to his heels, but was pursued and captured by the horsemen who gave the fellow in charge to the fish• ermen, and sent him, accompanied by the Moorish girl, to the fort, where the Khalif& administers justice. The girl, Rachma Kalfsoutz, by name, states that about one month previous she was enticed by two women to take a walk with them on the beach. When a short distance from the town two armed Moors suddenly made their appearance, and carried her off by force to the village of El Menaar. Here the men wore joined by a third, and she was detained by them, being continually subjected to brutal outrages. After a fortnight she was taken to the village of Imgogha, and from that to Beni Hassan, near Tetuan, where her captors met a party of mountaineers. After some days detention she had reason to believe that a definite agreement had been made to sell her to the mountaineers. With the view of making a desperate effort to regain her liberty during the temporary absence of two of the Moors, the captive contrived to elude the viliganee of the third, and secured his poniard, which she secured about her person. She then slipped quietly out of the village, and once clear, ran as fast as she was able in the direction of Tangier. The man in whose charge the girl had been left discovering that she had made her escape, started in hot pursuit, overtaking his victim on the beach, where she had encountered some fishermen, from whom she implored protection. When the two gentlemen on horseback were seen approaching and the fellow fearing the consequence of their interference, made off, as before mentioned. He has been imprisoned, after having been well flogged, and the Khalif& has given orders for the arrest of the other two mon as well as the women who induced the girl Raehma to walk with them on the evening of her abduction. Judging from her account, she appears to have received the most brutal treatment while a prisoner, as she wao constantly required to go through the native Moorish dances ; but not being always able to perform these to the satisfaction of her persecutors, they used, she affirms, to switch her severely. The man new in prison, All Ajneeah, is a well known desperate character, and has before this been successfully engaged in the enterprise of carrying off women for the pm-pose of selling them to the inhabitants of the mountain villages. He has also been guilty of various murders, among others that of a young native woman who resisted him in his attempt at forcible abduction.  "They come se a boon and • blessing to men, The Piekwiek, the Owl, and the Waverley Pen.' —Oban Times. Try the "Big 3 " Pen, and the Hindoo Pens Noe. 1,2, and 3, Eld. and is. per box, at all Stationers. Sample Box, with all kinds, le. id. by Poet. Patentees.--Mscsayszt & Catcaom, 23 to 33, Blair St., Edinburgh. (Est. 1770). Penmakers to Her Majesty's Government Offices.  AN 0'  The London correspondent of the Irish Times states that he has g od authority for stating that the Rome Office and the metropolitan police department have just been warned that (sericite steps are being taken by the organizers of the O'Donnell Vengeance Fund to carry out, by the perpetration Of outrages in England, the schemes of revenge proclaimed in the Irish World. Of the 9000 dollars enbacribed to the fund it has been discovered that between three and four thousand were transmitted to London last week. The officers of the Criminal Investigation Department are working hard to trace this money, but so far have failed.