Show HOW AMERICAN MISSIONARIES WERE BY TURKEY I Boston 25 Details of oC the re recent recent recent cent capture of Miss Stone the Ameri Amen American can missionary and one of her helpers by brigands in Turkey are given hi ht a aletter aletter aletter letter just received here by the Ameri Amen American American can board of or commissioners for foreign missions The Th facts became becam known to toone toone one of ot the missionaries of the board at European Turkey members of the party with whom Miss Stone and her assistant ass stant Mrs TsUka were travel travelIng travelIng Ing lag when the capture was ivas made and who fled on being released by the out outlaws outlaws outlaws laws They could give no Information as to where Miss Stone and her companion were taken as the two women disappeared disappeared disappeared In the night and the rest of the party were detained under guard for a time Finally the robbers relieved those captives of watches and other valuables and departed The missionaries made their way at once to According to the story told by these victims the capture was made ma e at 4 p pm pm m ni Sept 3 2 while Miss Stone and Mrs the wife of an Albanian preach preacher er were traveling with friends from to There were fifteen to eighteen in the party part The bandits confronted them in ina ina a narrow valley surrounded them and compelled them to wade a river and as ascend ascend ascend a wooded mountain side for about an anho hour r There appeared to be about forty brigands brig dressed like ilke Turks but speaking good Bulgarian At length le a stopping place was reached The next morning Miss Stone and Mrs Irs TsUka were missed and it was apparent that the main body of ot the outlaws had leaving only a guard lard Later this guard com corn compelled compelled the captives to give up their watches money and Jewelry after ater I which they disappeared up the moun mountain thin tain leaving the missionaries free It Itis Itis Itis is thought the brigands may have en entered entered entered Bulgaria and the army has been given special instructions to guard the border closely and follow up any traces of the marauders TV which they may find Will Stone Washington Sept s C fR In reply to the Inquiry from the slate st a te department as to wether they would pay the ran ransom ransom ransom som asked by the Bulgarian brigands who Mrs Stone one of its missionaries the American board of missions has stated that it has charged its representative in Constantinople with the ransoming of the woman leaving the price to be arranged by him |