Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 4 | Americans Are Tortured Rescued after Many Woes

AMERICANS ARE TORTURED 36 & 4! RESCUED AFTER MANY WOES I MR. AND MRS. E. J. MALIMATINAS i' - . - -'i r i f& 4 y & 5- . I - -4 4 s ! I Ki k I: - , X:: $ if ; - J I A f k f - lc VI 1 J f Ex-soldier, Who Bought Ranch in Asia Minor, Has Harrowing Experience. By International News Service. NEW YORK, Nov. 9. Their minds filled with the horror of tthree months of existencs in the war zone, the destruction of their $50,-. $50,-. 000 olive plantation and unspeakable unspeak-able cruelty; at the hands of the Turks, an American and his wife made their escape in a small boat on the open sea. Mr, and Mrs. Kite J. Malimaftiiias drifted for a week without food or shelter. They ran across a British mine sweeper and, half crazed by the hardships of their voyage, voy-age, begged the captain either to rescue or shoot them. They arrived here aboard the San Guigliclmo from Naples. Maiimatinas is only 37 years of age, but he looked ."tO as lie walked down the gangplank. gang-plank. His "hair turned whifte in the five days he was imprisoned in a dungeon in Smyrna. Mis wife is but J,?, years of age, but she appears to be a woman of 40, after her harrowing experience. Mallmatlnas was born in Greece, but came to this country and was naturalized in 3907. He served a year and a half in a cavalry regiment here, then married. Miss Bertha Bellman and went to Ser-diaeny, Ser-diaeny, in Asiatic Turkey, and bought an olive grove. Three montths ago Turkish troops stripped his trees for fuel. His horses were confiscated and when his house was searched for hidden guns and a few antiquated anti-quated relics of rifles were found, his wife was beaten until unconscious and he was thrown into a dungeon in Smyrna. " His wife made her way to United States Consul Con-sul Norton, who advised the couple to flee the country. He secured Malimaitinas's release and the couple set sail in a small boat with K''0 other refugees. They were becalmed on the Mediterranean for a week and their rations and water t;ave out. Many in the boat died before they finally were' cast ashore on an island. After a lengthy period a British mine sweeper was sighted and they pleaded with the commander to shoot them ur take them on his .boa. He finally took them aboard and'landod tltem on the island of Metlan, from which point they made their way to Naples.