Deseret Evening News | 1901-10-26 | Page 21 | Group of Captured Bulgarian Brigands

O GROUP OF CAPTURED BULGARIAN BRIGANDS i I f P j jt je t e f 4 r 1 Recent on tho the frontier the prevalence of oC lawlessness and the abductions of ot missionaries I call attention to that portion of ot ottile tile the world now recognized as aB tho the center of oC brigandage In Europe Italy and Spain long vied sled with this section In being tho Ito home homo of oC brigands and the former lormer still holds nu 11 unenviable reputation but In Macedonia many ninny of oC the natives en ender un under der r Turkish rule have havo taken to the tho forests and mountains whence they wage unrelenting warfare alike nUke upon Christians and anI The short mountain range near Is their favorite rendezvous owing to Its lis adan advantageous situation near the frontier and the security It affords afford the brigands when hard pressed pre sed Some Rome of oC the chiefs portraits of whom appear in the ac accompanying Ac Accompanying I companying Illustration are lire wealthy and strange to say sa are respected by the I natives though they levy lev blackmail upon all nil the country round about their mountain fastnesses Th They y arc are usually of ot Macedonian birth