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Show MUST DIE OR WED BEIGAND. Fate in Store for Helen K. Stone. Unless Un-less a Hansom of $100,000 is Paid. Paris, Sept. 28. A Paris newspaper correspondent sends word to the Figaro Fi-garo on the staff of which he is employed, em-ployed, that he has just returned from a visit to Miss Helen M. Stone of the American board of foreign missions, who is held by brigands in a mountainous mountain-ous region of Turkey. The correspondent writes that he succeeded in locating Miss Stone rn an almost inaccessible mountain defile. The -chief of the outlaws permitted the correspondent to see Miss Stone and talk with her. Miss Stone told her visitor vis-itor that she had been treated with exceeding ex-ceeding -courtesy ever since her capture. cap-ture. Two brigands were detailed to act as her personal servants, providing her with good food and showing her every attention. The brigands had inductions in-ductions to obey her merest whim and to show with what degree of consideration considera-tion she was treated she told the newspaper man that having exhausted all of the films of her kodak, she had said that she wished she had more. The desire was repeated to the cnief of the 'brigands, who at once posted a courier off to Constantinople to secure a supply for her. This meant a week of steady traveling by mule over dangerous dan-gerous and rocky mountain paths. The leader of the brigands told the correspondent that unless a ransom of $100,000 was forthcoming within thirty days Miss Stone would either be put to death or compelled to marry one of the bandits. It is believed that the bandit will keep his word. The situation recalls the capture by these sa.me brigands in the same region six years ago of lime, Gerard de Trinc-ville, Trinc-ville, a beautiful French woman who is now a Carmelite nun. Through the dishonesty dis-honesty of a Turkish official by whom the ransom was negotiated, the money-failed money-failed to reach the bandits. The lovely French girl was therefore forced to become the. wife of .a . member of the outlaw gang. She was rescued seven l months later in a battle in which her father killed her bandit husband. |