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Show DRIQANDO QUEER IN QREECE. Treat Prltonsr Wall, Out Intlst on Ramon Money M. Btravalopoulot, a young min, who wat captured recently by brig ands, has returned to Athens. lis ttatct lhat at he wat about to go on board bit yacht at Rghlon ho was to-coated to-coated by a fashionably drcssol young man, who kept him In conver atlon whUo four other men crept up behind him and tolled and gagged him. They then carried him off to tho mountain! to which they were accompanied by tho fashionable young man, who turned out to be t notorious brigand chief named Pana poulos. M, Slravalopoulos wat taken to a largo cavern or grotto, very comfortably com-fortably furnished, where the brigands 'compelled him to write to his father, a rich banker, for a ran ton or 4,000 In gold. Hit captors gave blm plenty of food and wlnrt and evon Irtlttcd on hit laying bit prayers twlco a day. They also msde him road various Improving books, of which thcro was a largo supply In th irolto. On tho arrival of tho moner It was convoyed to a monastery Is tho mountains, whera ono of the monks counted It and blinded It over to tho robbers. A great featt wit held tho tamo ovontng In tho grotto, and tho brliindt becoming Intoil catod, tho prisoner made hit escape ind reaohod tho railway after a Jour tuy of flvo houra on foot. Ho re turn-.J to tho grotto as soon aa i forco of pollco oould bo got togtther, hut tho brigands had all decampod. London Olobo. |
