MOORS' HAUL.
Profitable Trading In Human Life. SUBSTANTIAL RANSOM. LONDON, November 21. The Rabat correspondent of the "Daily Mail'' says the total ransom paid Moroccan tribesmen for the release of the relatives of the French ResidentGeneral, M. Jules Steeg, and of the Arnaud family was £55,000. The cash paid included 70,000 Hassani douros, coins of the size of a five-shilling piece, which the French officials counted out to the Moors.
The operation was most protracted, as the raiders' suspicions were aroused by the thousands of bright new coins. They believed they had been specially coined for the occasion, without having a due percentage of silver. Their great bulk necessitated the requisitioning of extra mules for their removal.
One infuriated Moor attacked the wife of a French officer, Madame Lebrigand, and threw her baby through a window. The sentries rushed to Madame Lebrigand's assistance. The Moor barricaded the house and shot himself dead. (Sydnay "Bun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 22 November 1927, Page 7
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