MOORS’ CAPTIVES
£50,000 PATD FOR RELEASE (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (“Sun” Cable.) LONDON, 21st Nov. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Rabat reports that the total ransom paid for the release of Stoeg’s and Arnaud’s party was £50,000. The. payment included 70,000 coins the. size of a five shilling piece. French officials counted the' money out to the Moors, the operation being most protracted. The raiders’ suspicions were aroused by thousands of bright new coins, as they believed they had been specially coined for the occasion without the due percentage of silver. The great hulk of money necessitated the requisitioning of extra, mules for its removal. An infuriated Moor attacked Madame Lebrigaml, wife of a French officer, and threw her baby through a window. Sentries rushed to Madame Lebrigaml’s assistance, and the Moor was barricaded in a house, where he shot himself dead.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 22 November 1927, Page 7
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141MOORS’ CAPTIVES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 22 November 1927, Page 7
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