3-066-030 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Jorgi, Mr. Suter's servant, carrying their bedding and provisions, 1881. '...extraordinary outrage perpetrated by Greek brigands, in the neighbourhood of Salonica...The brigands came at night, a band of some fifty well-armed men, and got an entrance into the house before their approach was perceived. Mr. and Mrs. Suter were roused from bed by the screams of their servants, and found it impossible to attempt either flight or resistance...the brigands...finally agreed to let Mr. Suter go for about one third of the ransom they originally demanded, with a full pardon for themselves and their accomplices. There were three captains or leaders of the band, named Aristidi, Giorgio Katzaro, and Nicola Dondonka, who seemed to be persons of a superior class, speaking Italian as well as Greek, and one of them speaking English; they are believed to have been Albanian or foreign Greeks, not belonging to that district. Mr. Suter was released, after two or three weeks' very disagreeable captivity, with his two servants'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.