£50,000
RANSOM PAID TO MOORS. London, November 21. The “Daily Mail's” corespondent at Rabat reports that the total ransom paid for the release of Steeg's and Arnaud’s party w:is £50,000. the payment included 70,000 Hassinii douros, coins tho size of a fiveshilling piece. French officials counted the money out to the Moors, ihe operation being most protracted. The raiders’ suspicions were aroused by the thousands of bright new coins, as they believed these had been specially coined for the occasion without the due percentage of silver. The great bulk of the money necessitated the requisitioning of extra mules for its removal. An infuriated Moor attacked Madame le Brigand, wife of a French officer, and threw her baby through a window. Sentries rushed to Madame le Brigand’s assistance, and the Mor barricaded the house and shot himself dead.—(Sydney “Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 22 November 1927, Page 9
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139£50,000 Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 22 November 1927, Page 9
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