Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — MAHMOUT KILLED BY BANDITS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAHMOUT KILLED BY BANDITS

Noted Bulgarian, Who Met Many American Wrestler*, Meet* Untimely Death Near Blli*tria.

Yusslff Mahmout, a Bulgarian wrestler, who met a number of American matmen, including Frank Gotch. by whom he was defeated, was killed by a band of Bulgarian bandits in the

mountains near Silistria, his home, according to a story told by two Turkish wrestlers who arrived in this coun<ry recently. Mahmout was petty officer in the Bulgarian army during the late war, and, according to their story, went to the town to draw his money to pay off the men in his command. Sixteen bandits, learning the purpose of his trip, waylaid him on his return, but because Mahmout had procured only orders instead of gold coin, they killed him.

Yussiff Mahmout.