Essad Pasha.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 21, 1913:
    If the patriotic bandit, Essad Pasha, former commander of the Turkish forces in Scutari and recently self-proclaimed Prince of Albania, has not been slain, as reported, it must be a matter of some surprise to him. A violent death has been due to him from several sources for a long time, in full accordance with the principles of the vendetta which he has assiduously followed. He was credited with the killing of Riza Pasha, whom he succeeded in command at Scutari, and before that he had wrought private vengeance on several of his personal and political foes in Constantinople.
    His death, if it has really occurred, may have a good deal of influence upon the ultimate settlement of the knotty problem of Albania. He has shown himself a very capable as well as determined soldier. He was in control, for the time at least, of a considerable army, variously reported at from twenty to forty thousand men, a large part of whom were Albanians. He was exceedingly popular within his own province, had wealth and extensive family connection, and might easily have made much trouble for whatever Government undertook the preservation of order in Southern Albania. In the current dispute between the Bulgarians and the Greeks his sympathies would have been strongly with the latter, but it is by no means certain that they would have prevented him from making terms with the rivals of Greece. It is one of the chief difficulties in the settlement of the thorny question of the future of Albania that the various tribes are as deeply hostile to each other as they are toward any outsiders who seek to meddle with them. A large portion of them are still inclined toward the Turks, and there is no telling what they will do now that the Turks are eliminated.