The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-03 00:00:00

THE TRIAL OF RISK ALLAH BET.

The trial of Risk Allah Bey has created the greatest
excitement during the past week in Brussels. The
particulars are, doubtless, fresh in the recollection
of our readers, but the following is an outline of the
came:-
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On the 30th of Much, 1F.435, between the bourn of
seen and eight o'clock in the Morning, a young English-
man, named Charles Beefily, wu killed in OU bed at
Antwerp by the discharge of • gun. Remaly occupied •
room, numbered aeven, on the second floor of the Hotel du
bin. and he had for a travelling companion a per•on named
Risk Allah, who la deecribed an a native of Lebanon, for-
merly an officer of the Turkish Army, and subeequentlydomi•
cited in London. Immediately after the fatal occurrence
Rink Allah was arrested on the charge of having murdered
Readly, but was subsequently .et at liberty in conacquense
of the report of •
,jelfie d outroc,ion. who attributed the
death of the young kngliahman to suicide. Suneequent
vestigetions, however, induced the Belgian Government to
renew the prosecution of Risk Allah. During the trial •
large number of witnesses have been examined.

The following in an account of the latter part of the
trial. a. pent over by the apecial corre.pondent of the
Daily Telegraph :
BRVSSILS, Saturday.
There la a tide in the affairs of prisoners standing on their
trial for crimes of magnitude, which, taken at the flood, may
lead on to •c mittal and when the Presidrnt of the Brunels
Court of Anise evoked yesterday from tire gun-makers and
a surgeon the admission of ipossiblttty of Really'. having .
kill. a himself, the flood time of Risk Allah's dark and
turbulent tide did indeed seem to have heen taken for his
advantage But to-day that tide has unexpreteety turned ;
and the case for the defence has gone less swimmingly than
It seemed at first to he going. The opinion of the experts,
given with qualifying doubt., has been, In three cases, re-
tracted and the evidence at present Is hot evenly balanced
for and against the bare posatbillty that this COU,II have been
• Weide and not murder. Two Antwerp gunmakere and M
Ciarrin lieutenant de place, hold to the theory that suicide
Wag possible : the officer even goes so far se to say that
it was in his belief more likely, from all appearanees,
than the act of an assitaeln On the other band, Masers
Jansen and giontimiy, the tiruseels ronnaken. and Dr,
behoppens, the Antwerp surgeon, having re-considered the
question, with the help of fresh experiments, decidedly
state that the young man could not have destroyed his own
life and left snob appearances as were observed at the time
when his death was discovered.
l'he evidence for the defence wee continued this morning
ho the W. 111111100,1 of several letters throwing some light on
Itesdlya I ve affair, and on the probable Coo.litiOn of his
nile cl In tie first of these 1-tiers his intended mother in-
law reproaches him wirli tot having been frank with her in
regard to t.la annual Income, wildh is far iron being 1001..
as he had represented It . and also in regard to the state of
his health. as his being subject to epileptic tits would ki an
instirm.ontabie ottwarre to his
She, thentose, roquab hlm So= ;liressm