The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-28 00:00:00

TRIAL OE TELE TURKISH PACHA.

The second sitting of the court appointed to try the 1
prisoners concerned in the murder of the Greek girl at
Varna took place on the Bth.. At the conclusion cf the
first day's sitting ooe of the prisoners, named Moustafa,
attached to the deftice of the paella, was under exami-
nation, and his interrogatory was proceeded with at the
conaniencement of the second sitting: The appearance
of the prisoner was now much changed ; his military
uniform had been taken from him, and he wore a
kind of prison &etre and was in irons. The president,
after recommending him for his own interest to reveal
-the whole truth, proceeded as. follows with his ex-
amination :—" You have stated that Hussein, having
heard that the carrying off of N6d4la, the Greek girl,
was known at Varna, bad decided on baring her assassi-
nated by you ?" "Yes ;he said, If the pacha hears
of it he will kill- me,' and he then gave me orders to
kill the 'girl and throw the body into the water."—
" Where did Hussein tell you this ?" "In the court.
yard."—" Did any one know what he told you ?" " I '
cannot say."—" War there no one present?" "Yes,
the aide-de-camp Meheinnied, but I.do not know whe-
ther Hussein spoke to him of the affair."—The
prisoner then stated that lie went to seek Vacil and '
the 'young girl. "I told her," he continued, "that
we'were going to take a walk. She said that she would
not gOen foot, and I said that we had a carriage at a
short distance., We quitted the village. It was then
night: While we were going along I told Vacil that the
girl Must he killed or drowned." President : " What
reply did Vacil make ?" "Nothing. I explained to
him that .Hussein was alarmed at its having become
known at Varna that he had carried off a Greek girl ;
than he had been told that search was being made for
her, and that he 'wished to get rid of her. We then
Proceeded on our way. A shorter distance further .on
cut.a 1 1 Lhre t7lown.Vacil ri.pe? with which
we were provided, and— telP•i3"2.--ricZose at the end of
it. I. then took the rope and threw it over the girl's
neck"."--e" Yen declare that it was you who threw the
rope over the neck of the girl, but that Vacil male the
noose e re yee.".,--But did net the girl see you pre-
paring the rope ?" "No, it was quite dark."—" What
did the girl say When yon threw the tope over her neck f'
"Nothing ; for the moment I had done so I threw my-
self on her, and, Oiled the rope tight, and she fell
motionless to the ground without uttering a cry."
—e." When you saw the girl was dead, what did
yeti do ?" "We stripped off her clothes, which we
made a' package of in her cloak. While taking off
her
.."—" hat did you do
clothes, I held her by the feet, and Vacil by the
arm with the package?" "We
put it on a horse. which we had in waiting near the
place, and went away:" —And you- left the body lying
on the ground naked ?"—" I picked up some grass and
branches of shriihs, and threw over it."—" When the
body was fonnd, it had seine bayonet wounds on it.
How were they made ?" "I do not know."—The pre-
sident then commenced the interrogatory of Mehemined
Aga, the aide.de-camp of the pasha. " Where did
you first see the girl Nedela 1" In the street one
'evening."— -"How long was this before you left Tool-
tcha?". " About eight or ten days."— " Did you speak
to her ?" "I was going to the Danube with an'order
:from the pacha. • As she appeared to be coming to. speak

to me, I asked her what alit; wanted, to which she re-
plied that she had some business with the paoha, and I
then continued my road." The interrogatory of this
prisoner was continued on some unimportant details,
but it was found impossible to get any satisfactory ans-
wer from him, and the prisoner said : " Mehemmed will
not reply sincerely to any of the questions which we put
to him, and it is therefore useless to continue the inter.
rogatory. Let the Prisoner be remove')." The sittiog
then closed, and further proceedings were adjourned to
the 12th.