Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-04-13
An Execution,in stamboul.
TuE nowsrRINo AND scimETAR.

TN Sunday morning tho VIE anu her phVhHn 'ur'
tho murderer OF the lato Ferik 1brnhim Pasha,
suffered tho last penalty OF the law" ut the STAN
boul end of Karakcui bridge. Friday morning
had been axcd for tho execution, and thon Satur-
day ; but FOR some reason, not nscertninable 10
was still further delayed till Sunday As the
sentence Of tho condemned couple Ind been con.
frmed several days before by the Sultan, itwould
have been Immediately carried into effect but for
tho difficulty of finding m oxeoutoner--the pop
ulnr feeling as 10 such services being now widely
different from what it was in tho good old times'
when tho bowstring and scimetar were seldom n
day unused. Al last. however. tho (considered)
high wages Of FIVE hundred piastres induced
gipscy to undertake the job, and on Sunday morn
ing. accordingly, this now unusual trngedy was
performed in tho area in the front Of tho fowl
shops beyond tho bridge Shortly after 8 o'clock
Frank time, tho prisoners were brought before
tho Xaptieth prison, under guard OF soldiers and
cavasses--the man on foot, with his hands tod
behind him, the woman In n sedan chair. On ar.
riving Mt the end Of tho bridge tho guard formed
into n halfcirsle, shutting out tho crowd OF fifty
sixty people who had gradually gathered bo-
hind them on tho way from the Zapteth.
Tho woman was then handed out Of the chair,
and, from the sudden tremor which seized on her
after catching sight of tho two upwrisht poles
with their grim cross-beams, and the move
ment of preparation among the guard. IL was evil
don't that what could Mt most have been only
suspicion in her mind before, then flashed into
terrible certainty. She moaned piteoasly Mt first,
then broke into u low cry Of ''amdn, aman I"
fmcrcy. mercy,) and asked what they were going
to do with her. She was told, "merely to exile
her," and thus partly quieted her, though still
moaning and quiyering With terror. was led into
the old black wooden khan at the corner Of tho
street. There she was Immediately seized and
pinioned, screaming and struggling fearfully tho
while, till the noose rapidly slipped over her hend
and pulled Mt either end by cavass. had done it's
quicting work. The body was thon carried out
and hung up on the frail gallows prepared for
it. While this half Of the tragedy had been in
course of accomplishment within the khan, tho
male prit bad sufieio ol his punishment outside
As soon rs the woman was removed into tho
building, IN officer read aloud statement of
the prisoners crime and sentence then an
nounccd to the wreched man for the first timc.--
lilo was then told to kneel down. which he did.
stretching forward his neck. without hesitation Or
resistance, but looking us bystander remarked,
like n man who had died yesterday Tho gipsey
then drew his yntaghan Ia heavy inwardly -cury-
ina Ilade) and struck single-handed blow close
TO the shoulder endof the neck; the criminal fell
over on his face aud made n few convulsivo
struggles, but three additional hacks from tho
sword Of n cavnss Mt length severed tho bend en-
tircly from the trunk, and completed the judicial
hatchery.
The hcnd was then placed, face up, by tho side
of the body. which, with that Of the woman, re-
maincl exposed to view tbrought the day, with
pacards announcing their crime stitched to the
front of both. The man was In rags, and bare
footed, but the woman was dressed in fine yash-
mack, clarct coored .terdiec. and wide yellow
leather boots--in the ordinary style OF Turkish
lady. To judge from her face, which was plain
Iy visible, on near inspection, through the thin
yashmdck, she was about thirty-six thirty.eight
years of age. with features which still retained
much of their former benuty. These last were but
slightly distorted, the chief token of the agony
which had passed over them being few drops of
blood round the nostrla, and q contraction OF
the lower muscles of tho forehead. The man APP
peared to be about twenty y-eight or thirty years
of age and though despatched with blood his faco
bore all the calm and seemingly painless com
posure of handsome painted mask. Sinoc last
week We bnve been informed that jealousy. and
not a criminal intrigue with the male murderer
had been the impeing motive Of the woman's
share in her husbands death. The latter, it ap-
pears, had taken to himself young slave, and,
maddencd by his refusal to turn away this tres
passer on the conjugal domain, the wretched wife
planned and accomplished th, old mans death.--
LeDant Herald.