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How the Bright Boy Of q TErkfsh
school Was Beaten TO Death.
London Times.l

How the Bright Boy OF q T1rkfsh
school Was Beaten 10 Death,
London Times.l
PzkA, April l0.-As | was about to
close my letter on Friday last, informa-
ton was brought to me that a student of
the military school at Paucaldi, by name
Ali Nasmi, had been ha~stinadoed TO
death in one Of the prisons of the Seras-
kierste, or War Office, Stamboul. Tho
deed seemed to me 80 atroeious that /
should have hesitated to report it had not
the particulars been insisted upon with
90 much ssrnestness by my informant as
to leave me no doubt about the truth Of
this terrible narrative. | nave since re.
ceived iall confirmation that the tale ia
in the main perfectly true, though | am
now able to modify it in some of it's cir
cumstanees. | must now return to the
subject:
Four of the students at Pancaldi, sSon
after MiGhat's fall, wrote a letter to the
Turkish Journal Vakit denouuciug the
Illegally OF his Punishment, and plead.
ing for his recall. The editor Of the pa.
per told them he could not publish the
letter unless it was signed, their names
being necessary, not for publication, but
as a guarantee Of good faith. Having
thus wrested from them the young mems
signatures, the editor sent the MS. to
Bedif Pashs, the War Minister. The
students were then summoned TO the
oeTashier's presence, who upbraided
them in 20 measured terms, and upon
one Of them, Ali Nasmi, g youth Of TWEEN
ty-two, and the most promising and BOP
ular supil Q! Zoe school, avowiDg himself
the aq hOr OF the letter, the Minister
slapped his face and ordered the four 10
be shut up in ore OF the dungeons OF the
Seraskierate, Other students from the
school, suspected Of completely with the
writer Of the letter, we're subsequently
arrested, and, as | told you at the time,
sent in patches to distant provinces, some
OF them to Yemen. 1t WAS even eontem-
plated to remove the school from the
capital and transfer it from Pancaldi 10
Adrianople. The four students original
ly arrested, or, at least, Ali Nasmi, re.
manned behind, aud the latter was
brought before a court marital, or Con.
sell de Gusrre, held by the Minister'S or
der in one Of the dungeons of the War
0Gice. The court, it is now stated, pro.
nonnced sentence of death, atterwArd
commuted into the bastinado. Being
utrictly private, l have not been as yet
able fully TO ascertain whether The penal
ty vas Inflicted by means of that horrible
instrument Of torture known in Turkey
as the falca-on which the sufferers body
is stretched with bis feet upward, and the
blows OF the stick are administered on
the sides Of both feet-or whether he was
logged OF caned in any other way. Suf-
fee it hat he was beaten 10 death with
sticks. My frat informant told me that
the youth had been sentenced to receive
two hundred blows. and died on the spot
at the one hundred and fifth. Other ae-
counts lead us to believe that be died
within twenty-four hours Of his being re-
moved from the rack. The difference is
immaterisl, as it is we'll known that the
pain of the bastinsdo on the feetis so in.
tense as often to produce the rupture Of
a blood vessel.