Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-30
AN EGYPTIAN SENSATION.
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tsrsu In Cairo.

AN EGTY1IdN cbHSn
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,svsa In Cairo.
A Cairo correspondent writing to the
London Times says: A certain poisoh-
inc case. which is shortly coming on LOT
hearing before the native tribunals, rs
causing such interest among the public
here that il has induced me to obtain de-
tails. which, I think, will not be without
interest to the public at home. They are
az follows:
For years thirty or mcre) there has
existed in the Government at caro- q
certain Sheik Mahmoud, chief clerk TO
the various governors. This man is
most corrupt, artful, INSCRIPTIONS, the
ruin Of many families, extorting goid
from all persons who came TO the Gov
eminent to obtain grants, employments.
etc. also from heads or sheiks oil
guilds in consideration Of their appoint
ment as such.
There has existed in Cairo also an
other man of the same calibre, named
Ahmed Mounib, for many years IN
Government employ, and in the new re-
organization Of police temp. MIR. Gill;
ford Lloyd admitted as a maoun or
chief of police district in Cairo. ms
man is also well known as unscrupnlons
and corrupt. To these may be added
Said Mahomed, chief Of the Cairo fire
brigade, and one or two others. These
formed society which could not easily
be overcome by the merchants, traders,
etc., and, with the Sheik Mahmoud at
the gouvernoral to influence the COVER
nors, and with the other members OF
the coterie in the districts, these per-
sons, some of them powerfully pro-
tected by high officials, were wellnigh
inyincible, and Cairo (the ordinary In
habitants) stood in awe of them accord
ingly. as it was well known they would
stick at nothing.
Formerly, also, there existed aswriter
in the gouvernoral one Mahomed Etendi
Ibrahim, who, being with Sbeik Nah
mould, had ample means Of observing
his corrupt practices. These two quar-
relied eventually. By the sheik's in
fluence Mahomed lbrabim was turned
out OF his employment, and became a
ruined man, even prosecuted Still by
Sheik MahmOud.
But. unable to endure this persecu-
ton, after a time Mahomed lbrahim
went to Captain Fenwick, commandant
of police, and preferred his complaint,
and said that he could prove that the
finance department had been inviting
ly paying pensions up to the present day
to three women who had died fifteen
years ago, and this with the cognizance
of Sheik Mahmoud and another of the
coterie.
when" he said to Captain Fen
wick, You have examined this and
found it true, | will tell you of fifty
other frauds which that man has COM
mitted; but ask meanwhile prOtec-
ton, and that the affair should be in
yestigated by you personally a an Eng
lishman. Otherwise the truth will not
come out"
Captain Fenwick, knowing how cor
rupt was the sheik and how Cairo
groaned under his injustice, turned his
whole attention to the matter, with
the result that it was discovered to be
true. Seeing now that the affair was
in the hands Of an EDglishman, that
Mahomed Ibrahim had made good his
case, and knowing that he could prove
other things, these worthless, Sheik
Mahmoud, ETC., saw but one course
that is, to poison the old man, who,
feeling his life to be in danger, again
appealed to the police, and at the same
time telegraphed to his Highness the
khedive, who was pleased to order that
he should be protected. Apolice agent
was accordingly placed with Ma
homed Ibrahim, and accompanied him
for some days. In fit, however, of
overconfidence. Mahomed Ibrahim.
after noting to some Of the inhabitants
of his district that he had been invited
by Sheik Mahmoud to dine, nominally to
arrange their differences, dismissed his
police agent. and went off by himself
to the sheik's house. 1t appears, how
ever, that he was sent on from thence,
being told apparently that tbs sheik
was not at home, to the police caracol
Of DaIb. el-Ahmar, Cairo, where was
Ahmed Mounib, another of the cOterie.
Here he was given by Ahmed Mounib
some sherbet out of a bowl, while
several persons assembled drank out OF
glasses. 1t was supposed that the old
man, however careful he might have
been as to what he ate and drank in
Slick Mahmoud's house, had no fear in
what was given him at this
place. (Shiek Mahmoud and Mounib
were most intimate friends.) After
drinking the sherbet he stayed ten
minutes and then felt so i'll that he had
to 60. He began vomiting, was found
on the road by black, who helped
him home, swearing as he went along
that they had managed to~poison him,
but that he would be reyenged. He
told his case to several persons. He
continued in his house for about three
days, vomiting terribly at intervals,
and finally died.
Ahmed Mounib showed himself much
in the medical certificate,
md, as police officer of the district, re-
ported a death with suspicion of foul
play to Captain Fenwick in his morn
ng's report, as in duty bound, under |
,ain OF dismissal. At once Captain
7enwick's suspicious were aroused. lie
ent and arrested all persons who |
night in any way be acquainted with
my details. examined them all in his |
,wn private room, and away from
my pressure which might be
brought to bear on them, wrote
nut the evidence which, if want
ng in some little details, was Suili-
lent TO leave no moral doubt Of the
oul play on the part Of the men now
ccused arrested Mounib and others,
Believed to be implicated, and sent the
violence to the native tribunal. AT first
hese authorities took IN the case with