Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-09-25
OLIVIER PAIN.
Some Alleged Particulars Of His
Remarkable Death.
His Widow, In Palermo, Asserting That
the English AssaSsIuated Him - The
British Government Trying to Hide
Their Cruelty and Their Crime.
[Giornalc di s.cllia.1

The wife of Olivier Pain is in Palermo,
and lives by her trade of milliner and
dressnaker. She has many customers,
and is one Of the most fashionable ladies
of her profession. She is about thirty
four years old, and belongs, like her hus-
band, to a WELL do family. She is thor
oughly persuaded that her husband IS
dead, and that he was assassinated by the
English. Nine. Pain told our reporter
how he went to the Soudat. He made a
contract with the Figaro that be would
reach FL Mehdi and send correspondence
from the rebel camp for a salary of many
thousands of francs a month. He engaged,
also, TO send letters to many other papers.
French and foreign. He started from
Palermo with a letter of introduction to
I'll Mehdi, written by the teacher of Ell
Mehdi, who now resides in this city. He
stopped some days at Cairo, where some
friends tried in vain to dissuade him from
the dangerous enterprise. He said to NJ
Barrere, the French Consul, and to his
friends:
and shall do so even if lose my life for
it.n
lie wrote to Mime. Pain at Paris:
"~N- SeNA eAAS AOE L QOn moe
from myself the very maly dangers which 1
shall meet, but trust in my good star. You
do the same and live in quiet
He sent with this letter a photograph of
himself in a Soudanese costume, a long
white shirt with large sleeves, and white
bournous.
We have seen this picture, with shcrt
beard in the Arabian fashion, and with
daring air fit for a Moslem. Poor Pain
looked every inch Soudanese, resem-
bling some important Minister and Gen.
eral of FL Mehdi.
He reached FL Mehdi's camp in this at
tire, and was welcomed. He declared to
I'll Mehdi that he was a Moslem, too, and
In short time so gained his confidence
that he really became a Minister and a
General of Ell Mehdi.
Mime. Pain says she received letters reg
ularly from FL Mehdis camp, and there
fore those who asserted that her husband
had never reached Ell Mehdi were not we'll
Informed. These letters were all carried
to Egypt by a special courier of FL Mehdi.
1t was through the emissaries of FL
Mehdi. who often went to Cairo, that
Pain communicated with the Bosphore
Egyptten. This paper communicated with
his family and informed the public also
how Pain was in the Mehdi's camp and
had become his Minister. Yet, as Pain
could not send regular information the
Figaro stopped the salary to his family.
Then Mime. Pain came to Palermo to M.
Jurtal, her friend, leaving her four chill
dren In Paris. In Palermo she went to
work In order to save the money she had
left In Paris for her children.
After having served the Mehdi and
helped him to win many battles and to
occupy Khartoum, Pain became homesick
and wanted to return to his wife. Wolse-
ley had offered fifty pounds sterling for
his head. He had already sent a message
to his wife that he would soon meet her in
Palermo and take her back again to Paris.
Barring, the Consul General of England,
telegraphed from Cairo to Lord Granville:
Pain leaves the Mehdi. Shall we arrest
him or not!" The answer was: "Let
MIN go" Barring showed the telegram to
several PERSONS, and Pain was notified
that he might cross the English lines.
AT this point in her story Nine. Pain
began to cry.
England, however, never forgives, and
is tenacious in hatred as she is in busi-
~N' I'LL hoO CduScu bOO mucQ
trouble to the army of Lord Wolseley, and
revenge was necessary. A telegram far
different from that sent to Barring was
wired to Lord Wolseley. 1t is easy to
know what happened. NJ. Pain was taken
and shot dead. A few days afterward
Lord Wolseley sent to London the follow
ing laconic message: olivier Pain is
dead,' just as if he had informed his
Nb,k
piled with. O'Kelly, the Irish Deputy,
an old friend of Pain and of Rochefort
and Lockray, learned of the execution in
the House of Commons, and informed
Rochefort. Rochefort informed me-"
When Nine. Pain had given vent to her
sorrow she continued:
"The English believed that no one would
mind the death of reporter: but M. Pain
had friends among the greatest political
men, and enjoyed great reputation in the
French press, and his assassination aroused
a great deal Of Indignation in France.
Italy and elsewhere. Then they began to
circulate the most absurd reports that he
had gone to Congo or to Pondicherrv.
These were infamous lies invented to hide
his assassination. How could he reach
Congo alone without money, a country
which can be reached only by those who
have plenty of money and an escort? He
might have gone to Pondicherry, where
there is a telegraph, but he loved his FAM
lily, and he had already said he would join
US. But have got no news from Pondi-
cherry, while if he had gone there would
already have heard from m, on account
of the frequent communication from
Europe. The English are onlv trying To
hide their cruelty and their crime"