The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-08
AN EGYPTIAN SENSATION.
Incidents Of a Case That Is Now Exciting In.
teress In Cairo-How Egyptians DIS
p0se of Their Enemies.

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teress In Cairo-How Egyptians DIS
pose of Their Enemies.
A Cairo correspondent, writing on
the both of October to The London
Times, says: A certain poisoning
case. which is shortly coming IN for
hearing before the native tribunals, is
causing such interest among the pub
lie here that it has induced me to OBJ
tain details. which, l think, will not
be without interest to the public at
home. They are as follows:
For years (thirty or more) there has
existed in the government at Cairo a
certain Sheik Mahmoud, chief clerk t o
the various governors. This man is
most corrupt, artful, INSCRIPTIONS,
the ruin of many families, extorting
gold from all persons who came to the
government to obtain grants, employ
ments, etc, also from heads or shcikhs
Of guilds in consideration OF their APP
pointment as such.
There has existed in Cairo also an
other nan of the same caliber, named
Ahmed Mounib-for many years in
government employ, and in tho new
reorganization of police temp. Mr..
Clifford Lloyd admitted as n maoun
or chief of u police district in Cairo.
This man is also wei! known as I'M
scrupulous and corrupt To these
may be added Said Mahomed, chief of
the Cairo fire brigade, and one or two
others. These formed a society which
could not easily be overcome by the
merchants, traders, etc, and, with
the Sheik Mahmoud at The govern
ment to influence the governors, and
with the other members of the coterie
in the districts. these persons, some of
them powerfully protected by high
officials, were well nigh inyincible,
and Cairo (the ordinary ini,a bltants)
stood in W of them accordingly, as
it was well known they would stick at
nothing.
Formerly also there existed rs
writer in the Gouvernoral one Mahom-
cd Effendi 1brahim, who. being with
Sheik Mahmoud, had ample means of
observing his corrupt practices.
These two quarreled eventually. By
tho sheik's influence Mahomed Ibra-
him was turned out of his employ
ment, and became q ruined man. even
prosecuted still by Sheik Mahmoud.
But, unable to endure this pcrsccu-
ton, after q time Mahomed Ibrahim
went to Capt. Fenwick, command
ant of police, and preferred his COM
plant, and said that he could prove
that the finance department had been
unwlttingly paving pensions up to the
present day to three women who had
died fifteen years ago. and this with
the Gpgnizance of Sheik Mahmoud
and another of the c%oterie.
When" he said to Capt. Fenwick,
you have examined this and found it
true, | will tell you of fifty other
frauds which that man has committed,
but l ask meanwhile protection, and
that the affair should be investigated
by you personally as an Englishmau,
otherwise the truth will not come
out"
Capt. Fenwick, knowing how cor
rupt was the skeik, and how Cairo
groancd under his injustice, turned
his whole attention to the matter, with
the resultthat it was discovered to be
true. Seeing nowst that the affair was
i'll the hands of IN Englishman, that
Mahomed lbrahim had made good his
case, and knowing that he could prove
other things, these worthies-Sheik
Mahmoud, etc, saw but ono 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 telegraplled to his higllness
the khediye, who was pleased to or.
der that he should be protected. A
police agent was accordingly placed
with Mahomed Ibrahim and accom-
panied him for several days. In a fit,
however, of oyercontidcncc, Mahom.
ed lbrahim, after noting to some of
the inhabitants OF his district that he
had been invited by Shiek Mahmoud
to dine, nominally to arrange their
difference, dismissed his police agent,
and went off by himself to the sheik's
house. 1t appears, however, that he
was sent on from thence, being told
apparently that tho sheik was not at
home, to the police caracol of Darb-
el-Ahmar, Cairo, where was Ahmed
Mounib, another of the coterie. Here
he was given by Ahmed Mounib some
sherbet out of a bowl. whilo 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 Sheik Mahmoud's house, had
no fear in accepting what was given
at'this place. (Sheik Mahmoud and
Mounib were most intimate iricads.)
After drinking the sherbet he stayed
ten minutes and then felt so i'll that he
had to 60. He began vomiting, vas
found on the road by a black, who
helped him home, swearing as lie went
that ho would be revenged. He told
his case to several persons. He con-
tinued in his house for about three
days vomiting terribly at intervals,
and finally died.
Ahmed Mounib showed himself
much interested in the medical certiti-
cate, and, as police officer of the dis
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