Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-04-05

4 MSuliu VINO was EoooGNh Ae WIZ Was
known and loved for rs gentleness
and nobleness. He had been to say
his prayers. like all good Musulmans.
and then to eat his dinner; and while
at dinner his jewel room had been en-
tered. and this tray full Of jewels car
ried off. There was no che whom the
officers could suspect; 10 one could
have approached the Sultan's jewel
room unperceived, unless it were two
Croatians who worked near that part
of the garden of the palace that day.
These two unfortunates, who were
brothers. were seized end searched.
Not the slightest thing was found in
their possession which would tend to
criminate them, but still it was thought
that they might have had confeder-
ates, and they were given over to the
prison authorities, who put them to
torture again aud again on the rack
to make them canfess, but always use
less. At last the chief prison author
ity thought of method of making
them confess, knowing them to be
brothers. He had them brought out
together, and announced his intention
of applying "the bell'' to the younger
brother, hoping that the elder would
speak to save his brother, though he
would not for himself. The bell was
made of iron, shaped like hogshesd
and about the same size, and hung
upon a chain held by an immense
crane. The bell was heated red hot,
and let down over the doomed mans
head to the floor, inclosing him in its
fiery embrace. Whether the brothers
were innocent or not, no one ever
knew. They both denied, and both
passed under the bell. One, the Ell.
der, died in its fiery torture; while
the other was burned so that his face,
hands and arms were horribly disfg.
ured ever afterward, and he was left
totally blind. His lips were burned
away, leaving his white teeth show
ing forever in a horrid, hooking
smile. The treasure was not discov-
cred, and no one ever thought of con-
Meeting the two robberies. Whoever
had committed them was evidently
afraid to make use of the results, and
the whole affair was hidden in abso-
lutte mystery. The unfortunate Croat
was allowed to beg his bread in the
Grand Rue de Pera, partly to strike
terror to the hearts of the possible
malefactors, and partly because the
prison keepers, hard hearted as they
are, could not bear to submit the poor
wretch to further torture.
There may be some who think that
nobody is put to torture in these days,
but the writer of this article had
cousin by marriage hung up by bis
heels, with his head in tank OF boil
ing quicklime, until all his hair
and scalp were burned of, and his
sight was destroyed. Tuis was a no.
bic youth Of 10, and he was suspected
by the Turks OF carrying dispatches
during the late Russo-Turkish war for
the benefit Of the Russians. He is
now insane in the hospital at the
Seven Towers. After this there were
few arrests and no torturing. One
night poor young fellow who kept
very small tobacco shop in st. George,
where he sold tobacco to the men who
worked@n Baroutji Bashi's powder
factory in the valley below the vii
lage of St. George, which crowns the
hill, had dream. 1t was remark
able dream, and he thought good
deal of it during the day. But the
young man-Georgio by name-was
by nature a very silent person, and be
never spoke of it. The next night he
dreamed again, and the next night
always the same. He seemed to see
himself standing in front of the little
foot bridge which spanned the stream
which came from the DEVILS Cave,
and somehow he felt as if he knew
that the stolen money and jewels were
all lyiny there for him to take. He
did not stop to question the right or
wrong of it. He only considered that
he had had revelation from the 9TH
err world, and that he had right to
do what the spirits had given him the
sign of.
The third day he arose and went TO
the village priest, for he was devout
Greek in religion, and got little
holy water, and with that, some charms
in either shoe and bits of holy relics
around his neck, he felt safe from any
evil spirits which might inhabis he
Devil Cave, and waiting until dark
he made his way directly to the little
foot bridge. He searched it and sank