New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-28
A NATURALIZED AMERICAN FLOGGED.
AN INCIDENT OF MR.. LEwIs's ADMIN1S11A TdoN
uF THE TANGIER CONSULATE.

OF THE TANGIER CONSULATE
Extraordinary accounts of the conduct of W. Reed
Lewis the American Consul at Tsngier. have been
published in the American press before this but a
stranger narrative than any seen heretofore Is con
tanned IN an issue of the Moorish paper FL Eco Manr-
tanop dated June 90 1889 The article describes
the fogging OF a naturalized American citizen by the
order of Mr.. Lewis. The story in substance is as
follows:
ON wednesday the wife Of the American naturazed
citizen Abraham Amselem complained to the Consul Of
her husbands treatment Of her. whereupon the latter
was by Mr. Reed Lewis who ordered him. after
some hours OF detention in room OF the Consular house
At the Marcham be tied to the trunk of tree where
the unfortunate Amseem received fifty ashes his back
This dash OF humanity the Of the American Consul
did end here 1t necessary that the spectacle
repeated in order to quench the thirst OF justice
felt by the representative of the great and liberal Republic
n North America In fact on the following morning
very wounds caused by the hogging OF the
previous day twentynne ashes more were applied which
left the unlucky Amselem in a very bad state.
Such is the scene which has created such commOiOn
all Tsngier such is the punishment used by Mr.
Reed Lewis and which would have believed had
not the back OF the victim the traces Of this
cruelty We do not add exaggerate numerous parties
have the condition Of Amseiem well as Doctors
Severe Cenrro and Magoral. and the latter certn
cate which preserve in editorial onice at the dis
posal Of colleagues and the public in general.
1t feared that Consul Lewis would have denied
blamed else, he did in the Outrages TO
Turgeman 1887, and Benazuli recently but in this
instance he has furnished the public with certificate
(Which is herewith annexed through friend who must
have been invited fun and witnessed the
voting scene, thus leaving doubt that the American
citizen was brutaly logged
'Tangier June 90. 1889.
sTo the Editor OF 'Al-Moghreb AL Aksa"
Dear Sir: on the OF the 1oggng inflicted the
naturalized American citizen Abraham Amselem, which
has caused gossip recently herein insert the
statement OF Dr. Wood addressed to the United States
Consul:
4
lem at whose logging L present. At the logging
considered the in proper physical condition for the
lash, from which he has suffered material
harm. physical otherwise. This morning found
the man in bed. AT my request he sat up
and took of. unasssted both shirts. His
shoulders marked by the lash by the ordinary blue
marks that any who has seen hogging will
readily recognize The skin is not broken nor is there
any welt or caused by the whip and the marks
presence 20 (twen.slx lashes with ordinary cutting
whip His is in wise prcudcisl 10 his doing
an ordinary sir your obedient servant
S. CARROLL WOOD. NJ. D.
Philadelphia U. s. A. 1871 South 10th-st.'
-"The sentence 100 lashes so administered on
Wednesday 26 on Thursday, and pa RENTED j remain,
a.., sir YOURS very truly, AN AMERICAN
Thus Consul Lewis has snnuled the DEGREES obtained
from the Sultan 10 sir MontehOe and the foreign rep
reensives orbddng hogging Of the IsIaees in the
Empire Of Morocco.