The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-08-10
AN ORIENTAL EXECUTION.
ENFORCEMENT OF A CAPITAL CON-
vICTIoN IN EGYPT.
Careful Deliberation of the Prisoner,
Mohammcdan, in HIS Last Re
liQious Rites

mOnammCuan, III his Inst lie
ligious Rites.
~ N the night of December 1s,
1890, a murder of singular
Y atrocity for Egypt, was COM
mitted in Alexandria, Egypt.
A respectable Greek, NJ. Limperopoulo,
his wife, and woman servant were all
murdered, the motive apparently being
robbery.
After long hunt the murderers were
captured, tried and sentenced, but, being
all Muslin Qor. as it turned out, it was
committed by Arabs, the trial took
place before the native tribunals, and,
under Mohammedan law, the record of
all capital convictions must be trans.
mitted to the Grand Ladi for approval
before execution can follow.
The Grand Ladi annulled the sentence
because OF some formal error in the ax-
animation of the witnesses, certain pro-
visions of the religious law not having
been complied with; and a new trial
was ordered. This resulted, as did the
first, in the capital conviction aud seu-
tence Of Bekkit Suleiman, one of the Of
tenders, and in the condemnation of the
Others to life imprisonment.
Yesterday, writes correspondent Of
the Richmond (Va.) Times, the sentence
of death was carried out at sunrise in
military parade ground near the fort
Kom- -El-Dik. Up TO the last the advo-
Gates and friends of the murderer hoped
for a communication, and this on two
| grounds-tirst, because it was the first
occasion for an execution since the in
stallation of the new Khedive; and that
fact, as we'll as the presumed reluctance
of lad of eighteen to enforce the death
penalty, was thought to justify the hope
of clemency. Still greater confidence
arose from the fact that the great fasting
month of Islam had just iuished-the
month of Ramadan-and this concludes
with a feast corresponding to our Easter
in nature-called Bairam-which is a
time of joy, of universal exchange of
visits, of ceremonial receptions, and,
with sovereigns, of clemency. The late
Khedive invariably signaized the return
OF Balram by releasing all prisoners
whose terms of punishment had nearly
expired, and often by Communication.
But Suleiman did not profit by the
great festival, and yesterday morning,
just as the gray dawn was streaking the
east, he was awakened in his prison with
tAe news that his appeal for grace had
been refused aud he must Immediately
prepare for death.
Bound and handcuITed, but as imper-
turbable as the least concerned of his es.
cort, he was taken to the place of execu-
tion, and at the foot of the gallows he
maintained the same fatalistic compo-
sure.
The prosecuting officer of the tribunal
which tried him asked if he had any be.
quest to make or desired to make any
statement. He replied with pertec.
composure:
81 am innocent and Allah knows it.
The guilty are Abou Zeit and Ahmed
Sathin."
"Then you wish nothing3"
"Yes. | want to pray and to PROSTATE
myself before Allah"
"You may"
''But can one pray who has not
washed2"
A stone vessel of water was offered
him-the gullah in which drinking
water is always kept in Egypt. They
unbound his hands, and he walked un-
der the scaffold and performed the alb
lutions that every MUSLIN observes before
prayer. He washed first his feet, then
his hands and face, and then riused his
mouth, refusing to let any one help him
or wait on him.
He then unwound from his waist
the shawl he used as band, and spread.
ing 1t on the ground under the scalTold,
whose floor was higher than his head, he !
stood on It and offered up his prayer,
prostrating himself four times with his
forehead to the earth, praying to Allah |
for mercy and invoking the aid and in.
tercession Of his Prophet.
He drank from the gullah and said:
al am ready"
He was then pinioned, aud he walked |
up the steps to the scaffold, and lifting
his voice, called out:
"salaam aleikum va Ialam"-peace be
to you, Muslim-and he added in Ara
bic:
"Peace be to all men, and the order OF
Allah. Peace to the children of Islam.
We belong to Allah, and to him we re-
turn. testify that there is no God but
he alone. lie turned his face to the east
and bowed.
1t would be impossible to exaggerate
in description the majesty aud dignity of
this sceno, notwithstanding ones assu-
rance of the prisoners guilt and of the
justice of his fate.
Alone and hopeless of aid, he turned
his face toward the glowing east and the
holy cities, and, his last act q prayer, his
last word declaration of his unswerving
belief, he looked out upon the thousands
assembled to witness his end with the un-
troubled assurance OF his fatalistic creed.
An so, as the scant rays OF the morn.
ing illumined the sad machinery of death,
he was swung into eternity, solemuly
pronouncing, as the cord tightened
around his neck, his creed's defiance to
the unbeliever.
"La illaha illalahw (there is no God
but Allah and died.
Pine Wool For Pillows.
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