The Portland daily press., 1895-06-12


choked with ropes, three times thrown
into faint. The prison-keeper caused
MIN to be bound to ladder and beat MN
with his shoe on the stomach, back and
mead and then spit in his mouth.
Hampartsum Boyajian of Hadpln Oh
cane at Hartk village on Aug. %, 1894;
he was kept three days in the sun tha1
he might sicken On Aug. 81 the soldiers
took Hampartsum and his companions to
Semal, where Zekki Pasha was They
We're beaten and imprisoned in church,
and were not allowed to go out 51 TO ateend aeno
TO natures wants. With z! com
to Moosh prison and kept there for Two
months. In one month per cent OF
them died from the effects of i'll usage,
They were kept in chains. Eight days
after they were brought to Bltlls Two
more died. -Four days before being
brought to trial Hampartsum Wa' forced
to stand "a hours without food and drink
and subjected to other fortunes, beating,
plucking out of hair etc. A foot chain
of nine okes was put on his hands. His
foot chains are now made heavier, he is
subjected to torture, and Kourds are en-
joined to beat him. He is forced to clean
privies
: The Armenian prisoners suffer all kinds
of ill usage, from which many die The
government official reports state that they
died natural deaths. Damadian's servant,
Sagho, of Alvaring village, was subjected
to cruel treatment. Then zaftieh named
Rechid committed sodomy on him, of
which he afterward boasted IN public that
he had done so in the presence of lot
of zaftiehs in order to dishonor him, add
ing. "This is the way we treat you.
The prison keeper named Abdul Kadeer
has a salary of 300 piasters month, yet
it is said that he has two or three Turkish
merchants doing business on capital
loaned by him, and he has lately built a
house costing about s25OO. All this money
has been squeezed from the Armenian
prisoners.
About three months ago three men
leading men of Kurtabaz of Pasin, We're
imprisoned without cause. They were put
into a room already overcrowded with
Kourds. Even the Kourds had not enough
room to stretch out at full length to sleep
at night These men were assigned to a
corner of the room close beside the hole in
the wall used as privy. The filth and
stencil was horrid, the vermin was even
worse; they became covered with lice,
and the feas were in swans. The Kourds
told them they had received order to ill
use them. They had not room even to
sit down at night, and so were obliged to
stand and lean against the wall close
beside the place used as a privy for Is
consecutive nights They were by that
time able to gain the good will Of some
of the Kourds by feeding them, and they
secured room enough to sit down at
night One of the Kourds was punished
bread, and he was put into chains for
three or four days for befriending the
zaiours
Sunday morning, April 81, cross was
discovered upon the door of the Catholic
Church in Arabkir Upon it were writ
ten various threats against Christians, in
the Turkish Language.
The next Sunday morning, April 26 in
the entry to one of the Protestant Chapels
was found dogs head, with cross at
tached. Upon the upright part of this
cross was written, English, French,
Russian, American, German, Armenian. !"
Upon the cross piece was written. Ye
Infidels You have become rebellious.
In short time you will see what will
become of you; o, you traitors against
the government "
ss.zIn the Gregorian Church was found
the rest of the dog, with a cross tied to
its tail, upon which were written the
names Bulgarian, Italian, Greek,N i'll
addition to those upon the Protestant
cross; and the threats were greater The
Armenians have grown rebellious, and
others, too but it is the turn of the Ar
menians to be punished with the sword.
Your fate has come He who accepts the
true faith is safe. -
The government was at once informed
of these occurrences, for aside from the
threats, which at such critical time are
very serious, the greatest indignity was
cast upon the Christian religion. The
indignity is much greater than it would
be regarded in America.
In the same city, not long ago, the
police went to the house of an Armenian
to arrest him for supposed nationalism. -
He made some resistance, and the police,
after disabling him, killed him in the
presence of his family with their bayo-
nets