The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-16
VENGEANCE OF
THE MUSCOVITE
Murderers of the Consul Were
Soon Executed.
SPEEDY TRIAL AND SENTENCE
ACCOUNT GIVEN BY DEAD MANS
SUCCESSOR.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 1.-THE follow
ing telegram has been received by the
government authorities from DR.. Man
delstam. who succeeded NJ Rostkov-
ski, the murdered Russian consul. at
Monastir. giving an account of the
court-martia! Of the murderer:
After proceedings extending over
four days, the military court presided
over by Edhem Bey today CAV judg-
ment. During the trial exercised the
rights and privileges of public prose
cutor, in view of the circulation Of the
outrageous report that the consul had
insulted and struck the Turkish sentry.
and even that he had shot at him. I
insisted that before the court gave
judgment it should clear up the cir
cumStances Of the affair. BY replying
TO series of questions put by myself,
the court found as follows:
The sentry did not give the consul
military salute. The consul first
beckoned to him and then left the car
riage and asked the man his name It
was absolutely proven that NJ. Rost-
kOvsk neither shot at Hahn (the SEN
try) nor in any way insulted him, but
that Hahn Immediately fired at the
consul several times, and when the
consul fell, stepped up and fired again
with the rifle close to the consuPs head.
afterward battering his temples with
the butt end of his rifle.
The Persons Implicated.
Hahn was charged with the actual
murder. Another sentry, named Abb
bas. who was charged with having
failed to afford the consul any protec-
ton, and two other sentries, Seinel and
ASSN, who were absent at the time
of the murder, but the former Of whom
tried to excuse his comrade. were
brought before the court. The chief Of
the gendarmerie was charged with
having placed at important posts wild
Albanians who could not even speak
Turkish. Second Lieutenants Ismail
Haiku and Salich Kadri were prose-
cuted because on the way to the Rus
sian consulate after the murder, in
| speaking with SchOolmaster Miscikoff.
they referred to the murdered consul
| in coarse and insulting terms. Tewfik.
a lamp cleaner who before the court
contradicted the testimony of the other
witnesses and declared that the consul
had struck the sentry and had shot at
! him. was charged with perjury
The court-martiaI sentenced Hahn
and Abbas TO death, Seinel TO fifteen
| years and Tew1k to five years penal
servitude- The officers Ismail and Sa-
| Itch We're sentenced to be dismissed
/ from the army. ASSN was acquitted.
| After had signed the judgment it was
read to the accused in my presence.
Were Hanged Immediately.
'Husseen Hilmi Pasha stated that he
had received an order from Constan-
| tinOple to carry out the sentences i'm
| mediately. The two men sentenced 70
! death were hanged today. The dis
missal of the officers from the army
| will take place this evening. The chief
/ of the gendarmerie, the chief general
/ in the gendarmerie for the city of Mon
astir and the captain of the company To
which Hahn belonged have been de
! prived of their commands and handed
over to the judicial authorities An in
quiry has been instituted for the pur-
pose Of discovering who fired at the
consuIs carriage from the military
! bakery"