The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-31
SULTAN MURAD DEAD.
Long Imprisonment Of Turkeys
"Man Ia the Iron Mask Ended.
DEPosED BY ABDUL HAMID.

Insanity AIlesed-confined For Years
In Cruel Dungeon BY His Unnatural
5rother-5uried With Devoted Moth
err, Who Shared His Captivity
London, Aug. Silt is officially an
nounced from Constantinople that for
mer Sultan Murad y. has died Of d!a
betes. His remains have been interrell
in the Yenidjami mausoleum at Sam.
boul, where his mother is buried.
Murad v. was born in 1S40 and as
cended the throne after the murder Of
the Sultan Abdul Aziz. May 1876 II
July Of that year Murad was placed
under the regency Of his brother. tho
present sultan. ABDUL Hamid H., ami
on Aug 81 be was dethroned.
Outwardly this act was performed
legally by the council Of ministers on
the ground that he was insane Tho
real facts in the case, however will
probably never be known. but it hal
been claimed that ATurad was q. COOL
deal more sane than his brother, an |
one Of tile greatest terrors Of Abdul
Hamed's existence was the fear that
this Turkish Man with the Iron
Mask" as he has been termed, might
escape from his place Of confinement
in the Cheragan palace. About sis
years ago he was removed to the Malta
kiosk, in the grounds of the Yildiz pal
ace. which is surrounded by lofty
walls.
captives Insanity Questioned.
in spite Of the secrecy Of Muradl
removal he was seen by several for
eigners as he passed. who declared tina
though he had aged and was haggart
In appearance he presented the appear
ance of man III the full possession o
his mental faculties.
The confinement Of Murad has beer
OF the cruelist character Only hi
iailers We're allowed to see him, AMI
every precaution was taken to proven
any intelligence of what was going o.
in the outside world from reaching
him. Ostensibly, however. Murad wa
under the charge of General Ria PA
gha. son Of the old field marshal o
that name. who had known Mural
from childhood ana was deeply al
tached to him.
Although Murad Is announced t
have died from diabetes it had gen
orally been understood. according t
| the palace reports, that he was suffer
| ing from tuberculosis.
The dread that Abdul Hamid had Q
the escape Of his brother was only on
Of the sultan's many approximations
He was also continually haunted b
the fact that at any moment the Shell
III Islam, head of the Mohammedai
hierarchy, might be induced by tn
suItan's enemies to declare that Mura
| V. had recovered his reason.
In that case Abdul Hamld's tenure o
the throne would have been ended
The Young Turk party has PERSISTENT
claimed that Murad was sane and tina
he was kept in confinement only to Pre-
vent his recovering possession of tn
throne
In Living Tomb.
Mo- European specialists had see
Murad since 1876. and since his ow
mother. who was allowed to share hi
captivity, died some years age no on
could say with any degree Of certaint
whether he was really still in the Ian
of the living.
The ex-suItan was a Mason Of big
degree. aud when King Edward VII
as Prince Of Wales, was grand mastt
of the Masonic order he was on SCI
eral occasions Appealed 70 by I'll
Young Turks, the revolutionary pa
: ty. to lend his great influence to th
imprisoned ex-sultan's cause. II is b
lieved that the danger Of internationi
complications which these appea
threatened was one Of the chief rel
! sons for King Edwards resigning Il
grand mastership when he ascende
! | the throne