The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-06-28
AN AWFUL FATE.
An Arch Murderer Walled Up in
a Living Tomb
AND LEFT TO STARVE.
A Yelling Mob Sits in the Market Place
and Watch the Building Up of
the Walls Around the SlaY-
er of Thirty.Six Young
Women.

A cablegram from Tangier Morocco,
tells how, with such details OF tiend-
ish cruelty that they cannot be fully
realized, Mohammed Messfewi, the
arch.murderer of Marakesch, has been
walled up alive.
It was this same MesfeWi who was
to have been crucitied for his tremen.
dous crimes-it Is known that he
murdered not fewer than thirty six
young women-and who was saved
from that fashion of execution by the
outcry of the resident foreign officials.
It would have been better had
these same officials not interfered
with Moroccan justice, for MesfeWi
before he died underwent lingering
torture compared with which cruci'
iXion would have been merciful.
THE ARcH.MURDER's GRIMES.
Mesfewi was a cobbler and public
letter writer. Associated with him
In his crimes was an old woman
seventy years Of age named Annah.
Many girls of the city disappeared in
the last days of April and the parents
of one young woman traced her to the
cobbler's shop. Annah was put to
the torture and confessed.
She told that the girls, who came
to dictate letters, were treated to
drugged wine and then beheaded.
Twenty decapitated bodies were
found In deep pit under the shop
and sixteen moro in the garden.
Annah died under the torture and
Mesfewi confessed. By an ancient
Moorish custom he was condemned to
be crucifed.
His crucifxion was set for May 2,
but this form of punishment was
given up because Of the foreign clam
or, and it was announced that Mes
fewi would be beheaded. His death
by the still more awful process OF i'm
murement shows that the Moroccan
authorities blinded the eyes" OF the
foreigners.
Mssfewi was kept in the Marakesch
jail until outside attention was dull
ed, and then, on May Is, his torture
began.
Daily be was led into the market
place and whipped with switches OF
the thorny accacia. The cobbler was
stripped to the waist, and while two
assistants held the victims arms out.
stretched, the city e1scutioner laid
on the spiked rods.
Ten strokes were given each day
and each stroke drew blood. The
number of strokes was kept down be-
cause Mesfewi was an old man and
the people of Marakesch had no idea
of letting him die TOO easily.
MOST MERCIFUL CRUELTY!
After each logging the cobbler's
back was tougnened and anointed
with vinegar and oil, so that be might
be fit for the next days ordeal.
So the daily |hippings went on,
and when it was seen that despite all
care MeBfewi was falling into exhaus
tion 1t was decided to carry out the
supreme sentence. This was that he
be walled up alive In the public
market place.
The currier who brings this news
from Marakesch to Tangier asserts
that the order of execution before the
Sultan's own signature, and the fact
that the sentence was carr.sd out IN
The great square OF the city and In
full view Of the populace shows that
the f1,lals Of Marakesc1 knew the
awful programme would not be inter
fered with.
The DAY Of execution was set foi
Monday, June IL, that being the
Marakesch market day. The news OF
the execution had been spread and
the market place was thronged witt
thousands of Moroccsns, who squat
ted In the blazing sunlight and walt
ed for the ghastly show 20 commence.
A death by walllng. up alive had
not been seen In Marakesch for many
years, bu5 there was those who told
others that victims had been known
sometimes to live for whole week,
and 30 The good news spread, and the
people brought their provisions apo
the caravanseries were crowded.
THE LIVING TOMB IS DUG.
Just outside the jail where MesfeW1
was confined STANDS the chief bazaar
1t has very thick walls and In Cne Of
these, facing the market place, two
nasons dug hole six feet high, two
feet wide and two feet deep. MssfeW
was very thin and these dimensions
gave the doomed man quite free
space and some little air, for just as
IL. s,lo +o,,pouoon would nnE LET