The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-27
AN AWFUL FATE.
An Arch Murderer Walled Up in
a Living Tomb
ND LIFT TO STARVH,

and Watch the Building Up of
the Walls Around the Slay.
er of Thirty.Six Young
Women.
a cablegran from Tangier Morocco,
tells low, with such details OF fend-
ish cruelty that they cannot be fully
realized, Mobapmed MessfeWi, the
srch-murdsrer OF M.rakssch, has been
vailed up alive.
It was this same Mesfewi who was
to have been crucided for his tremen
dous crimes-lt 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 toregin officials.
1t would have been better had
these same officials not interfered
With Moroccan justice, for MesfeWi
before he died underwent lingering
rorture compared with which cruel.
6xion would bave been merciful.
THE AHcH-MURDER's CRIMES.
Mesfewi was 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 tcld that the girls, who came
to dictate letters, were treated to
drugged wiue and then beheaded.
Twenty decapitated bodies were
found In a 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
% cruci6ed.
His cruclfxion 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 ira-
murement shows that the Moroccan
authorities blinded the eyes" OF the
foreigners.
MesfeWi 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 acacia. The oobbler was
stripped to the waist, and while two
assistants held the victims arms out
stretched, the city executioner LAID
on the spiked rods.
Ten strokes were given each day
and each stroke Grew blood. The
QUIZ ber OF strokes va, kept down be-
cause Mssfewi was an old man and
ne people If Marakesch had no 1de<>
Of leGulng nlm ole tco eas;ly.
MOST MERcrFUL CRUELTY!
After e4en hogelng the cobbier's
JACK was ICny .ened and aroiiiteC
WITH vlregar ano oil, 80 that ne migA>
sc fC for Lu- Ee1l Gays otdeal.
So the dsii5 wnjpplcgs went OF
I'd sueD IL was SEN d1al drNp!te &.
CIR. N sieHi ,.as 1elilug lnto t1lsus
5.ou IL was Cecl0eu Gu carry out s,;s
supsens esnL.Lc, Trls sas lh4L q
o. walled up alive IN The puulc
GarEet place.
Tue cu1rler who brings tn. :.a.
:ron Ma:akesch to 1angier asserts
suas the UIuer Of e1ecu .lvn before Lhe
SNtan's oXn signature, and the fac,
mat LIE senteecs nas carried out Ii
me great square OF tue city anI Il
full view OF the populace shows thai
vac IF s.als OF Marakesci knew the
anful programme would not be inter
.ered with.
Ine osy OF execution was set for
Monday, June II, tnat being the
Marakesch market day. The news OF
:he execution had been spread and
tee market place was throneed with
5holsancs of Morccosns, VINO squat
5ed in the blaz.i 6 sual1ght and wsit-
ed for the ghasLly show 10 commence.
A death by wall!ng-up alive had
not been seen in M.rakesch for many
ysars, but there was those who told
others that victims had been known
and 80 the good ness spread, and the
people brought their provisions and
The caravanseries were crowded.
THE LIVING TOMB Is DUG.
Just outsioe The jail where MesfeWi
1as confined STANDS the chief bazaar.
IL has very thick walls and In one OF
;hese, facing the market place, two
nasoLs dug hole SIX feet high, two
eet wide and TWO feet deep. Mesfewi
7as very thin and these dimensions
rave the doomed man quite free
pace and some little air, for just as .
lis fellow toWnsmen would not let ]
lin slip away by too much fogging, ]
o they did not intend to smother q
i'm too quickly.
About three feet rp two staples c
nth chains were liked in the back Of +
he recess in the wall and two more /
taples with chains were attached. q
me purpose OF these was to keep the a
ictim erect so that be might not |,
uddle down out Of sight Of the q
rowd. J
MesfeWi had not been told Of his d
ate and when be was brought oct OF o