The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-06-29
AN AWFUL FATE.
All 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 Stay.
er of Thirty. Six Young

the Walls Around the Stay.
err of Thirty. Six Young
Women.
A oablegram from Tangier Morocco,
tells how, with such details of .fend-
lsh cruelty that they cannot be fully
realized, Mohammed Messfewi, tho
arch. murderer of Marakesch, has been
wallcd up alive.
1t was this same Mesfewi who was
to have been crucided for his tremen.
dous crimes--it Is known that he
murdered not fewer than thirty six
young wonderland who was saved
from that fashion Of execution by tho
outory of the resident foreign ofioials.
1t would have been better had
these same tmcials not intsrfercd
with Moroccan justice, for Mesfewi
before he died under went lingering
torture compared with which cruci-
fxion would have been merciful.
TIE ARCH. MURDERS
Mesfewi was a cobbler and public
letter writer. Associated with him
In his crimes vas 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
d%rugged wine and then beheaded,
Twenty d~ecapitated bodies were
found In o deep pit under the Shop
and sixteen more In the garden.
Annah died under the torture and
Mesfowi confessed. BY an ancient
Moorish custom he was condemned to
be cruci6ed.
His crucifixion was set for May Q,
but this form Of punishment was
given up because Of the foreign clam
or, and 1T 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.
Mesfewi was kept in tho Marakesoh
jail until outside attention was dull
ed, and then, on May 10, his torture
began.
Daily he was led into the market
place and whipped with switches Of
the Ghorny 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 zach day
and each stroke drew blood. The
number Of strokes wa3 kept down be-
cause MeSfewi was an old nan and
q people of Marakesoh had no idea
5of letting him die too easily.
LOST MERoIFUL CRUELTYl
After each logging the cobbler's
back was tougnened and anointed
with vinegar and oil, so that he might
be tit for the next days ordeal.
SO the daily %whippings went on,
and when 1T was seen That despite all
care Mesfewi was falling into exnans
tion 1T was decided TO carry out the
supreme sentence. This was that he
be walled up alive in the public
market place.
Inc currier who brings this news
from Malakesch to TanRier assert s
that the order Of execution before the
Sultan's " signature, and the fact
Jhat lie sentence was carried out In
Ihe great square or tue city and III
full view of The pupulace shows tina;
Ohe TN OF Marakesc knew tile
AWFUL programme would not be inter
fered with.
The day Of execution was set for
Monday, June IL, that being the
Mar%kesch market day. The ne VIZ or
lie execution had been al and
tue market place vas thronKed with
JhousanGs Of MDrtcJans, who squat.
Ted IN the blaz.I 6 sunlight and wAiL-
ed Tor the RhastIy SHOW TO commence.
a death by waillng.up alive had
not been 9een in MArakesch for raanv
years, but there a. tuOse who told
oGners That victims had been known
sometimes to live for q whole week.
dnd so Jhe good he 10 spread, and the
people brought their provisions and
The CaTavanSeries were crowded,
THE LIVING TOMB IS DUG.
Just outside the al where Mesfewi
confined STANDS the chief bs zAar.
LIZ has very thick walls and In enc OF
these, facing the market place, two :
dug a hole SIX feet high, two ,
'eCt wide and two feet deep. Mssfewl
vas very thin and these dimensions
the doomed man quite q free
pace and some little air, for just as
lls fellow townsmen would not let =
lim slip away by too much nogginp, 7
10 they did not intend to smother !
ilm tCo quickly. q
About Lnree feet up two staples Z
With chains were liked In the back OF =
he recess In the wall and two more !,
taples with chains were attached. !.
me purpose Of these was to keep the i"
lctin erect 80 that he might not a
down out Of sight OF the -
roWd. II
MeSfewi had not been told OF hts \
ATE and when he vas brought OFT of -
prison on Monday morning he y
hought he was being led forth to his y
ally whipping. '
AS soon as he saw the expeotant
thousands, however, and heard their
owls OF hate he know that his day 81
come, Then he gaw the hola dno n