Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-29
ABDUL HAMID IS
PRISONER; TO BE
GUARDED DSAFELY
DEPOSED SULTAN NOT TO BE
PUT ON TRIAL
CONSTITUTIONALISTS WISH TO
GET RULERS WEALTH
American Ambassador Is First to COM
municate to New Monarch Good
Wishes, and Latter Thanks
Minister
[Rv Associated Press.l

800. 49,. 80 - 49,, aI,a,lira abdul
~ -, iii -, 14 - ,,.i.ovar n,
manu. "iii O0 "ep' '' -
a large house with walled groundh' ON
height overlooking Salonika, 1t was
learned tonight. He is not to be put
on trial, as has been widely reported III
Constantinople, for he is considered
above the law.
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II was 'ii0Ne III 10 ,r
posed sultan IN european turkey re-
mote from the capital. His household
will he administered on a generous
aa,o a,a h,s 1ifa ,rn1 be safepuarded
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as he earnestly besought When notined
of his dethronement.
Abdul Hamid, with four wives, five
daughters and two of his younger
sons, two eunuchs and comparatively
large number of female servants, was
taken from the Yildiz palace last nlgnr
and started under an escort to Salonlka-
The constitutionalists want to get the
great sums of money that the former
sultan is supposed to have abroad, not
only because the government needs 1t
but because it is desirable that ne
should be deprived of the resources LOT
another coup d'etat. Speculation places
Abdul Hamid's wealth. at anywhere pe-
tween $25,00O,000 and S20O,OOO'0Oo.
1t was mentioned with pleasure To-Day
at the palace of Mehmed Cnat 'he
American ambassador was the nrsI Oh
the foreign representatives 10 co,i
municate his good wishes TO the newly
proclaimed sultan.
e,,IA,, Thanks Minister
S"''e'' '"a"s
Inc sultan sent ms colilPliiiie'' anu
Tiino tiNo 1,-as i1Iun,inated tonight and
1al iJJotiue ti.is los bolidav court
AiInUusi l.iaI $50 sai' bo1d ond several of the
,l,i,,oi1a1s liz in the mutinv of the troops
were condemned to death. Later they
oit,, and shot
CT 8r,,'ne &c Sahab-ed-Din. the nephew
90 tha s,,Iten who was arrested on
suspicion of having been implicated in
t,.S ~ - hos heen liberated and his
ralaase has caused a good impression.
Tbe bmge snIare inside the ratings
of the war office presented an unusual
eaaaa this efternoon thousands of
soIdio,s of the late garrison were seat
% ,,.rl.,s Iaoged in c0nnanies in a great
- oe,,oiot,.o,a u,h;1e OFFICERS made the
,,,,,,5a a,,d r,iclrad ont those suspected
ne antiva comnIicitv in the mutiny The
men, however. were cheerful. They
49,, nI'n4,t,5 ood s,nolxad and appeared to
tsna,. ttioi, I'd disprace lightly.
oeat ls,,S SnSa, Snhof1,ef Pa sbs. COM
,e .l,o forces in an interview
Illanuei 5 -, e4 ia bis Intention TO purify
tba CanitaI of all subyersiye elements.
He said he would have no halfway
measures, put Mouiu Uor this p,rnose
up lne sl,uatioIl' ia he ,rpionead
the state Oh sleSo WIN ~ ,o,,Id ba
FOR ABOUT d Ii1,i.n, io,, u ,,orte. verv
relaxed IN the European qu"i.0i 'S-'
sooh' ., l. Naeassarv
DePorta''o'' 10
Referring TO the deportation of Abb
dul Hamid, Gen. Schefket said TINS was
necessary in the interest of future
peace.
Alluding to the report that tne Al
banians might attempt to rescue the
former sultan the general said he was
convinced the Albanians would remain
nuiet.
Mehmed V was attending to his
court duties today, receiving various
officials in a plain and unceremonious
,1nnnar Access "a. the palace is easy
and the sultan's conversation is famil-
;ar the whole thing being in striking
contrast with the conditions that pre-
vailed at Yildiz. The absence of troops
et eai tbe nalace is marked and only few
nolicemen are on duty at the entrance.
Carassa Effendi, a member of the
deputation from the national assem-
hi1 which Yesterday conveyed the
faf,,o r. the Yildiz palace, tells of the
dramatic scenes which closed six CEN
tu,;es, dominion of the boundless power
20 the pedishahs.
u 'i'0
Desolation rampant
When the deputation arrived at the
palace the scene was one of desola
tion The investing army had cut off
the water, gas and electric supplies
and had stopped the ingress of food, so
that ali the palace officials were suffer
ing from hunger.
While waiting for the sultan the
members of the deputation carefully
examined their holsters and pistols.
and. according to Carassa, had Abdul
have have been shot instantly.