Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-13
TWENTY-FOUR
TURKS HANGED
MUTlNEERS EXECUTED BE-
FORE PUBLIC GAZE
FEARFUL oUTRAGES REPORTED
FROM SMALL TOWNS
Details of Awful Slaughter of Ameri-
can and Armenian Missionaries
Revealed by Travellers
and Refugees
IBy Associated Press. ]

ONSTANTINOPLE, May 12.-Con-
stantinople witnessed another batch of
executions this morning when twenty
four mutineers of the army and navy
were hanged publicly in the city limits
This makes a total of 50 executions
within the capital since the revolution
of April Is.
Four of the men today were hanged
near the sultan's palace, eight at the
Marine barracks, eight at the Djinzib
Meidan quarters of STEAMBOAT and four
at the war Office.
Several of the courts martial that
sent these men to death explained the
effect of public hangings by saying that
traditions of corruption so perVaded
Constantinople that had the hangings
not been public, the people would have
thought the condemned men had saved
themselves by bribing officials.
DR.. Christy, in a letter dated Tarsus,
May 4, says no Turks were killed III
Tarsus or Constantinople by the loot
ers fighting among themselves, but
in Adana about $50 Turks, including
fifteen soldiers. were killed The feel-
ing there is still bitter.
1.-THE second massacre at Adana,
writes Dr. Christy, las l now learn,
was much worse than the first 1t is
reported to have lasted two days. Inc
Gregorian school, filled with refugees,
make their escape, were shot down IKE
rabbits
"The rest of those in the school, in
Guiding more than 100 wounded from
the first massacre, were burned to
death Only eight persons survived 10
tell the story"
Dieyad Bey, the dismissed governor
general of Adana, will be tried by
courtmartial, charged with melting the
disorders.
Most of the villages in the vicinity OF
lIarash have been destroyed by the IA
natical Mohammedans, and the villas-
ers are hocking here.
Party Publicly Butchered
Seven Armenian preachers. two dele
gates and three Armenian women
passed through Sis on their way to
the yearly synodical meeting at Adana
the day after the fighting began at
that place. They stopped over night
in the village of Sagh Gachad, some Of
the party with the local governor, and
the others with another of tn elead-
ing men of the village, Hagi Bey.
The next day a party of Mohamme-
dams took the travellers from the houses
where they spent the night and, gather
ing together a number of Armenians
living in Sagh Gachad, until they had
ninety-two in all, butchered all the
unfortunates in the streets of the viii
lage. The women were treated VIC
lently.
The wife of the governor watched the
killing from the balcony of her house.
The bodies of the dead were carted out
to the country and thrown over a cliff.
The Armenian pastor of the church at
Pekke, although left for dead, was
still alive. He recovered his senses
and made his way to Sis, where he re-
lated the foregoing. He had to crawl
wounded, through the fields and woods.
1t has been learned that Rev. George
H. Kennedy of the Irish church mission
at Alexandretta is the man who raised
the siege at Deurtyul. He persuaded
the military commander to assign $50
soldiers to go with him and relieve the
place.
The, beleaguers were quickly dis
persed by the force under Mr.. Ken.
nedy. All the surrounding villages
have been burned. There are 5000 des-
titute refugees in Deurtyul and 1000
here.
There are a large number of Arme-
MAN refugees in Antioch. They are all
women and children, not one Armenian
man having been left alive.
A special dispatch from Salonika says
that Talsat Bey vice president of the
chamber of deputies, who was sent
there to arrange with Abdul Hamid for
the transfer of his fortunes to the gov
eminent, succeeded in obtaining the
signature of the former sultan for the
withdrawal of funds from foreign
banks, but that Abdul Hamid resolute-
1y refused to deliver up the keys to
two iron rooms in the Yildiz kiosk
which had resisted all efforts at for
chile entrance
After Talsat Bey's departure, the
dispatch says, officers of the guard, fu-
rious at the former sultans refusal to
comply with the demand, rushed into
the room and forced him to surrender
the keys without further parley.