New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-17
MOROCCO RULER
OR IRE EXPERT
Throws Victims to Lions When
ConsuIs Protest.
WOMAN VICTIM FOR MONTH

vIOlvlhU yiOtiHI 1Uu fuONiliI
Mother Of Former Governor Of Fee
Hung by Chains to Tear Flesh Of
Arms, While Hand Is Crushed In
Damp Rawhide-One Prisoner Drag
ged Through Streets In Iron Cage.
The question is being asked in Eu-
rope, and asked with more and more
insistence, how long is the brute who
is now the ruler Of Morocco to be al
lowed to torture and kill his subjects?
To read the well authenticated re-
ports of atrocities perpetrated by this
man makes many shudder and wonder
whether it can really be true that Mo-
rocco is only a few hours distance
from some Of the most celebrated cit
les of Europe. Fresh instances are
continually being brought to light Of
Mulai Hafd's cruelty.
As is well known, the moment he OBJ
tanned the throne he began to mutilate
and torture his prisoners, his proceed
tngs being so abominable that the con-
suls Of the powers at Fee drew up a
collective protest and demanded that
in future all punishments involving
c1utilation or lingering death should
cease.
Threw Him to Lions.
Mulai Hafd's reply was the putting
to death by throwing to lions Of one
Of his prisoners, the pretender, Ell
Roghi, who for weeks previously had
been subjected to torture, physical and
mental, one Of the methods of torture
devised by the sultan being the exhibit
ton Of his captive cramped up in an
iron cage, which was drawn through
the streets.
But this was only beginning. Story
after story Of torture, mutilation and
death has come from Morocco. One Of
the latest Of them is in regard to rela-
tives Of Ben Aissa, the late governor
of Fee, who himself, having incurred
the sultan's anger, or, rather, being an
object Of his cupidity, for the purpose
den treasure supposed to be in Ben
Aissa's possession, was tortured to
death.
The mother Of Ben Aissas wife was
then tortured, and recently she was
discovered, just alive, after upward
of six weeks in close confinement in a
dark cell in heavy letters.
Ben Aissa's wife is believed to have
undergone month of tortures. Per-
sons acquainted with Moorish customs
have been able to gather from her con-
dition what she has undergone. First,
they say, her right hand was sewed up
in damp rawhide, which, by contract
ing. crushed the hand and rendered it
useless. Then she was hung up by
ropes or chains fastened to her fore
arms and wrists, which had to bear
her whole weight, the strain cutting
deeply into the flesh, and her legs and
feet were at the same time chained
Women Expose CrueIties.
Attempts were undoubtedly made to
conceal these cruelties, and the credit
| OF exposing them IS due to the peril
nacity of the two women Of the Fee
medical mission, Miss Mellett and Miss
Denison, who would not be put off
until they had made a medical exam
ination also to the efforts of Nine.
Murat, the wife of French doctor,
and of Mr.. Macleod, the British consul
at Fee.
Six weeks after the fortunes were in
ficted the wretched woman's right
shoulder was dislocated, possibly bro
ken, and much swollen, causing intense
pain. Her right arm hung almost use
less, and the hand was apparently per-
manentiy closed. It showed scars and
unhealed wounds effect of chains
or ropes-and her legs and feet were
| also Scared.
Stassers Skeptlcs.