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A 1907 account gave a different version of the events. It said "Khalifa Sherif preached Mahdism openly at Wad Madani; but he was captured by Captain N.M. Smyth, V.C., and tried by court-martial and shot". A footnote says he lived at Shakaba, forty miles from Sennar, and that the Mahdi's sons Fadil and Bishra were with him, but does not mention their death.