Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-09-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TWO PERSIAN MURDERS.  The Teheran correspondent of a Bom'cay paper gives the following particulars of two sensational cases of murder recently committed there. In one ease a young woman killed her old hssband in a most atrocious manner. The murderess was barely twenty years of age, the victim over sixty. The husband, an old reprobate, neglected his wife, and, taking advantage of his pasition as an odicer of the palace-guard, had numerous intrigues with other women. The wife " became jealous and one evening, after bitterly reproaching her husband, she killed him. She confessed her crime with all details, and was condemned to death. A council was held as to the manner of execution. Some said that the I woman should be thrown headlong from a high I building ; others said she should be buried alive; others that she should be thrown before the lion in the Zoo;ogical Gardens. However, the youth , and beauty of the woman and the great provocation sheereceived must have inflnenced the anthoI rities. for she has been Pardoned and has recovered her liberty.  The other case was much more mnsationaL Prince Ithaleel Mina, a man thirty-five years of age. eon of Nadir Mirza, whose sister is one of the wives of the Shah, went out one evening to see some friends. On his way home he was very drunk, and some policemen arrested him and took him to the house of the Kedkhoda of the quarter. A Kedkhoda is a man with the functions of the constable of English parishes during the Middle Ages. The Kedkhoda, a Syed, descendant of the Prophet. and of good family, being closely related to the former Governor of Teheran. was on the terrace of his house with a woman of bad ' repute. The policeman gave the Prince over to : the prison-warder and went away. The liedkhoda ordered the prisou-warder to chain the prisoner up. The Prince expostulated, the other replied, and much bad language passed. The Kedkhoda then came down from the roof and pushed the Prince into a cell, All this was witnessed by the woman on the roof, by the prison-warder, and by another prisoner then on the premises. The Kedkhoda then sent the prisonwarder and the woman away, and locked the cell in which the other prisoner was. The latter then heard the iiedkhoda going into the cell in I which the Prince was, heard him beating the Prince, who moaned once or twice, awl then all was quiet. Now appeared a fourth witness, a stable-boy. He said that the Kedkhoda called him into a cell, and that he there saw the Prince lying dead on his back. The murdered mane head was held in a /mud (Persian stocks, a heavy log of wood with holes and an iron bar), and his face was disfigured by burns which the Kedkhoda had made with a lamp in order to make it unrecognisable. The Kedkhodsa with the help of the boy, then put the body into a carpet and hid it under a dung-heap behind the wall of a neighbour's house. ._  The relatives of the murdered men, particularly I the women, cried for vengeance, the Nib-i.Sultaneh went off to see the Shah, and the latter ordered that the Kai Abode was to be given up to the family of the murdered Prince. The relatives of the murderer also were not idle, tried to get up a petition to the Shah, and offered bloodmoney to the relatives, as much as 44,000 rupees it is said; but to be before them a number of Princes, father, brother, cousins of the murdered man, forced their way into the War Office compound, and there killed the assassin. Now, the , holy law says that only the heir or next-of-kin is to retaliate, and it is added," Let him not exceed the bounds of moderation in putting to death the murderer in too cruel a manner ;" but here were far-removed cousins of the murdered Prince, one a grandson of the Shah, hacking and tearing the body of the wretched man to pieces, and then dragging the mangled limbs about and burning them with petroleum a number of polite and affable Royal Highnesses suddenly acting like a horde of savages. This way of administering justice did not meet with His Majesty's approval. A good many of the Princes passed a maurais quart d'heure when the Shah had them called up to his country-seat the next day. Two of the young men received • carefully applied bastinado ; two others were exiled to Room. Now everybody ik happy.  To