The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-11-03 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE TRIAL OF RISK ALLAH BET.  The trial of Risk Allah Bey has created the greatest excitement during the past week in Brussels. The particulars are, doubtless, fresh in the recollection of our readers, but the following is an outline of the came:.  -- • On the 30th of Much, 1F.435, between the bourn of seen and eight o'clock in the Morning, a young Englishman, named Charles Beefily, wu killed in OU bed at Antwerp by the discharge of • gun. Remaly occupied • room, numbered aeven, on the second floor of the Hotel du bin. and he had for a travelling companion a per•on named Risk Allah, who la deecribed an a native of Lebanon, formerly an officer of the Turkish Army, and subeequentlydomi• cited in London. Immediately after the fatal occurrence Rink Allah was arrested on the charge of having murdered Readly, but was subsequently .et at liberty in conacquense of the report of • ,jelfie d outroc,ion. who attributed the death of the young kngliahman to suicide. Suneequent vestigetions, however, induced the Belgian Government to renew the prosecution of Risk Allah. During the trial • large number of witnesses have been examined.  The following in an account of the latter part of the trial. a. pent over by the apecial corre.pondent of the Daily Telegraph : BRVSSILS, Saturday. There la a tide in the affairs of prisoners standing on their trial for crimes of magnitude, which, taken at the flood, may lead on to •c mittal and when the Presidrnt of the Brunels Court of Anise evoked yesterday from tire gun-makers and a surgeon the admission of ipossiblttty of Really'. having . kill. a himself, the flood time of Risk Allah's dark and turbulent tide did indeed seem to have heen taken for his advantage But to-day that tide has unexpreteety turned ; and the case for the defence has gone less swimmingly than It seemed at first to he going. The opinion of the experts, given with qualifying doubt., has been, In three cases, retracted and the evidence at present Is hot evenly balanced for and against the bare posatbillty that this COU,II have been • Weide and not murder. Two Antwerp gunmakere and M Ciarrin lieutenant de place, hold to the theory that suicide Wag possible : the officer even goes so far se to say that it was in his belief more likely, from all appearanees, than the act of an assitaeln On the other band, Masers Jansen and giontimiy, the tiruseels ronnaken. and Dr, behoppens, the Antwerp surgeon, having re-considered the question, with the help of fresh experiments, decidedly state that the young man could not have destroyed his own life and left snob appearances as were observed at the time when his death was discovered. l'he evidence for the defence wee continued this morning ho the W. 111111100,1 of several letters throwing some light on Itesdlya I ve affair, and on the probable Coo.litiOn of his nile cl In tie first of these 1-tiers his intended mother inlaw reproaches him wirli tot having been frank with her in regard to t.la annual Income, wildh is far iron being 1001.. as he had represented It . and also in regard to the state of his health. as his being subject to epileptic tits would ki an instirm.ontabie ottwarre to his She, thentose, roquab hlm So= ;liressm