MURDER TRIAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 7

MURDER TRIAL.

THE SHOOTING OF THE EGYPTIAN PREMIER. EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS. By Teleffrapfa—Preaa Association—Copyright. . mi , . Cairo,' April 22. . The trial of Wardany, ai' Mohammedan student, for the murder 'of Boutros Pasha, Egyptian Premier, has commenced. The authorities have taken extraordinary precautions. Tho' Court iB- ; entirely, isolated; . Thousands : - of persons who sympathise with the prisoner have congregated. , THE STORY OF THE CRIME. Boutros Pasha, the Egyptian' Prime Minister, was shot by a student on Sunday, February 20, and died the iollowjng . day. Ho was seriously wounded. ... , 'Tho student awaited the arrival of Boutros Pasha outside the Foreign Ministry. He fired five shots. Two bullets inflicted merely superficial wounds, but three entered the Prime Mmisters.body. These were extracted. -_Th° student, a chemist, _who lives in Cairo, is named Ibrahim Wardany; He acted as correspondent of "El Lewa" newspaper at the Young- Egyptian ■ Congress m Geneva in- August, and also as secretary of the congress. The crime was entirely political. Wheii arrested, Wardany declared that the motive of the crime was his desire to avenge the various Government acts which had been attributed personally to Boutros Pasha for several years by Nationalists. ' .. . ■ The assassin declared that he had no accomplices, and is not concerned, with any secret society. He appeared to revd in his deed. The funeral of Boutros Pasha was most imposing. The procession, which was over half a mile long, passed through thronged streets to the Coptic Cathedra], where a funeral service ivas held, and then to the cemetery, the approaches to which were Lined by Egyptian and British troops, who presented arms as . t-bc procession passed. The whole ceremony lasted three hours. ■ The entire Egyptian press, including Nationalist organs, deplored flie death of Boutros Pasha. All the newspapers expressed horrror at the crime, and published eulogistio ; articles on the late Premier, at the same time manifesting their sympathy with his family in its- great loss. "Tho Times" reoeived the following from Lord Cromer: —"l was for many years associated with Boutros Pasha, atid entertained a verv high opinion of his abilities His death is a great loss to Egypt, for he was certainly tho most, capable of living Egyptian Ministers. I should add that he was an Egyptian in the truest sense of tho term—that is to say, he worked honestly and devotedly in the true interests of his country. A more foul crime was never committed than that which has prematurely closed his career."