A MOORISH SENSATION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1093, 11 May 1883, Page 3

A MOORISH SENSATION.

Some particulars regarding the reported flogging of Jewesses in Morocco has lately r ached this country. The story is probably as disgusting and disgraceful as it well could be, even in Morocc >. It appears that one Joseph Amie'—a Jew, and an officer of the English Vice Consulate at Casaablanca—has two sons, whose dissipated habits provoked,on a recent occasion, mo e than ordinarily angry remonstrance from their father. The young men, roused by the expostulations,and probably threats, in which their excited parent indulged, drew- their pistols upon him and attempted his life. The bullets missed their mark, and the would be parricides were immediately arrested and dragged before the local B vsha in order to receive the punishment they so richly deserved. At the instance of their father, they received each some 601) applications of the bastinado. Had Amid stopped here all would have been well. The bastinado is not a form of punishment which commends itself to English feelings ; but where, ns in Morocco it is a recognised form of punishment, it c uld not be much better applie I than it was in this instance, Amiel was, however, not satisfied. Presuming, evidently, on his po-itiun in connection with the British Vice-Consulate, he insisted on the arrest of eight Jewish women, to whose alleged temptations he ascribed all his sons’ evil habits. The Bisha submissively obeyed tbe behests of the British official. Toe women were dragged for their beds in the middle of th- night, and thrown into prison. The next morning, srill in pursuance of Amiel’s instructions, they were le i out into some public place, and there flogged with revolting barbarity. The details given by the correspondent of the Jewis’i World nre sufficiently horrible, hut we may state that private letters received give still more harrowing accounts. How unmerciful must have been flogging is shown by one shocking circumstance—when the women were carried back to prison one had already become a hopeless maniac.