Horrible Atrocities.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 132, 1 May 1890, Page 2

Horrible Atrocities.

; gtiastfy Jj|r of tbe^oold ; blooded murder .o'^a-number of: politi\c|^pmpnejre at Kara has at lastEbeen "confirmed, and out-Herods even the advance whispers. The woman, *Sahida, jwbo, wa^~|epprted to^ haj eppw% pn©4 Iherself^ w£s really i lashed* w death by order of -a brutal and licentious official, whose advances she repelled, , She was a delicately- natured and highly educated lady. Yet they stripped { her naked- ,and ; gave her hundred lashes. ' When released Sabida was dead. Her three .woiuen^ .companions on learning her 'fate' tool:' yoison, feuring v they would share it. All four women v were buried in the -yard of the prison, and the officials kept silence 'on the subject. Somehow or another, howetrer, the news £nally reached^ the thirty male prison-' ers on the* other side' of r the • prison. They had sworn ; |o poison thems^yeS' if Sahida were flogged ; and they did so. ; Fortunately/- or tfofbi't'unately, their groans attracked the attention of the guard. .'Emetics' were administered, and the li^es t of .^U rbut two |aTed. Sahida's inunjer "is beyond dispute, the punishment of I,oo. lashes being entered, , in the prison records. One wonders .how, long, England and. America mean r to.,.iookfpn iii at -thpse atrocities, which it is admitted are of constant .occurrence, ; without.-reiaow-strance. „■■ x^y