Hanging Turks

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 26, 16 August 1890, Page 4

Hanging Turks

In Turkish prisons the Mussulmans end Christiana are kept apart, and the former, a grave and gentleman-like-looking set of men, bask in the •sun most of the day, smoking ; and they perform frequent ablutions at the trickling fouutain in the middle of their; airing yard. They give no trouble, >and ■ wait with the utmost patience uutil it shall^ please Allah to opeu the prison doors for them The Christians, a herd of Greeks, Bulgarians, and Macedonians, with the most villainous faces, " itiorala, and manners imaginable, have to be ruled with a .tight hand to be kept from strangling one another. When it becomes necessary, to hang one of these gentry the" Greek goes to his punishment struggling and howling ; * the Turk makes no more to do about '-tha matter than if .he were going to have his head shaved. As the TurkishTExeheqiier provides no hang,maa or ropes for "executions, some '-curious things occasionally happen. Not long ago a Turk, who had to be hanged at Kird jail, -walked about the town for an hour with two soldiers who h*dbeeu ordered' to execute him. ' These soldiers did not mean to buy a rope wiih their own • money, ,and they had failed to borrow one, stole a rope -and hanged taeir, man from a nail -over the door.