EGYPTIAN UNREST.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1910, Page 2

EGYPTIAN UNREST.

DEATH SENTENCE ON A MURDERER. AN IDLE RUMOUR, [by electric telegraph—copyright.] [per press association.] (R craved This Day, 9.30 a.m.) CAIRO, May 22. A semi-official .statement is published to the effect that the consultation with Mul'hi was a. pure forI'alitv. A sentence cannot be altered unless -tlx; Court of Cessation orders a now trial on legal grounds. [An earlier message stated, that a .sensation had been caused in Egvpl by t'ho announcement that Muflii had addressed a declaration to Wardani's three judges wherein lie. refused to sanction Wardani's death sentence I'ar three reasons. First: the revolver wounds "were outside Mahommed's definitions of murder; second: the victim was «i Christian; and third: that Boutros Pasha's relatives did not prosecute.]