SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD.
MEN MEET DEATH BRAVELY
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]
Constantinople, Juno 25
The executions passed off quietly. The scaffold was surrounded by a double cordon of troops. There were two hundred spectators.
The condemned men met their death bravely, with a few short speeches. Mollahs and Dervishes preceded the condemned men to the gallows, intoning prayers for the dead. Each was placed in a coffin wearing a white overall, with a placard attached to the hreast notifying the crime. Crowds afterwards flocked to the square to view the bodies.
"LONG LIVE JUSTICE !"
(Received 10.5 a.m.) Constantinople, June 25. Keazim Bey, who was the first hanged for the murder of Shevket Pasha, shouted "long live Justice! T have done everything willingly, knowing that the end would be the scaffold."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 5
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133SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 5
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