A Murderer's Fate in Bokhara.
The Russian who shot the son of the Emir of Bokhara's Prime Minister was handed over to the tamily of the murdered man, that they might do with him what they willed. This execution of private vengeance, or domestic vendetta, is among the most ancient and cherished customs of the East. It is the old savage theory of an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. Accounts vary as to the actual amount of torture inflicted upon the miserable criminal in this instance, but it appears that he was horribly mutilated by the male and female relatives of the deceased. He was beaten with sticks and stabbed with knives, and his fingers and eyelids were cut off, and in his semi-moribund condition his body was dragged through the town at the tail of an ass, and then quartered and thrown to the dogs.— Mr Curzon, M.P., in • Manchester Guardian
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 6
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157A Murderer's Fate in Bokhara. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 6
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