EGYPTIAN MURDER PLOT.
RESULT OF TRIAL: By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received March 26, 5.5 p.m. Cairo, March 25. Three of the five plotters, whose trial commenced on March 8, were found guilty, the others being released on the ground that there was inefficient evidence to convict them. The sentences will be confirmed before they are published. A previous cable stated that the trial had commenced of five Egyptians, including a member of Zaghlul Pasha’s staff, oh a charge of conspiring to murder British officers and officials, burn railways and telegraphs. The prosecution added that the accused organised a plot to murder Sarwat Pasha, now Prime Minister, but an accomplice informed the police, who seized the gang and bombs on the eve of the attempt.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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124EGYPTIAN MURDER PLOT. Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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