A WELL FULL OF MURDERED WOMEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 803, 25 June 1881, Page 2

A WELL FULL OF MURDERED WOMEN.

■:;■■■■'-." —-■. '♦ i:-' : • Cairo-has into profound consternati6rif'by7jthe discovery, ofapaling crime, or rather a series of crimesi' perpetrated in tliaVoity by a re> • ligious. reoli\sp,, Shiekh Hamudr Burdft, hitherto enjoying W r ; hlgfi -refutation' for sanctity, and even popularly credited with supernatural,,powers of, 'extraordinary efficaciousness 'irT tlie 'way i:; o/ curing ; femalepatiente.by^ply.spflllsimpartfld to '■ ;'him by the prophet.;'' Women were wont to make -pilgrimages from. all parts of Lower Egypt,tpithe]lio|ise of this supposed saint, in prder'to. solicit his intercession with 4tfon their*belM\ r ) f ' i few weeW ago/the wife of an. .'..'' Egyptian officer- Retook -herself f to the\ r Sheikh's t residence'"for.'! this* fpurpQae, WWhenV ) .had : elapsed,,wkhoufi.^anything^hftving[been ■' seenor.hear.d'6f-.hersince^sh^"en%ed.. Hamudr's doors, "her applied ; ' : tpjthfl Gahjj police i for assistance, and a . rigid searoh was forthwifh infttatuted in ■ : theholy; man's, of the' unfortunate' 'officer'-his'wiffl-B'b'ody r was found, .with'.'several other female corpses, thrust into a huge'cistern stand- : ing'jn''the'BhiekhV : Hamudr Burda,. arcested on the spot and .oonveye'd to prison! [Subsequently confessed to the Cadi that it had been his practice for some time past,.whenever . consulted by a female'with riohi jewels or : r his : 'visitor to take a turnxwith.hunja thenar. ! ;ien,7jwhere;-h\^ •stranglgher.: despoil'nerrremaihsj ! '''and ■: hln Jthem iin&'' tht uM"" ,: probalily .^Hy^^tliia^-tirn'e^iriade. ,-. , an example.ipf this;saintly ■personage by han'gmgfiim''up%front\of ms:6wnhouse '■ : ■■■■■■ : - r ? ■ -h:-. -,<■' - ■• - ....