A MODERN OTHELLO.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 288, 2 December 1905, Page 13

A MODERN OTHELLO.

■ KING OF ABYSSINIA PUSAIX3 FOR AN " ASSASSIN.-' ■ • . Romance ana strand remln- • S , k Q^ C " 0 ' » the W,rt!cnL-,r 9 sent by a Djibouti! correspondent ot the recent execution of a favourite chief of the Emperor Mene'ik. ■ . R»s Byzance. the dnsky and ca ilant head of 15,000 warriors, married a short time npo the sister of a nelghbourlnc "Ras They Ived happily at Adls-Abeba untU Byzance crew Jeaions of a certain cnlef, and l n thie spirit he one night nrordered his and ~ six servants. Her brother (demanded of , the Supreme Court, that. In accordance 5< with Abyssinian law. ttie assassin -should . be delivered Into bis hands so thft ie. a miplif avenge the"" crime. ". Before the -tribunal," presided <*ver by y the Empecor Menelik himself. Rae B>y zance failed to .prove the lnfldeiity of his L wife. Therefore he Was condemned 'to y Iw handed over to the ylctlin'e brother „ tor «xrcutlon. p Menelik, with trembling voice and jylisa tenlng eyes, -interceded, on behalf of Ras p Bysance. "J ask you," he said, addreeeinr the bro- „ the.r, ",to have mexcy. By ftllllnx :ithe, .. miserable assassin yon cannot call bark h be beloved .dead. him live: .that dprfl 1 „ lie the best revenge. "Loot at him! See the repentance " ~ , his face! I ask your mercy." ' „ But ;thc brother would ,not b«nt. E Kas Byzance was.- taken W the prison ~ Troops hurried into the city to prevent a . rossUilc rising of tlie people. ; Tb R n one .. morning at four o'clock iJas .Bjsqpce . f-ondv.cted by an armed pnard ont of the t ' ity and L delivered into the hands of hip brather-ln-ilaw, .who .clew him.'"• with the; s sword.- -When the • City kwokfe the p«?oplp| [] found the d,ea.d _eft .jjpjs. .Byzance.--and;' . over It the .weeping form of Ras Waldo ; a Geotple, a. near relation .and tfee ifavonrlte'

of .'the L Eniperor!s Court . .