MURDER OF SIRDAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 7

MURDER OF SIRDAR.

EIGHT MEN TO DIE

CHAUFFEUR ESCAPES DEATH. OTHERS REMOVED SHRIEKING. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.i (Received 30.30 a.m.) CAIRO, June 7. Eight of the men found guilty of the murder of General Sir Lee Stack have been sentenced to death. The ninth man. the chauffeur, has been senlenced to two years' hard labour. Many of the murderers were removed from the Court shrieking and struggling. (A. and X.Z. Cable.)

The tracking down of the murderers of Sir Lee Stack has been a triumph of patience, for it lias been necessary for the authorities to examine many hundreds of people of various races and to obtain information that would not be directly given to a whito man. There is no parallel between the white criminal and the coloured one in tbe working of their minds, so that those responsible for the arrest and subsequent destruction of these men must have been extremely clever people. Tt seems necessary, whenever any outrage occurs anywhere, to attribute it to Russian influence, and lately a Bolshevik plot has caused numerous arrests in Cairo. Those apprehended include a Russian whom his confreres nicknamed "Moscow's Eye." The police have ascertained that- two of tlie late Sirdar's murderers frequently visited the Soviet's representative in Berlin. The nine men are: The two brothers. Alid-cl- Fatah Enaiat. law student, and Abd-el Haniid Enaiat. a student at the training college: two railway shop workers. Ibrahim Musa and Ali Mohammed Ibrahim: a carpenter, Raghib Hassan; an engineer. Malimud Rnshid; a taxi driver, Malimud Saleh Mliamud-. the lawyer and cx-Zaghlulist deputy. Dr. •Chnfik Mansur: and Malimud Ismail, an official at the Ministry of Pious Foundations. The ex-convict, Negui C.hel Bawi, the chief agent employed by the secret police in the Sirdar murder investigations, who was largely responsible for tbe success of the policy inquiry, has received a reward of £10,000 (Egyptian money) offered by the Oovernment for the apprehension of the murderers.