PERSIA.
A "BRUTAL EXECUTION
United Press Association—By Eleotrio . Telegr*pb—Copyright. TEHERAN, January 28. Mnvakkar Sultaneh, a member of the late Shah's entourage, recently returned to Teheran from Paris, and was arrested for intriguing against the Constitntion. Muvakkar was hanged, but the rope broke. A second roi>e was fetched, and Muvakkar, being subjected to blows from the butte of the soldiers , rifles, attempted to climb the rope, until in five minutes ho became exhausted and died.
The Teheran correspondent of "3%e Times" protests against this bungling and the hrutal spectacle.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13646, 1 February 1910, Page 7
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