THE EGYPTIAN MURDER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13740, 23 May 1910, Page 7

THE EGYPTIAN MURDER.

OBJECTIONS TO DEATH

SENTENCE.

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CAIRO, May 21

A sensation was caused in Egypt by the announcement thnt tho Mufti had Addressed a declaration to Wardani s three judges, wherein he refused to sanction the death fentence for three reasons: that revolver wounds were outside Mahomed's definitions of murder, that the victim was a Christian, nnd that IVnitor's relatives did not prosecute. Tae Mufti's appeal to Mahnminedan. passions directly threatens tho Copt->

Wardani's appeal will be heard on

June Oth

Wardani lias been condemned to death for tlio assassination of Boutros Pnsha. the late Egyptian Premier.

The Turkish Grand Mufti, or Sheik-ini'l-Islam, is the head of the great corporation cf Ulema, the interpreters of the Koran, by whose decisions the Cadis have to judge. The chief of the Uletmi is little less powerful than the Grand Vizier.

An extraordinary discovery, says the "Egyptian Gazette," has been made by the police .it Cairo, which shows the fanatical delight of the Nationalists at the assassination of the Prime Minister. Of late some people in a street in the Khalifa quarter of Cairo have been annoyed at the crowds flocking to a house there. It is occupied by a man whose name was mentioned frequently in regard to the Denishwai affair and the recent murder of the Premier. On the night of March 25th the police raided the house, and were astounded at the spectacle which greeted their eyes. A room had been converted into a "Chapelle ardente," and in the middle was a catafalque on which reposed a coffin containing a figure dressed up to the resemble the late Boutros Pasha Ghali. _ . Wax candlee surrounded the coffin in mockery of Christian ceremonies, and around it danced a crowd of fanatijs, hurling imprecations of every kind against the dummy corpse! When the arrival of the police' was observed there was a rush to escape, but the police prevented this and took them to the caracol.