FATE OF PREVIOUS SULTANS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 5

FATE OF PREVIOUS SULTANS.

,rF<W;*ot; the Sultans,'' or. e'ren of their. rola-. tivcs, hare died peacefully.in : -their.'beds, i Amurath, (or: Muradl).was stabbed-by a toldier, and died,in 1389. . Bejazot'l ("Tho Thunderbolt") Was,defeated, by il'amerlano, andtdied .in)prison.' Solyman was dethroned, (1403) by his brother, Musa ; Chelobi, ..who .was Strangled, 1410., .Amurath 111 killed' his' five brothers; their mother,' in; grief,-v : i "stabbed , herself Mahome- '111 strangled /all his brothers, '■ ''and' : drowned:' 'liia father's; \nyes. } 'i Mußtapha I'.-was■ defeated",by. :tho ; Janissaries,-' and . imprisoned.'- . Osintin II was 6hangled..,(l6lß) by..the. Janissaries. : .Then, restored to the throno, MustapKa I was again deposed,; sent "to the .-.'Seven \Towers,: /, and strangled; (1622).; . Ibrahim. ■; was .strangled .by Janissaries, -16-tO; Mustapha -II ! Vas' deposed. Ahmed vIUVaS:-deposed, 'and.-.'died ,in prison.' Selim*lll:wa3 deposed (1780) by the Janissaries.-Mustapha-IV 'was deposed,- and,-with. his. pre-' decessor, Solim,--murdered, : ISO 7. ' Adbul- Aziz was" deposed , in' I May, .1876,' and, died . shortly after. It was .officially stated at-the time; that. 'Abdul ; Aziz' was .insane,'and that' ho committedsuicido -by cutting ■•.arteries in his arm/. Pi-re years aftervfards,- when *Midhat Pasha.'; was in disfavour, .he and . others 'were placed on .trial for, iurdering' tho', deposed It : was thra nroyed 'that;'Mustapha: Fahri;'Boy and ■ .'Hadj Mehmed-were' the actual ajsassinsw' «hd Mnhmoflcl and 'Nonri Pashas, tho Sultan's bro-thers-in-law, Ifidhat' Pasha, and others accomplices.;, -Murad V, i "who - succeeded Abdul Aziz, wa3 deposed, oil the gronnd'of bad : health, irffafr .rfeigning -only .three .months. 'He died in Aug-" tist, -19<M, :from,': tome asserted, /poison. ; Tho late Sultan succeeded'Murat V. He is now a' prisoner, and what his fate will be is at present doubtful. . -. : .