FIENDISH CRUELTY.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 13

FIENDISH CRUELTY.

“I narrate, without any comments.” fayi the Tangier correspondent of ’The Times,' “an -Tncidcnt which took place in the pah.il market-place on Sunday afternoon, at a spot within fortv yards of the French Legation and within 100 yards of the German Legation. and in full view of both. Raisuli’s represent alive here caused a Moor to be flogged by eight men, who, taking each other's pieces as each became tired, bestowed ever 1,039 lashes with a knotted rope upon the back and legs of the victim. After he became insensible, in order to stop the unconscious movements of the body, one of Raisuu s men deliberately stamped on the man’s head, driving his face into the stones, breaking his front teeth, and seriously injuring hi? face. The men remained in a precarious condition. Shortly afterwards a Moorish woman was publicly flogged on the same spot. The man s offence was that ho had failed to carry cut a verdict given against him in the Ciyi 1 Court, over which Raisuli has no jaxisdio tion.”