MURDER OF SIRDAR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 August 1925, Page 9

MURDER OF SIRDAR.

SEVEN MEN EXECUTED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (■Received Aug. 24, 12.10 p.rn.) CAIRO,, Aug. 23. murderers of the Sirdar were executed this morning at intervals of threequarters of an hour. The death sentence on the elder of the Enaiat brothers, whose confession had led to bringing the others to justice, was commuted to imprisonment for life. — Reuter.. [The, tracking down of the murderers of Sir Lee Stack has been a triumph of patience, for it has 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 white man. There is no parallel between the white criminal and the coloured one in the working of their minds, so that those responsible for the arrest and subsequent destruction of these men must have been extremely clever people. It seems necessary; whenever any outrage occurs anywhere, to attribute it to Russian influence, and lately a Bolshevik plot caused numerous arrests in Cairo. Those apprehended included a Russian whom his confreres nickamed “Moscow’s Eye.” The police 1 ascertained that two of the late Sirdar’s murderers frequently visited the Soviet’s representative in Berlin. The nine, men, were: The two brothers, Abd-el Fatah Enaiat, law student, and Abd-el Hamid Enaiat, a student at the training college; two railway shop workers, Ibrahim Musa and Ali Mohammed Ibrahim; a carpenter, Raghib Hassan; an. engineer, Madmud Rashid; a. taxi driver, Madmud Saleh Mahmud; the lawyer and ex-Zaghlulist deputy, Dr Chafik Mansur; and Mahmud Ismail, an official at the Ministry c<f Pious Foundations. The ex-convict, Ixegui Ghel Bawi, the chief agent employed by the secret police in the Sirdar murder investigations, who was largely responsible for the success of the police inquiry, received a reward of £IO,OOO (Egyptian money) offered by the Government for the apprehension of the murderers.]