BULGARIAN CRUELTY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1069, 16 May 1878, Page 3

BULGARIAN CRUELTY.

After describing the scene-*—the market place—of an execution in Constantinople, a correspondent of a Home paper has this on the criminal:—"For him nothing'could be said, lie was a savage of the worst type. He had confessed his crimes, for it is a characteristic of the Bulgarians that when they are brought face to face with their fate they confess their crimes freely, and, as it were, delightfully. We used to be told that an Indian brave, when he was to the death post, was wont to boast in his death-song of the scalps which he had taken. Just so, throughout this accursed war the Bulgarians who have been captured, and found escape from death to be impossible, signalised their last moments by an almost triumphant recitation of the cruel tortures which they had inflicted on their enemies. The criminal of yesterday was no exception to this rule. He confessed to having violated and subsequently murdered five Turkish girls. He confessed to having killed with his own hands some fifteen or eighteen Turkish children ; he boasted that he and rome comrades had collected the blood of these victims in a pitcher, broke into a synagoge of the village, and forced the wretched Jews who had taken refuge in the synagogue to drink the contents of the pitcher It is possible that the man was of an exceptionally ferocious character, for he was known as Delhi Yovan, or Mad John, and ricknames are not given in this country without good reason ; but in enumerating and boasting of the crimes which he had committed, he merely followed the savage custom of his country."