A PERSIAN TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6572, 9 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PERSIAN TRAGEDY.

Tiik lias already brought utws of the revolt of the Ixihtiares tribe ayainst the authority (if the Shall i:i the province of I?p;i----han, nuil from a letter in tlie usually «ellinformed Politische Corresponuenz it would appear that the uprising or the Kahtiarcs is ilue to the cold-blooded murder of their chief and his eldest son by the heir to the Persian throne, who is Governor of Ispahan. Prince Vill-es-Soltanes sent for the chief of the I3ahtiaresand entertained him very sumptuously, placing him in the apartment of the palace reserved for his most intimate friends. After tlie old chief had retired for the ni;;ht, three servants of the Prince brought him some cotl'ee, informing him that their master had sent it as a special compliment, and the old chief, who at once saw that he had been betrayed, declared that he would not touch it, and that if the Prince meant to get rid. of him it would needs be by violence. Whereupon the three men fell upon him and strangled him. Soon afterward the eldest sou mysteriously disappeared, and as the Bahtiares naturally attribute this to foul play on the part of the Persians, they are only waiting an opportunity to avenge the death of their two leading men.