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ESCAPED DERVISH RECAPTURED. United Pres» Aeseelatlon —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 18. Ismail Husseyin has been recaptured after hiding in the mountains for fourteen days. He went to a village because he was starving. He was recognised and taken back to Menemen tQ be hanged on the gallows which had been kept standing since his escape. (At the beginning of the month twenty-eight gallows were prepared in Menemen for the public execution Of a number of Dervish Sheiks found guilty of traitorous practices. Ismail escaped, but the others suffered the penalty.).
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18807, 20 February 1931, Page 2
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