BOUTROS’S MURDERER

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13056, 26 April 1910, Page 5

BOUTROS’S MURDERER

A HERO. Press Association,—Telegraph!—Copyright. CAIRO, April 25. A man has been arrested at Cairo for printing and selling 4000 card portraits of Wardani, 1 who has been charged with the murder of Boutros Pasha, inscribed “The Nationalist Hero.”,

Wardani is a Mohammedan student. Boutros Pasha was murdered on the 21st February last. ■ It is alleged that Wardani fired five shots at the Premier outside the Foreign Office 1 at Cairo. Nationalist literature found ,in .Wardani’s pocket showed that he acted as secretary to the Young Egyptian Congress at Geneva. He declared when arrested that he desired to avenge the Denshawai affair and the prolongation of the Suez Canal concession. Recently eight other persons suspected of being accomplices of Wardani’s were acquitted, to' the great joy of the Nationalists.. ' .