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SIRDAR'S MURDER.
'3 fi rt tí» Pk i?Í.
TRIAL OF THE NINE, !
PRISONERS^ :-' i;:,;;¡
. DRAMATIC HEARING.'
CONFESSIONS BY EGYPTIAN
. / ( aigPENTS. . A
Cairo, May 27.
.A court consisting .of three judges,
bonan thc trial.of the itin'c meit charg-
ed with being "conccrfled in "the imir
<ler of the Sirdar. i .
Two students, brothers, named
Enait, nervously recounted their parti-
cipation Ih'thccrime. Another prisoner
Mahmoud Kaschcd, broke down and
?wept while repeating his confession.
Five prisoners denied complicity.
Captain Campbell, the late. Sirdar's
Aidc-de-Caínp, describing thc murder,
'said a score of shots were fired, six
almost simultaneously,
..?Thc Sirdar's chauffeur, Marsh, an
Australian, whose bravery at the time
¡of,thc murder was recommended, said
j bc saw three gunmen close to thc car.
j Two others were behind them. A hul
.ict penetrated the door of the car and
''entered Mi log. A second shot went
through the top of.his Topic A third
grazed the hnck of his neck.
An ex-convict named Helbnwi, who
assisted the police to track thc perpe-
trators of the crime, told tho hushed
court- how he gained thc confidence of
thc prisoners and extracted thc story
of thc murder. He induced them to
lice, thus leadjug to their arrest on
the train.
Thc hearing was adjourned.-Ren-*
ter. . .. . ?
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