Staunton Spectator, And General Advertiser Story March 2, 1837

Moorish Atrocity and Punishment.--The Moniteur Algerien relates a horrid affair which took place a few years since in the city of Morocco. One of those dressers of meat broiled in oil, to whom the Moors give the name of Khelia, employed a new method of supplying his customers:

"By offering some money he drew into the most remote part of his house some of those unfortunate women whose object in entering this infernal retreat was of a very different nature. When there, these unhappy beings were instantly killed, and cut into fragments, which were prepared and exposed for sale in the butcher's stall. Eight women had disappeared. At last his own wife having conceived some suspicions, which were soon changed into certainty, went and threw herself at the Pacha's feet, disclosing the atrocious conduct of her husband. Justice was not slow: the butcher was seized, nailed to his own counter, and four negroes, armed with hatchets, were commanded to cut him in pieces slowly, and in such a way that the culprit might behold the fragments of his own flesh come out of a vast boiling cauldron, and be thrown as food to hundreds of dogs collected for that purpose from the different quarters of the city."