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April 22, 1818
The Rhode Island Republican
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
What is this article about?
Dr. Clarke recounts a bizarre Turkish legal case in Cos where a father is fined 50 piastres for his daughter's rejected suitor's suicide, deemed 'homicide by intermediate cause' because the daughter caused the man's love and despair.
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TURKISH LOGIC.
Dr. Clarke says, the modern laws of Cos, do not reward female chastity, but they discourage in a very singular manner, and cruelly in females, reward their admirers. An instance occurred while one traveller was in the island, in which the fatal determination of a love affair occasioned a trial for what the Mohammedan lawyers decide as "homicide by an intermediate cause." The Case was as follows:
"A young man desperately in love with a girl of Stamboul, eagerly sought to marry her; but his proposals were rejected. In consequence he destroyed himself by poison. The Turkish police arrested the father of the obdurate fair, and tried him for culpable homicide. 'If the accused,' argued they, with becoming gravity, 'had not had a daughter, the deceased would not have fallen in love, consequently he would not have been disappointed, consequently he would not have swallowed poison, consequently he would not have died--but he (the accused) had a daughter, and the deceased had fallen in love,' &c. Upon all those causes, he was called upon to pay the price of the young man's life; and this being fixed at the sum of 50 piastres, was accordingly exacted."
TURKISH LOGIC.
Dr. Clarke says, the modern laws of Cos, do not reward female chastity, but they discourage in a very singular manner, and cruelly in females, reward their admirers. An instance occurred while one traveller was in the island, in which the fatal determination of a love affair occasioned a trial for what the Mohammedan lawyers decide as "homicide by an intermediate cause." The Case was as follows:
"A young man desperately in love with a girl of Stamboul, eagerly sought to marry her; but his proposals were rejected. In consequence he destroyed himself by poison. The Turkish police arrested the father of the obdurate fair, and tried him for culpable homicide. 'If the accused,' argued they, with becoming gravity, 'had not had a daughter, the deceased would not have fallen in love, consequently he would not have been disappointed, consequently he would not have swallowed poison, consequently he would not have died--but he (the accused) had a daughter, and the deceased had fallen in love,' &c. Upon all those causes, he was called upon to pay the price of the young man's life; and this being fixed at the sum of 50 piastres, was accordingly exacted."
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Crime Story
What themes does it cover?
Crime Punishment
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Turkish Logic
Culpable Homicide
Suicide Love
Intermediate Cause
Mohammedan Law
What entities or persons were involved?
Dr. Clarke
Young Man
Girl Of Stamboul
Father
Where did it happen?
Cos
Story Details
Key Persons
Dr. Clarke
Young Man
Girl Of Stamboul
Father
Location
Cos
Story Details
A young man in love with a girl from Stamboul poisons himself after his marriage proposal is rejected by her father. Turkish police arrest and try the father for culpable homicide by intermediate cause, fining him 50 piastres for causing the suicide through having a daughter.