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During the month of Ramadan, many people awaken in the middle of the night for a very early pre-sunrise breakfast called sahur, without which fasting sometimes until 8 PM or later (depending on the time of year) would be nearly impossible. This pre-fast meal is essential to the normal functioning of society and the smooth conducting of social relations during Ramadan that are already strained by widespread hunger, thirst, and craving for cigarettes. Thus, in the absence of alarm clocks, the position of a local drummer (davulcu), who roams the streets at suhur time pounding his drum to awaken the populace, provides a much welcome service.
However, pounding a drum in the middle of the night can have consequences. That might have been the case for a Gypsy man named Hasan who was murdered one Ramadan (Ramazan) night in 1904 by a group of unknown individuals. This telegram explains that in a village of the heterogeneous Elbasan region of modern-day Albania, some unidentified people killed Hasan, who was doing drumming (davulculuk) in that area. With so many potential scenarios, it would be interesting to find the outcome of this case and the motivations to murder such an individual.
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