AN INDIAN ASSASSIN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 5

AN INDIAN ASSASSIN.

TWO VICTIMS. KILLS AN INDIA OFFICE OFFICIAL. AND A I'ARSEE DOCTOR. ORDEAL OF A DEVOTED WIFE. (By Telesi'apb.—Prcßs AisooiaUon.-OopyriiihU (Rec. July 2, 11.20 p.m.) London, July 2. After a musical "At Home , " at the Imperial Institute last night, an Indian student, armed with two loaded rovolvors and it dagguf, shot Lioutenant-Colonel Sir" William Hutt Cufzoh Wyllio, political aido-de-camp to tho Secretary for'lndia (Lord Morloy), dead. The student also fatally shot Dr. L&lCaca, an Indian Parseo lately resident- ill Shanghai. ■ Dr. Lalcaca died almost immediately. The Shooting and the Struggle. The assassin had a card bearing tho name Dhinagri and an address at Bayswatof. D. Thorbura, who witnessed the assassination, mado tho following statement to tho ''Daily Mail":- - "Tho square landing between the hall and tho staircase is used as a smoking-room. Horo I saw Sir W. H. Wyllio apparently conversing with a student, who was wearing a palo bluo turban. Tho latter drew a revolver and fired four shots rapidly into Sir W.' H. Wyllie's head. "The muazlo was near tho victim's face when the assassin fired the fifth shot at him. As ho fell, a sixth shot struck Dr. Lalcaca, who was three yards distant, in the breast. "I rushed , at the atsa'ssin, and another man sprang at him. Wo seized the assassin, who struggled. Wresting one hand froe, ho placed the revolver to his own head and pnlled tho triggor, which clicked harmlessly." \ A Wffo's Discovery. A crowd gathered, and a doctor pronounced Sir W. H. Wyllio dead. At this stage a stately woman ascended the staircase, and exclaimed,"Poor fellow 1" as sho looked at tho Englishman's body. She knelt down alongside the prostrate , figure, which was disfigured by four Wounds. I Then, horror-stricken, she said, quite quietly: t "It's my husband. Why was I not with ' him I" I Sho bad left him a few minutes before , to fetch a cloak., Ho Was following hot when 1 the assassin engaged him in conversation. J ' "Killing No Murder." Krishnavarma (tho recently disbarred I Indian who patronises English universities I and advocates eedition), in yesterday's I number of tho "Indian Sociologist," wrote:— "Political assassination ia not murder." i' ' % [Liout-Col. Sir W. H. Wyllie was ebty jK-ars of age, Ho was tho youngest son of tho late General Sir William Wylho, and joined tbe lOStk Hegiment L.I. as ensign, i 865. In 186J) he entoied the Indian Staff Corps, eubeeqncntly joined the Ondh Commission, and was transferred to the Political Department in 1879, He served in Beluehistan tmdw Sir Robert Sandeman during tho Afghan War ia 1879'80 r and accompanied. General Gir Rellert Phayre'e force to the relief of 'Kaadahar. Ho wiis decorated in recognition of theee services. Djceated was Military Secretary to the late Efeht Hon. W. P. Adam, Governor of Madras, ill Ilesi; and had held eucCees4rely the appointments of Resident in Nepal, Gevernor-Generare Agent in Ctntral India, and Governor-General's Agent in Rajputana. His post at the India Office in London' he had held since 1901.1