A FEARFUL DEATH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 784, 27 April 1877, Page 3

A FEARFUL DEATH.

After very many years (says the Indian Standard) there was an execution at Lucknow recently. A Moulvie of some little repute paid the last penalty of the law. He was convicted of a most brutal act of murder, albiet not committed by his own hand, but through means the most revolting to humanity, and was sentenced to death. He kept a small school, and one of the boys who had been absent for two or three days, on coming to school was locked up by him in a small room. In this room a snake hart been found some days previously', but was not killed. A little while after the boy’s incarceration he called out “ a snake ! a snake !” and implored the Moulvie to open the dodr. “ Ob,” he said, “ open the door and see for yourself—for Mahomed Russool!s sake open the door.” The Moulvie would do nothing of the kind. At last the poor hoy was bitten in several places in the the ankle, and be called out, “ Oh, now that 1 have been bitten, open the door.” The Moulvie was inexorable—he would not open the door. About midday the father of the boy came to the school and enquired why it was he had not come homo for his usual meal. The Moulvie said : “ 1 have confined him for his absence.” “ Well,” said the father, “release him now.” The door was then opened, and the corpse of a lad 12 yearsold, the only child of his parents, was the sad and shocking sight which presented itself, with the snake coiled near his neck.