ATTACK ON EDITOR

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 7

ATTACK ON EDITOR

CALCUTTA TERRORISTS

SENTENCES IMPOSED

(Beceived 18th November, 11 a.m.) • CALCUTTA, 17th November.

Sunil Kumar Chatterjee was sentenced to transportation for life; Promode Banjan Bose to ten years' imprisonment with hard labour; Amar Chandra Ghose^o two years with hard labour, while the other three accused, Dutt, Das, and Bakshi,' were acquitted by a special tribunal on charges in connection with the attempt-to murder Sir Alfred Watson, editor of the Calcutta "Statesman."

Two attacks were made upon Sir Alfred Watson in recent months. On sth August he was entering his office when a Bengali youth fired a revolver through a side window, the bullet missing the editor's head by inches. The assailant swallowed poison and died on the way to hospital. At the end ;of September Sir Alfred was wounded while he was driving in his car round the Maidan, a big open space in the European quarter. The assailants opened fire from a ear which drew up alongside Sir Alfred Watson ?s automobile in a lonely spot. Sir Alfred was injured in the. shoulders, his secretary, Mrs. Grose, was hurt in the hand, and the Sikh driver received a wound in the right shoulder. Two of the would-be murderers took poison. and died when they found the police hot upon their heels in an outlying snburb.