MURDER IN LAHORE
POLICE OFFICIAL SHOT ACT OF INDIAN. STUDENTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, December 18. Mr J. P. Saunders, aged 21, the European assistant superintendent of police at Lahore, was brutally murdered while he was leaving his office last night. Two Indian students fired
five < shots at him, and then killed an Indian clerk who attempted to arrest them. The assailants disappeared into a nearby Hindu college, and escaped by another entrance. It is believed that tho crime was revenge for the death of Lai Rajput Rai, the Punjab Nationalist leader, on the same day last month after a clash with tho police during a boycott demonstration against tho Simon Commission.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 4
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114MURDER IN LAHORE Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 4
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