THE SUPPOSED NANA SAHIB.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 184, 11 January 1875, Page 3

THE SUPPOSED NANA SAHIB.

{From the Pall Mall Gazette.) The man who was given up by Scindia as Nana Sahib was sent off on Wednesday by dak, in charge of an officer and four noncommissioned officers, to Agra for Cawnpore. The other prisoner says he wrote the letter for protection to Scindia at the Nana's dictation, and that the Nana signed it, and was sober at the time. A memorandum was found on this man, giving the names of theNepaul officials, and also of our notable officers, which were written at the Nana's dictation to convince Scindia. The Times correspondent at Morar says that Scindia still has the fullest conviction of the Nana's identity. He says that in a private conversation, when the Nana claimed his protection, facts which no one else knew transpired. Colonel Mowbray Thomson also declares that is conviction is unchanged. The correspondent says:—" I have attended a reexamination of the late Rajah's son's wife and of the Nana's nephew, and I never heard more positive evidence. The old man was as clear as before. The nephew said, 'We ate together for twelve years. He is the Nana. I did not know him till he was dressed as a Mahratta chief; but then there could be no mistake.' Dr Tresidder's evidence to the contrary is very indecisive, and does not, as rumored, even refer to surgical marks on the prisoner's person. Scindia spoke without animus or uilkindness, but with modest and dignified firmness, and he, a Mahratta chief, gives up the head of his race. In a despatch, dated November 1, the correspondent says:— There has been a further identification of the prisoner. The political resident thinks that in claiming Scindia's protection the prisoner did not believe that Scindia would dare to give him up in the very heart of the Mahratta territory, and that, after eighteen years of miserable jungle wanderings from Nepaul to Assam, he would find a refuge among his own people. The Mahrattas are greatly excited. I asked whether the prisoner was under the influence of bhang when he confessed to Scindia. The resident replied, "No, I can swear to that; he was perfectly sober." The resident recommends that the final trial shall be at Gwalior, in Scindia's territory, six miles distant from here, and by special commission, which admits no appeal except to the Viceroy, as this would produce a speedy issue. When apprehended, the prisoner threw himself on his face on the ground and said, "For God's sake, don't! " There is no apparent motive for false confession, but a strong motive for a real one. The Viceroy writes to Scindia very kindly; The strongest evidence, so far, is Scindia's, that of the father of the late Rajah's daughter's husband and of the Nana's nephew. This nephew fled from Cawnpore when the mutiny broke out, and was a prisoner for twelve months till his innocence was proved. The other evidence was veiy decisive, and chiefly identifies the scar on the forehead. The Mahrattas are suppos ed to be working very hard for the prisoner. One has just confessed himself "a black mutineer," and I believe him to have some motive in the prisoner's favor.

A later telegram says:—"A cousin of the Nana, and his bitter enemy, has been telegraphed for. He has every reason not to convict an innocent man or to divert attention from the real criminal. A Parsee witness of importance is on his way from Bombay.