ARREST OF A '57 MUTINEER.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1023, 6 November 1871, Page 2

ARREST OF A '57 MUTINEER.

We l^^^^^^^^H the capture in the Boi^^^^^^^^^Hf Moulvie Liakat Ali^l^QHMM^^ntineer of 1.857. Since that year he ip^been wandering up and down the country, preaching hostility to the British Government. This ruffian is a native of Mahgaon, the most disaffected village of Chail,the most disaffected pergunnah of the district. v He is a weaver by caste, and in 1857 was by trade a schoolmaster. The excessive sanctity of this bigot had gained for him the respect of hia village, so that on the first outbreak of the rebellion the Mahomedan zemindars of Chail, only too ready to follow any leader, placed Liakat Aliat their head, and marching into Allahabad, proclaimed him the governor of the district in the name of the King of Delhi. His head-quartera were fixed in the Khoosroo Bagh, and there the rebel court was held. Two nine-pounder guns, which had been sent by Colonel Simson the day before . with a party of the 6th Native Infantry to Daragunge, were dragged by the rebels to the gardens and put up inside the gate. For a week the Moulvie were in power. Fires, murders, and rapine filled even the natives with horror, but there was no system t in the outbreak— no concert between the mutineers. The Moulvie headed the Mahomedaps, while the Pragwal Brahmins carried with them the Hindu population. The troopg fought on: theft own account. On the 11th June, Colonel Neill arrived in Allahabad, and assumed command of the fort. On the 15th, a grand attack was made by a party of Fusiliers, Sikhs, and Irregulars on Kydgunge and Mooteegunge, supported by a steamer moving up the Jumna with a howitzer and some riflemen on. board. The rebels were beaten at every pointj and our troops followed them up closely! The terror of approaching punishigeni soon broke up the Monlvie's canm in the Khoosroo Bagh ; and nn the night at the 16th Liakat Ali and all his followers fled, leaving behind them the two gtraa aiid a number of prisoners/ among them* the

brave young Cheek, who died the same evening, his body covered with wounds and sores, and his mind wandering. |Conductor Coleman was also among the Moulvie's prisoners, and died soon after his release, from the wounds he had received in his capture. Meanwhile the Moulvio had escaped ; from the 18th of June, 1857, up to Saturday last, he has been wandering about the country to stir up the people to bring back the old days, when the hold of the British on India was being loosened, and he (Liarkat Ali) was reigning in the Khoosroo Bagh at Allahabad.