AN INDIAN’S SUICIDE

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1929, Page 8

AN INDIAN’S SUICIDE

FULFILLING BACRED LAW. BERLIN, April 1. Nasar Moluuned killed. Ali Zareem ~1 a Berlin fiat on Friday night. “lie is my blood brother,” cried the murderer when he saw the man lie and shot lying dead. “J. must also snoot myself,” and he put a bulleL .h'rough his heart. Aiiis was the last scene in an Julian tragedy which is not easy for a European to understand! Nasar Mobil nicd came from i a rich Cal’clutta family. Ho arrived in Berlin during die time when the inflation of currency made it easy for the foreigner to make money, and he bought 13 houses. But he did not forget the tradition of his home and summoned from India Llie man to whom he was united i.y what the Indian call b.ood brotherhood. Ine half-rumantie and half-religious .elationship of men who have become Good brothers is regarded as somediing deeper and more sacred than the relationship of the sons of the same uither. it binds the two between ~liom it exists so strongly that the uie and property of the one belongs lo the other

Nasar Jtohaiued out AI i Zareem in charge ol an ex port business which he nad founded. There were Josses, one or two houses had to he sold and it oceanic clear that Ali Zareem did iuh possess the qualities required l'or the uireetion of business.

Perhaps under the influence of his Herman wife Nasar Mohaincd thought of separating himself from Ali Zareem who declared that for the sake of Indian law, which gives him a claim to half of his friend’s property, the bond .mist,be observed. 'l’lie Indian colony in Berlin was anxious that Indian tradition should not lie broken, and approached Proicssor Jjaimr, the\lndian who exercises ..ic greatest influence over his fel-low-countrymen in Berlin to try to reconcile the blood brothers

On Friday Professor Uabar, after talking to each separately, brought the two together. Suddenly Nasar .\lohamuikl lost control of himself, beat Ali Zareem with a stick, and shot him lead as lie wa\s rushing from the room; and then in conformity with ne sacred law, shot himself