A FEARFUL DEATH.

Kumara Times, Issue 184, 7 May 1877, Page 2

A FEARFUL DEATH.

After very many years, says the Indian Standard, there was an execution at Lucknow, on Tuesday, the 29th tilt* AMoulvie of some little repute paid the last penalty of the law. He was" convicted of a most brutal act of: murder, albeit not committed by hid own hand, but through means the most revolting to humanity, and was sen* tenced to death, He kept a small school, and one of the boys who had been absent for two or three days, on coming to school was locked up by him in a small room. In this room a snake had heen found some days butnot killed, A little while after the boy's incarceration he called out '& snake 1 a snake!' and implored the Moulvie to open the door, 'o,' he said ' open the door, and see for yourself—* Mahomed Russool's sake open the door,' The Moulvie would do nothing of the kind. At last the poor boy was bitten in several places in the ankle, aud called out,«O, now that I have been bitten, open the door.' The Moulvie was inexorable—he would not open the door. About mid-day the father of the boy came to the school and enquired why he had not come home for hid usual meal. The Moulvie said: *I have confined him for his absence/ 'Well,'said the father, 'release him now.' The door was then opened, and the corpse of a lad twelve years old, the only child of hiß parents, Wad the sad and shocking sight which presented itself, with the snake coiled near hid neck. '