INDIAN WELL-POISONERS
Severe Punishment fcr SeditionM mgers. Wild excitement prevailed in May at Hasan Abdal, a village near Rawalpindi, in consequence cf a statement that there was no sin h disease as the plague, but that the Government had been despatching emissaries throughout the Punjanb to poison the drinking wells thereby killing ioo,ooo people weekly. The police succeeded in tracing this statement to a Hindu, who has been sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment and fin-d ,{,32. An accomplice, who actually dropped mysterious balls into the wells, alleging that he did so by order of the Government, has been sentenced to eighteen months’ rigorous imprisonment. These reports of well-poisoning by the Government have been in circulation for a long time, seriously menacing public tranquility, but hitherto the police have been unable to discover their origin.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 23 July 1907, Page 4
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135INDIAN WELL-POISONERS Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 23 July 1907, Page 4
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