SHOT IN COURT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 804, 27 January 1910, Page 3

SHOT IN COURT.

Calcutta, January 25

Shamvulalam, a Mohammedan inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department, who was largely responsible for the discovery of the Midnapur conspiracy, was shot dead in the Pligh Court, Calcutta, while leaving the Court, where the Alipur case was being tried.

A Bengali youth, aged iS, fired a revolver, the muzzle of which was only two inches from the body of Shamvalulam. The murderer then fled into the street.

He was pursued, and threw a bomb at a mounted policeman, but it failed to explode. The murderer was then arrested.

Two attempts had previously been made to murder Shamvulalam. The murder has caused the utmost sensation throughout Calcutta.

The European community declare that the limit of patience has been reached, and demand that new laws be adopted of the utmost severity.

Lord Miuto, in the Legislative Council at Calcutta, alluding to the murder and the progress of sedition generally, remarked : “We have tolerated revolutionary literature too long out of chivalrous unwillingness to interfere with freedom of speech.” He declared he was determined to bridle license.

The Viceroy was heattily cheered from the public and the press galleries, an unprecedented thing. His speech foreshadows a stringent Press Act.