A FEARFUL DEATH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 304, 14 April 1877, Page 4

A FEARFUL DEATH.

After very many years (says t'tc In Unn Stftntfetrtf) there was an execution at Lucknow, on Tuesday, the 2L*th uft. A Moulvie of some little repute paid the fast penalty of the taw. He was eon vie" cd of a most brutal net of murder, albeit not committed by his own hand, but through means the most revolting to humanity, and was sentenced to death. He kept a small school, and one of the boys who had been absent fur two or three day.*. on coming to school was locked up by him in a small room, in this room a snake had been fonnd some days previously, but was not killed. A little while after the boys incarceration he called out "a snake ! a snake ami implorud the Jl'>;ilvi 4 » to open the door. " Pi*," he »ti(l, * the door, and see f.»r yourself for M'ifiomml Rnssool's sakir open the di*>r." The Mottlvie wo-uiJ do nothing of the kind. At last the poor boy was bitten in several places in tfcie ankle, and fee called out, "P, now that I have been bitten, open the door." The MnnlvW was inexorable —•he would not ojh'U the door. About midday the father of the boy came to the school and e.if|ttired why he had not come home for his usual meal. The 31otth'te said: " I have confined hin» for his absence." " Will," said the father, " release him now."' The door was then opened, and the corpse of a lad 12 years old, the only child of his parents, was; the sad and shocking sight whtch presented itself, with the snake coiled near his neck.