AN INDIAN MURDER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1285, 28 February 1883, Page 2

AN INDIAN MURDER.

Tub Indian " Chronicle ” gives particulars of an atrocious and wholesale murder which occurred recently in Purneah. It became known to his caste-fellows that one of their number had formed an improper connection with his daughter-in-law, whereupon a meeting was held at which it was decided to put the offender out of caste and fine him 200 rupees. With some difficulty he managed to pay the fine, selling his cattle or a great portion Of them to raise the amount: and in order to get reinstated and restored to favor, he invited the members of his caste to dinner, at which the greater part of the guests were entertained in the " ungham," and the principal men, to the number of seven sat down to the meal inside the house. The doors remaining closed, and no sign* of active life issuing next morning from the house, a forcible entry was effected, and an awful spectacle presented itself to the horrified introders. The seven chief guests were all lying dead, their throats having been cut with a “ kukri," while their treach erous host was hanging as lifeless as themselves from a beam in a neighboring room. The seven unfortunates must have been reduced to insensibility by some drug or narcotic administered in their food or drink, which the donor of the feast probably prepared with his own hands to show his recognition of the favor conferred upon him by his readmission into caste and it is impossible that one man should have cut the throat* of seven others like sheep without having obviated all resistance on their part.