TRACKED DOWN BY SECRET SOCIETY

Shannon News, 14 September 1926, Page 4

TRACKED DOWN BY SECRET SOCIETY

Though the attack on the colonel was apparently the result of an accidental meeting, there is reateori to think that he may have been tracked down by one of the' many secret scei* eties in India whose members suspected him of knowing more about their secrets than they liked. Some time ago he made a journey into the hill country in the role of a native student of medicine, and he apparently surprised some of the members of one of these societies, for he was set on one night by a party of armed nien, and only escaped by the timely intervention of an influential Indian whose' life he had saved. It is thought that Colonel Bransbury accidently stumbled on a meeting place of this society, and its members taking it into their heads thar* he was really a political officer sent to find out their *secrets, vowed his death. He himself was convinced that he was followed all the way back to Lucknow, and that the emissaries of the society were never far from iiiß trail until the tragedy came.