Publishing Seditions Matter.
EDITOR GETS SIX YEARS.
Calcutta, July 23. The jury, by a majority of seven to two, found Tilak Bengali, editor, charged with publishing seditious matter, guilty. He was sentenced to six years transportation and fined a thousand rupees The trial lasted eight days, Tilak’s address occupying six hours. Judge Devar stated that the articles seethed with sedition, preached violence, approved of murders and employment of bombs. The printer of the Gugantar, was sentenced to three years’ iraprisonment/at Calcutta, in addition to a previous sentence of two-and-a-half years for inciting to rebellion and Murder
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43354, 25 July 1908, Page 3
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96Publishing Seditions Matter. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43354, 25 July 1908, Page 3
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