WHOLESALE MURDERS AT BANGALORE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 108, 28 April 1908, Page 4

WHOLESALE MURDERS AT BANGALORE.

The Pioneer Mail, Homuay, of February 14, publishes details oi a terrible scries ot murders which have been recently brought to light in the town of lianga.ore. A gang of live men are under arret, having by their own couiesniuu admitted to a number of gruesome crimes, the victims all being young men. According to the miscreants no tewcr Llmu eight, youths have been dune to death in various parts of the city. In each case the liodics, after being stripped of all valuables, were buried in the courtyards of tn>u»cs or otherwise dispo-ed of, and three graves whicn have been dug up by the police, acting on the information supplied by th e murderers, have becw found to contain the remains of live corpses.

The accused men admit that after they decoyed their unsuspecting victims they gave them poison, then chloroformed them, anil, after removing of two more unfortunate victims. The buried them. Several more mis-ing lads have yet to be accounted fur. The greatest excitement prevails among the | native populace, and the police have to I take special precautions to prevent the niufderer rt being lynched by the infuriated mob.

After the live IkhUcs were iim-sirthoil Hie polite were enabled to take further steps, which resulted ill the discovery of two move unfortunate victims . The accused, after interrogation, conducted ,01110 officials to a house in Cavalry road, situated ill a well-frcqiicnlcd perinaneiit police heat, and pointed out the Moor of a kitchen, under which they stated a hoy was hruieil. (In digging down li feel*the corpse of a youth wa~ discovered, who had seemingly, from th.' position of the liody and the contortion of the limbs, been interred alike. Tin: murderers related that tin- lad was decoyed to the house, and, as usual, do-ed with poison, this time chloral, which not taking effect sulliciently, they tried chloroform. Before the hoy wan sufficiently unconscious the men were di--turlied by n noise in the street, so they hurriedly buried him without tuttinir hi' throat, "after removing all valuables. For the ollicials' inspection, the miscreants produced from a cupboard in the wall a kittle containing chloral mixture, with which tliev had dosed the deceased.

The body wa H " later identified by the parents lis that of their eighteen-year-old son. The murder, it is alleged, wn, committed as far hack a- October !lth. Further investigations arc being made, and the greatest excitement pre vails in the city.