ASSASSINATION IN INDIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 133, 3 July 1909, Page 2

ASSASSINATION IN INDIA

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AX A.D.C. AND A DOCl'Oil SHUT DBAS). BY AX INDIAN STUDENT. .Received 2, 11.33, Bombay, Jul> i. After a musical "at home" m Jib uiulent, armed with two lOaded revolv-■■i-h mid a dagger, shot Sir William Ilutt Curzon Wylhe (political aide-de-camp to ilif Secretary for India) dead, and alio shut Doctor Lalcaca fatally. Lalcaca was an Indian I'ariee lat'ily resident in Shanghai. He died almost immediately. f STATEMENT OF AN EYE-WITNESS.*, A DELBEMTE CRIMB. ' J PATIIOTIcTnCIDENTS. Received July 2, 10.60 p.m. London, July 2. The assassin had a card bearing the name "Dhinagri," the address ueing, Bayswater, D. Thorburn, who witnessed the affair, made the following statement to the Daily Mail's representative:— '•The square landing between t!ie hall and the staircase was used as a smoking room. Here I saw Sir William Wyllie ' apparently conversing with ii student wearing a pale blue turliun. The latter drew a revolver and tired four shot* rapidly into Sir William Wyllie's head. The muzzle was near his face when the assassin fired a fifth shot at him. As he fell he tired a sixth. This struck Dr. Lalcaca, who was three yards distant, in the breast. I rushed at the assassin, and unothor made a spring. We seized the assassin, who struggled and wrested one hand free. With this he placed the revolver at nis own head and pulled the trigger, which clicked Uuirmlesaly. A crowd soon gathered. A doctor pronounced Sir William Wyllie dead.

"A stately woman ascended the suitcase, and exclaimed 'Poor fellow,' M she looked at the Englishman'* body, Shq Melt down. Four wounds uisfigured him, Then, horror-stricken, she said, quite quietly, 'lt's 'my husband) why was I not' with aim! I left Mm » few minutes before to fetch a cloak, he following, when U» assassin engaged him in conversation.'"

A native named Krishnavarma, in yesterday's number of the Indiaa Sociologist, wrote ■ " Political, assassination Is not murder.'

The late Sir William Wyllie, who wan til years of age, had been Political A.D.C. to the Secretary of State for India since 1001. He served with the army in the Bcluchistau campaign «ni accompanied the force that relieved Kandahar.